Noah Lyles Bets He'll 'Wing' His Wedding Vows to Fiancée Junelle Bromfield Like He Did His Proposal Speech
Olympians Noah Lyles and Junelle Bromfield announced their engagement in October 2024
The track and field stars opened up about wedding planning in a recent interview with The Knot
Some wedding details, such as Lyles' vows, may be improvised. Other details, including the theme and music selection, are being thoughtfully prepared
Sprinter Noah Lyles likes to do things on the fly. His wedding vows will be no exception.
While chatting with The Knot for the magazine's cover story published on Tuesday, April 29, the six-time world champion and his fiancée, Junelle Bromfield, opened up about how they're running toward the altar.
The Olympic medalists — who announced their engagement on Oct. 13, 2024 — have begun planning their 2026 spring wedding. However, not all details will be mapped out. For one, Lyles bets he'll "wing" his vows much like he did his proposal speech.
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"I have a bet going on with my brother's girlfriend,' Lyles told the outlet. 'I told her about two years ago that I would wing my vows, and I stand true to that.'
While practicing their wedding vows for The Knot, Bromfield admitted that her fiancé "did good" improvising his proposal speech, but "would prefer if he wrote the vows" beforehand.
"I most definitely will not," Bromfield said of winging her vows. "I get nervous in big crowds, so I need to write my vows."
Lyles and the Jamaican track and field star also disagree about how big their wedding should be.
"The biggest thing that just was not a compromise was probably the size of the wedding," Lyles told the magazine. "I like big weddings, she likes very small weddings."
"If it was up to Noah, we'd probably have like 400 people," Bromfield said with a laugh. "We're only having about 250, so I got the number down a little bit."
Among the wedding guests will be "a lot of Olympians."
"There will definitely be a few football players, basketball players, you know, just people that I've known throughout the years," Lyles said, adding that there will likely be "three tables of Olympians all the way from like the '80s to 2024."
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The wedding will also lean into Bromfield's Jamaican heritage.
"I want to get as many Jamaicans involved as possible — my makeup artist, my dress, everything,' the bride-to-be said. 'One of our wedding themes will be all things melanin, all the shades."
The groom-to-be is most focused on the music selection.
'I'm going to be honest, the reception is definitely going to be heavily influenced by me,' he said. 'I want everybody to have fun and interact with each other. I want the cultures mixing, people taking photos and everybody showing up in their Sunday best.'
The couple, who met in 2017 over DM, additionally plan to honor their deceased loved ones.
'My mom and my brother have passed away, so Noah had this amazing idea to have empty chairs at the front with their pictures on them,' Bromfield shared.
Most of all, they're excited to start their next chapter of life together as husband and wife.
"When I think about spending my life with Noah, I feel very excited because I know there's so much the future holds for us," Bromfield said, with Lyles chiming in, "With the goal being that we grow old together, with great kids and great grandkids."
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