He's put his wedding on hold to represent England in this month's Four Nations league tournament but that's not going to stop Luke Robinson's bride-to-be from celebrating.
While the halfback will be toiling against Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, his fiancee Laura Towler will be entertaining 60 guests
on Cyprus.
With the couple's guests securing travel arrangements for the scheduled October 25 wedding, Robinson said it had been too late to call the whole thing off.
Not that the Huddersfield No 7 had to convince Towler to let him chase his dream of playing for England.
"My girlfriend ... said: 'There's no decision to be made, it's something you've always wanted to do, representing your country, so you've got to go out there and I fully support you'," Robinson said. "She was saying that with tears running down her face.
"It wasn't just the fact that we were getting married, it was the fact that we were flying to Cyprus, and the fact that 60 of my close friends and family had all paid and booked to go out there. They're not going to be able to get the money back either."
Robinson said the hardest person to inform of the change in plans was his soon-to-be father-in-law.
"He ... said to me, 'I'm not going to lie and not say that I'm a little bit miffed, but I support whatever you and Laura decide to do'." It wasn't just wedding plans Robinson was forced to abandon - he'd also lined up a five-day stag do in Las Vegas.
"They all went to Vegas without me," he said. "They said ... it was the best stag-do they've ever been on, even though the stag weren't there."
The couple, who have been together seven years, will marry in England on November 20.
South Sydney star Sam Burgess, one of Robinson's England teammates, praised the halfback's commitment to the cause.
"Good on him," the star back rower said. "To do that shows his commitment to the team and the country."
- AAP
