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Love really did win the game this time. “Love Island: All Stars” champions Molly Smith and Tom Clare, who fell for each other on the very first season of the spinoff back in 2024, have officially tied the knot, and they made sure their fans found out the fun way, with a confetti-drenched Instagram post that sent the internet into a full-blown celebration.
The reality TV couple said “I do” in an intimate courthouse ceremony on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, before sharing the happy news publicly the following day. Molly posted a photo of the pair sharing a kiss under a shower of confetti outside the courthouse, captioning it simply, “Just Married 💍🤍.”
The post raked in tens of thousands of likes within the first hour alone, proof that fans have been rooting for this couple since the moment they coupled up in the villa.
A Courthouse “I Do” With Plenty of Sweet Details
For their legal wedding, Molly and Tom kept things chic and low-key. Molly wore a short white bridal dress paired with white court shoes and a vintage-inspired pillbox hat topped with a delicate net veil, while she carried a bouquet of white lilies.
Tom, for his part, went classic in a fitted black suit and tie, playing it cool while his new wife stole the spotlight.
The couple didn’t stop at one post. They also shared a follow-up carrying the caption “Mr & Mrs Clare,” featuring close-up shots of their wedding rings and an adorable video of the two of them cutting into a small white wedding cake together.
On her Instagram Story, Molly shared another sweet update, writing “Husband and Wife” while tagging her new husband, a caption that had fans swooning all over again.
One particularly touching detail came from behind the scenes. Before the ceremony, Tom’s father sent him a text saying that Tom’s grandparents were “looking down on you with so much love.”
Tom later revealed the message made him cry, a small but heartfelt reminder that even reality TV’s biggest love story still comes down to family.
Fellow Islanders wasted no time flooding the comments with congratulations. All Stars co-star Sophie Piper wrote, “Roll on the big wedding!!” hinting that an even bigger celebration might still be on the way.
“Messy” Mitch Taylor chimed in with “CONGRATULATIONS MY FAVE MARRIED COUPLE,” while Casey O’Gorman, who served as Tom’s best man, kept it simple with “The best day.” Finley Tapp added his own “Congratulations guys!” rounding out a comment section that felt like a full Love Island reunion.
From the Villa to a Dubai Proposal
Molly and Tom’s love story didn’t start easy. Both had previously appeared on the main “Love Island” series, with Molly on series six and Tom on series nine, and neither found lasting love the first time around.
It wasn’t until they both returned for the inaugural season of “Love Island: All Stars” in 2024 that things finally clicked between them, even as Molly’s former long-term partner from series six, Callum Jones, was also part of the same cast.
The pair went on to win that season outright, taking home a fifty-thousand-pound prize under host Maya Jama.
Speaking about the relationship not long after leaving the villa, Molly said she hadn’t expected to find a partner on the show at all. “I’m on cloud nine, I can’t lie. I didn’t go on the show believing I would leave with someone, I had no expectations, coming out with Tom,” she said at the time.
“He’s everything I had been looking for. You know sometimes when you think, ‘Is this too good to be true?’ I don’t like jinxing things but right now I can’t fault our relationship.”
From there, the couple only got more serious, moving in together and eventually becoming co-hosts of the “NearlyWeds” podcast, stepping into the roles previously held by Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo.
Then came September 2025, when Tom popped the question during a getaway to Dubai. He shared photos from the proposal with the caption “SHE SAID YES!!!,” including one shot of him lifting Molly into the air as she showed off her new oval diamond ring, and another capturing the moment he got down on one knee on the sand outside the Burj Al Arab.
The proposal photos spread quickly across social media at the time, giving fans an early glimpse of the celebration that would eventually lead to this week’s courthouse wedding.
Talking about their dynamic as a couple, Tom has previously joked, “She’s stuck with me now,” while Molly has described their connection in similarly playful terms.
“We always say we’re in synch,” she said, with Tom adding that the two are “very similar” and mostly spend their time in good-natured “banter with one another.”
A Bigger Celebration Is Still on the Way
While Wednesday’s courthouse ceremony is understood to be the couple’s official legal marriage, it’s not expected to be the last time Molly and Tom say “I do.”
A larger wedding celebration in Spain is reportedly being planned for later this summer, giving family and friends the chance to celebrate the couple in a more traditional setting.
Sophie Piper’s comment hinting at a “big wedding” still to come only added to the anticipation among fans already speculating about who might make the guest list.
For now, though, Molly and Tom seem perfectly content with their quiet courthouse “I do,” treating it as the first official chapter of married life rather than the finale of their love story.
Between the podcast, the Dubai proposal, and now a legal wedding with a bigger celebration still ahead, the couple has turned what started as a reality TV romance into one of the most talked-about relationships to come out of the “Love Island” franchise.
Part of what has kept fans so invested is how openly Molly and Tom have let the public in on each step of their relationship, long before the wedding bells started ringing.
Through their “NearlyWeds” podcast, the pair have spent months discussing everything from wedding-planning stress to the small joys of building a life together, giving listeners a front-row seat to the lead-up to this week’s ceremony.
That openness has only made Wednesday’s courthouse announcement land harder for the fans who have followed their relationship since the villa days, many of whom treated the post like a milestone in their own lives rather than someone else’s.
It also helps that Molly and Tom’s story reads like something of a redemption arc for both of them. Molly’s previous run on the main series had been defined largely by her long-term relationship with Callum Jones.
This pairing didn’t survive beyond the show, while Tom’s original season ended without the lasting connection he’d hoped to find either.
Returning to the villa a second time as part of the All Stars format gave both of them an unexpected shot at getting it right, and by the time the season wrapped, it was clear their connection was built to last well beyond the cameras.
The couple’s willingness to share the smaller, quieter moments, like Tom’s father’s message about his late grandparents, or Molly’s simple “Husband and Wife” caption, has also set their wedding coverage apart from the usual reality TV spectacle.
Rather than leaning into glamour for its own sake, the pair opted for a genuinely intimate ceremony first, saving the larger, more traditional celebration for later this year. It’s a sequencing choice that fits the low-key, close-knit energy they’ve maintained since their earliest days as a couple.
Two years after finding each other in the villa, Molly Smith and Tom Clare have gone from Love Island winners to husband and wife, with plenty more celebrating still to come this summer.
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