BALLARAT basketball star Braith Cox has slipped effortlessly into the life of a married man.
The transition has been so smooth, he joked, that remembering to remove his wedding ring at training was the only major difference in his life.
"He keeps telling me that he doesn't really need one," said his wife, Angie Hilton.
"But I say, if he won't put it back on, he won't have a wife."
Mr and Mrs Cox spoke to The Courier yesterday after returning from their honeymoon on Thursday.
They married at St Mary's Church, Geelong, on March 12, in a ceremony both knew was inevitable from early in their relationship.
The Ballarat Miner said he was impressed by his wife-to-be, currently a presenter on Coxy's Big Break, when he first saw her in March 2004.
"She was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen," he said.
They began dating shortly afterwards.
He always assumed he would remain calm and unflustered on the big day .
"But it gets quite emotional when your bride's coming down the aisle and you're taking her off her father's arm", he said.
The bride walked down the aisle to Eva Cassidy's Somewhere Over the Rainbow, chosen because "it's a dreamy song about wishing for beautiful things".
The pair tied the knot in front of about 200 guests, including best man, childhood friend and Sydney Swan Jude Bolton, master of ceremonies Steve Moneghetti, and members of Ballarat's basketball fraternity.