It's protected to say Maria Shriver was enthusiastic about Patrick Schwarzenegger's wedding ceremony to Abby Champion.
“One minute you're fixing his bow tie, the subsequent minute he's getting married!” Shriver, 69, wrote by way of Instagram on Monday, September 15, alongside a throwback photograph of her placing on her son's tie and a number of other pictures from his wedding ceremony to Champion, 28. “Oh, how time flies as a dad or mum.”
Shriver, who shares Patrick, 31, Katherine, Christina and Christopher with ex-husband Arnold Schwarzenegger, then went on to “congratulate” Patrick and her “new daughter-in-law on their stunning wedding ceremony.”
“I'm so happy with them, of their love, their dedication to at least one one other,” she gushed in her submit. “They're the perfect of buddies, and they're surrounded by nice buddies, loving supportive household, and god.”
The journalist defined how it's a “humbling expertise to observe your child boy develop into a great man and take this large step in his life,” noting that she “wept” at their wedding ceremony on September 6.
“Oh, sure I did, however I used to be additionally bursting with pleasure. I'm grateful to god to be alive and to witness such a wonderful union,” Shriver stated. “I want the newlyweds a lifetime of understanding, love, and ongoing compassion for each other. And magic! Congrats, Patrick and Abby! Love you each at all times and deeply! 👰♀️🤵🏻.”
Lower than two weeks in the past, the White Lotus star and Champion exchanged vows in a lakeside ceremony on the Gozzer Ranch nation membership in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, in response to pictures revealed by the Daily Mail.
In line with a number of shops, Patrick's dad and mom in addition to his sister Katherine, 35, and her husband, Chris Pratt, had been in attendance.
Following their nuptials, Champion shared that Patrick was very hands-on when it got here to planning their wedding ceremony.
“Humorous sufficient, it's extra Patrick's persona to dive into the flowers and little particulars,” the mannequin advised Vogue on Saturday, September 13. “He helped with a lot, which I completely beloved. … I nonetheless can't imagine it's over. All of it flew by like a dream, [and] I'm so excited to start out this subsequent chapter with Patrick.”
Patrick and Champion began courting in 2016 and introduced their engagement on social media in December 2023.

“💍❤️FOREVER AND EVER ❤️💍,” they wrote in a joint Instagram post.
One month later, Patrick revealed that he and Champion had been in no rush to get married.
“We've been collectively [for] 10 years, so it's like we're mainly married,” he stated in a January interview with InStyle. “However we're higher as people collectively than we might be aside. We convey out the perfect in one another. I really feel that I'm the perfect model of myself along with her and I feel she does as properly.”
