Just In: Katie Boulter reveals wedding day chaos and Andy Murray advice after marrying Alex de Minaur
Katie Boulter is heading into the US Open with a new last name off the court and a lesson learned from Andy Murray on it. The British No. 1 revealed she won’t be wearing her wedding ring during matches, following the same reasoning that once got her fellow Brit into a mess at Indian Wells.
Back in 2021, that habit almost backfired badly for Murray, who used to tie his wedding ring to his shoelaces to keep it close without messing with his grip. At Indian Wells that year, his shoes went missing from under his car, taking the ring along with them.
“Not during matches. I can’t,” Boulter said. “No. I learned from Andy (Murray). I’m not going to do that,” as per Tamara Penn of the Daily Mail.
Both were eventually returned after Murray asked fans for help online, but the episode clearly stuck with Boulter enough to avoid repeating it.
Boulter married Alex de Minaur in a small ceremony on July 12, 2026, in Leicestershire during the final Sunday of Wimbledon, timed so her grandfather, who has dementia, could be there, reported by Tamara Penn of the Daily Mail.
However, Boulter admitted the day wasn’t as flawless as it looked, from a missing button on De Minaur’s shirt to a dress mishap of her own right before she walked down the aisle.
A bigger celebration followed in Tuscany at the Borgo Santo Pietro hotel.
Behind the scenes, the wedding had a few close calls
According to the same Daily Mail report, Boulter opened up about the small disasters that unfolded on her big day. Her brother stepped in to sew De Minaur’s button back on, one of those small fixes she never expected to happen on her wedding day.
Right before walking down the aisle, Boulter felt one shoulder of her dress slip loose, and for a few tense minutes, people around her were digging for safety pins just to hold everything in place.
Looking back, she said she wouldn’t change a thing about how it played out. If anything, having people improvise on the spot like that only made the day feel more memorable, pulling the whole group closer together in the process.
“I wouldn’t change it because there was a lot of (people) thinking on their feet,” Boulter said. “And it bonded everyone even more so. It’s something that we can look back on and laugh about now. So I think it was perfect.”
Then there was the heat. When the celebration moved to Tuscany, an unexpected European heatwave pushed temperatures well past what the couple had planned for outdoors.
Boulter’s form since the wedding has been rockier, with first-round exits in Washington, the Canadian Open and Cincinnati.
She’ll open her US Open campaign against home favorite Carol Lee, most probably without the wedding ring, but with the kind of momentum expected from the British No. 1.
