Eatons pick up Moscow athletics medals one month after wedding
The 'first couple of endurance events' top their wedding with decathlon and heptathlon 1-2
For their honeymoon, Mr and Mrs Eaton went to Russia.
Once there, the first couple of multi-events turned the world championships into the Newlywed Game, complementing their new wedding rings with a pair of shiny medals.
Not quite matching, but that hardly mattered to Canada's Brianne Theisen Eaton, who picked up a silver medal in the heptathlon. This after watching her husband of all of one month, American Ashton Eaton, capture gold in the decathlon two days earlier. Not to mention watching him claim the Olympic title in London.
Finally, it was her turn to shine. "I've always watched him get his medals and think, 'I wonder what that feels like'?" said Theisen Eaton, who finished 56 points behind winner Ganna Melnichenko of Ukraine. "Now I'm getting a little taste of it."
The Eatons went to the University of Oregon together and were married on July 13. Since then, they've been planning for this big adventure, postponing any thought of their honeymoon.
"The perfect time to go lay on the beach," Theisen Eaton said. "But if we did that, I'd just shut my eyes and in 10 minutes he would go, 'How much longer are we going to lay here? Let's go play volleyball or something'. He can't sit around too long."