Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and Ciara, here at Game 7 of the NBA Finals in Oakland, Calif., last month, reportedly got married Wednesday at a 19th-century castle next to a forest in the English countryside.
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and Ciara, here at Game 7 of the NBA Finals in Oakland, Calif., last month, reportedly got married Wednesday at a 19th-century castle next to a forest in the English countryside. Marcio Jose Sanchez AP
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and Ciara, here at Game 7 of the NBA Finals in Oakland, Calif., last month, reportedly got married Wednesday at a 19th-century castle next to a forest in the English countryside. Marcio Jose Sanchez AP
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“We are The Wilsons!”: Russell Wilson marries Ciara at a 19th-century castle in England

By Gregg Bell

gbell@thenewstribune.com

July 06, 2016 12:11 PM

“We are The Wilsons!”

That’s what Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson posted with a bride-and-groom photo on his Instagram social-media account Wednesday, after he married R&B singer Ciara at a castle outside Liverpool, England.

The celebrity and entertainment outlet E! News reported the ceremony was “in front of close friends and family at the Peckforton Castle...The bride wore a custom Roberto Cavalli dress, designed by the label's creative director, Peter Dundas.”

Not sure if Wilson had a Cavalli suit.

The 19th-century castle is surrounded by 4,000 acres of forest in the Cheshire region of England.

The couple have been a pop-culture hit since they began dating in the spring of 2015. They’ve been conspicuous after Seahawks practices and games, at White House dinners as guests of President Barack Obama and in weekly visits to Seattle Children’s Hospital.

Wilson has been married once before, in 2012. He and Ashton Meem divorced in April 2014.

The newlyweds have three weeks before Wilson is to report for Seahawks training camp back across the pond in Renton.

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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.