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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 23

Love Island Winners Molly Smith, Tom Clare Marry 2 Years After Meeting on All Stars

Updated

Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 23

Love Island Winners Molly Smith, Tom Clare Marry 2 Years After Meeting on All Stars

Q: Beyond the Instagram photos, what private struggles has the Love Island couple faced on their journey to marriage?

Behind the celebratory Instagram posts, Molly Smith and Tom Clare have spoken about a few private pressures during their path to marriage, with Molly’s health issue being the clearest. Molly has publicly revealed that she lives with a hereditary essential tremor, a neurological condition that causes involuntary shaking and becomes worse when she is anxious. She said both she and her father have it, and noted that viewers had already noticed her “shakes” during the Love Island final. As their wedding approached, she admitted nerves could intensify the tremor on the day itself. The couple have also discussed Tom’s seasonal depression as a factor in their planning. It was one reason they chose Majorca for their larger summer ceremony, with the sunnier setting seen as helpful for his wellbeing. Their relationship also grew out of complicated personal histories. Before finding each other on Love Island: All Stars, both had gone through high-profile breakups within the Love Island world — Molly after her long relationship with Callum Jones, and Tom after his romance with Samie Elishi. Entering an all-stars dating show after those splits brought its own emotional baggage, even if it ultimately led them to each other. They have also been open about ordinary but real wedding stress. On their NearlyWeds podcast, they spoke about the pressure of a short engagement and the strain of planning costs, including Tom’s reservations about expensive wedding extras.

Q: After a surprise courthouse ceremony, what's next for the Love Island couple's £10,000 Majorca wedding?

Molly Smith and Tom Clare’s surprise courthouse wedding appears to have taken care of the legal side, while their planned £10,000 Majorca ceremony is still expected to go ahead as the main celebration later this summer, reportedly in August. The pair had already described the registry-office event as their “legal celebration,” which fits with problems they recently discussed on their NearlyWeds podcast about the legal requirement to give notice in the UK. Tom had warned that without completing that process, an overseas ceremony “won’t mean a single thing,” and the date could have been pushed back. By marrying at a courthouse now, they seem to have resolved that issue. What remains is the larger destination event in Majorca: an intimate ceremony for about 70 close family and friends at Son Marroig, a 17th-century clifftop marble temple. The budget has been put at around £10,000, though the couple have joked publicly about some costs, including roughly £4,000 for fairy lights. The guest list is expected to include fellow reality TV names, with Casey O’Gorman set to play a prominent role as Tom’s best man. Sophie Piper, Josh Ritchie, Mitch Taylor and Sebastian Melrose have also been linked to the celebration. So, rather than replacing the Majorca wedding, the courthouse ceremony looks to have formalised the marriage in advance, leaving the Spanish event as the couple’s bigger social and symbolic wedding celebration.

3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jul 23

Molly Smith, 32, and Tom Clare, 26, said they were “just married” in an Instagram post showing the pair kissing as flower petals fell around them.
The wedding comes less than a year after Clare proposed in Dubai in September 2025, with Smith later posting their rings and bouquet captioned “Husband and wife.”
The couple met on the first Love Island: All Stars in 2024 and won the spin-off series, beating Smith’s ex Callum Jones and his then-partner Jessica Gale in the final.
Their marriage extends one of the franchise’s highest-profile recent pairings, with fellow Love Island alumni including Casey O'Gorman, Sophie Piper and GK Barry publicly congratulating them.