Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Sandra Calvert-Lewin married earlier this year
Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Sandra Calvert-Lewin married earlier this year
(Image: Sandra Calvert-Lewin)
Dominic Calvert-Lewin has revealed his emotional reaction after his wife Sandra surprised him at their wedding. Calvert-Lewin’s contract with Everton expires at the end of this season.
The striker has struggled with injuries and form through the Blues' recent years of turmoil on and off the pitch.
Away from the pitch, Calvert-Lewin and Sandra had their first child together in August 2023. Then, in June of last year, the Everton striker revealed he had proposed to Sandra.
They married in March of this year in what appeared to be a low key ceremony at a registry office with only close friends and family members appearing in pictures shared on Instagram.
The couple’s faces were beaming with smiles as they tied the knot. In the accompanying caption, Sandra said: “Civil wedding day one.” She added a white love heart emoji.
In an interview with Vogue published yesterday, the couple spoke at length about their relationship. They revealed they had met at Chiltern Firehouse, a luxury hotel and restaurant in Marylebone, London. Calvert-Lewin was living in Manchester at the time Sandra was in Switzerland.
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Calvert-Lewin said: “It just snowballed from there. We kept meeting up in London. Then Sandy came up to Manchester for a couple of days.”
Sandra joked that she never left from that point. Six months later, she had moved to the UK from Zurich, and they were having conversations about starting a family.
Calvert-Lewin said they had Ahava “pretty quickly”. Their baby daughter, born in the summer of 2023, arrived first, followed by the proposal nearly a year later.
This took place on the last day of their holiday in Sardinia at a private beach. Calvert-Lewin had hidden the ring (a dazzling emerald cut) in his sock, stuffed inside his suitcase, for the entire holiday and had been waiting for the right moment to propose.
He said: “I wanted it to be perfect, and things weren’t perfect. Sandy organises everything, and I’m not a very good organiser. It’s typical that it took me until the last day to get it right!”
The engagement took Sandra by surprise. She said: “I didn’t suspect a thing. We’d been talking about rings, so I thought maybe it could be in the summer… I just didn’t know where or when.”
The wedding itself took place during the international football break in March. It began with a civil ceremony at The Old Marylebone Town Hall, with just the two of them and their parents.
Sandy wore a Chanel dress, while Calvert-Lewin was in a made-to-measure suit from his favourite tailor, Andréa Kọsta, one of three he had made for the weekend. Andréa’s luxury menswear shop is based on Duke Street in Liverpool city centre.
The celebrations with their 60 guests came at The NoMad Hotel, also in London, and it was an emotional occasion. Before Sandra walked down the aisle, she surprised Calvert-Lewin with a pre-recorded message from their daughter.
The message, played out from the speakers, saw Ahava talking about how much she loved her dad. On his reaction, Calvert-Lewin said: “I was crying immediately. I started crying before I even saw you!”
Last month, Sandra shared a series of abusive messages from Everton supporters, including some threatening to kill her and her baby.
Sandra called out the messages directly and said she was reporting them to the authorities. She thanked other Blues who had supported her during this time.