When is Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon’s wedding? Prime Minister hints at long-awaited date
The race is on for what has been cheekily branded Australia’s “royal wedding,” with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese closing in on his long-promised vows.
As the calendar heads toward December, the deadline the PM and fiancée Jodie Haydon set for themselves is fast approaching, after the pair confirmed earlier this year that they planned to marry before the year’s end.
Details remain tightly guarded, but the working assumption is that the ceremony will take place once parliament wraps up at the end of November and the political year winds down.
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“It’s an event between myself and Jodie,” he said.
Speaking to The Australian Women’s Weekly, Ms Haydon offered a glimpse of what the couple is planning, saying the event would be “small and intimate”.
“(It will be) Possibly outdoors, in the second half of this year, with our family and loved ones,” she said.
“And you can be sure Toto (the couple’s pet cavoodle) will make an appearance.”
No official venue has been named, though attention has inevitably turned to the PM’s two official residences — The Lodge in Canberra and Kirribilli House overlooking Sydney Harbour — as likely options.
The wedding will break new ground as the first time a sitting Australian prime minister has married while in office.
Mr Albanese and Ms Haydon met in 2020 at a Melbourne function, bonding over their shared support for the South Sydney Rabbitohs before their relationship developed.
The Prime Minister proposed on Valentine’s Day in 2024 with a ring he helped design, choosing a balcony at The Lodge as the backdrop, 7News reported.
“We look forward to our version of the royal wedding sometime in the near future,” then-opposition leader Peter Dutton said after the announcement.
Facing reporters the following day, Mr Albanese said he and Ms Haydon “couldn’t be more happy”.
“It is such a joy to be able to share this news with people, and it’s wonderful that I’ve found a partner who I want to spend the rest of my life with,” he said.
Earlier that year, the couple bought a cliff-top home overlooking the Central Coast’s Copacabana Beach for $4.3 million.
Before meeting Ms Haydon, Mr Albanese was married to Carmel Tebbutt, whom he first met through Young Labor in the late 1980s. They share a son, Nathan, born in 2000, and separated in early 2019 after 19 years of marriage.
