Giaan Rooney's romantic country wedding

The Olympic swimmer weds her chopper pilot fiance in a romantic country setting.

If Sam Levett didn’t know how lucky he was to be marrying gorgeous Olympic swimmer Giaan Rooney before their intimate wedding last weekend, he certainly does now. In fact, he’ll be wearing a constant reminder for the rest of his life! “We have this little joke,” Giaan explains. “Sam likes to wake up most mornings, turn to me and say, ‘You’re so lucky’.

“Before our wedding, I told him I was going to get his ring engraved, and he said, ‘It’s not going to be anything cheesy is it?’ I told him he’d have to wait and see.” Sam found out exactly what she meant on the big day. “I felt he needed to have it on his hand, so I had, ‘I’m so lucky’ engraved onto his ring!” Giaan laughs. “It’s his little reminder.” But something tells us her fun-loving, chopper-flying husband already knows just how fortunate he is to have found his soul mate in Giaan. As he stood waiting for his soon-to-be wife to make her big entrance at their garden wedding, he couldn’t wipe the smile from his face. And a good thing, too!

“I told Sam I wanted to be able to see him smiling at me as I walked down the aisle, to make sure he didn’t think he was making the biggest mistake of his life,” Giaan laughs. And sure enough, there was a huge grin plastered on his face. “As soon as I saw him, I couldn’t wait to actually get there and be standing beside him.” For Giaan and Sam, their country wedding, which took place on December 3 at the Seven Creeks Estate in Euroa, a two-hour drive north of Melbourne, was the culmination of their long-distance love story.

When the two met at a mutual friend’s barbecue, the bubbly Channel Nine presenter was busily focusing on her career. Thousands of miles north, Sam was in the process of gaining his helicopter pilot’s licence while mustering cattle at various stations across the Top End. The last thing either of them expected was to fall in love.