Some skating-related news that's not competition related

[Elizabeth]

The Valentine issue of Hello Canada includes all the details about the not one, but two secret marriage ceremonies for Tessa Virtue & Morgan Rielly.

The cover photo

[Elizabeth]

Tessa and Morgan are said to be expecting their first child - this is just one of almost 10 articles (already!) about the announcement based on photos Tessa posted on Instagram: https://torontosun.com/sports/hockey/nh ... irst-child

The article linked above includes this photo which Tessa posted on her Instagram account:

[fred]

Lovely! Congratulations to the proud parents.
Does anyone make little skates for babies?

[Elizabeth]

Another skater wedding - Kirsten Moore-Towers and Liam Firus are now husband and wife.

Kirsten posted a video of their "first dance" at the reception on Instagram and said "Took me ten years but I finally convinced him to marry me "
https://www.instagram.com/p/C8SATG9JBmf

These photos came from other sites:

[Elizabeth]

Another wedding - this time it's US ice dancers, Madison Chock & Evan Bates who were married in Hawaii: https://people.com/olympic-ice-dancers- ... ng-8663677



There were some who expected them to retire from competition but it appears that's not part of their plans, at least not yet.