Good Morning America co-anchor and Alabama native Robin Roberts married her longtime partner in a ceremony in their backyard on Friday.

Roberts wed Amber Laign, her partner of 18 years in front of close family and friends. Roberts’ childhood pastor officiated the ceremony, according to Good Morning America. After the ceremony the couple hosted a reception with an enchanted-garden theme where a violinist performed “Can You Feel The Love Tonight.”

“An intimate, magical wedding ceremony in our backyard followed by a joyous reception…ohhhh the dancing!! We are immensely grateful to all for making it a day and a night to remember,” Roberts said on Instagram. “Honeymoon here we come!”

The brides each wore wedding gowns by designers James Mischka and Mark Badgley. Their dance party DJ was DJ Valentina.

Roberts was born in Tuskegee in 1960. Her father, Lawrence Edwards Roberts, was a Tuskegee Airman. She created a documentary about the airmen in 2021 called “Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage.”

Roberts and Laign were first introduced by mutual friends who set them up on a blind date, according to Good Morning America. Roberts came out as a lesbian in 2013, according to goodhousekeeping.com, which reported Laign is a massage therapist and the founder of a CBD and essential oils brand, Plant Juice Oils.

“Our two friends, my friend Alex, her friend Bert, finally said, ‘Enough, you two are going to meet,’” Laign told “GMA” previously, adding of their first meeting, “I remember just walking up and she’s just beautiful, and she took my breath away, and she still does.”

They agreed to wed spontaneously in a Mexican restaurant in Connecticut where they exchanged calamari rings.

“We took the calamari rings and we slapped them on each other’s fingers and we just we proposed to one another,” Roberts said to Good Morning America. “Now looking back, it was pretty fitting for us to not have a down on one knee [proposal] and one person doing it … it was just us hanging out in our little hole-in-the-wall Mexican spot and putting calamari rings on each other and saying, ‘Let’s go. Let’s do it.’”