The Dallas Wings’ Arike Ogunbowale got married last month in a secret Miami wedding ceremony to her longtime girlfriend, influencer Lala Ronay. Ogunbowale broke the news on Insta.
“Here’s to a lifetime of us,” the All-Star MVP posted with a pic of the pair: Ronay in a classic white gown and Ogunbowale sporting denim.
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Rings repping the wedding and “forever” accompanied the date: “💍♾️ 02.24.26.”
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Ogunbowale’s league mates celebrated the nuptials in the replies.
“Lookkk at yalllll😍😍😍” wrote WNBA 2025 Rookie of the Year, fellow Wings’ guard Paige Bueckers.
Aliyah Boston of the Indiana Fever added an “OMG” and “CONGRATSSS 😍😍😍,” while the New York Liberty’s Breanna “Stewie” Stewart had questions: “Waittt so married in Miami???? omggggggg ♥️ congrats!!!!!!!!!”
The Dallas-based power couple added to their already formidable social media synergy with a selection of pix following the ceremony. Judging from the carousel, the pair kept it simple.
The adorable twosome prance around a Beaux Arts building and hold up their left hands to show off some sparkling platinum bands and an engagement diamond on Ronay’s third finger.
Ogunbowale, 29, and Ronay, 30, have been an item for several years, long enough to post the results of the always-embarrassing couple’s portrait challenge to mark an earlier “together” anniversary.
The gregarious Dallas Wings guard is a four-time WNBA All-Star and two-time All-Star Game MVP. She set an All-Star scoring record of 34 points in 2024.
Influencer Ronay pulls her weight with nearly half a million Insta followers and 300,000 on TikTok for her beauty and lifestyle content.
She followed her wife’s post with a BTS wedding video: “Let’s go marry my best friend,” she gushed in the caption.
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