When Is Al Roker’s Daughter Leila Getting Married? All About Her Wedding, Fiancé & More
Al Roker is gearing up to walk his second child down the aisle.
Earlier this year, the Today weatherman’s daughter, Leila Roker, announced her engagement to Sylvain Gricourt via Instagram.
“[Eight] years ago, I moved to Paris 🇫🇷, 7 years ago I met my person and best friend 💖, and 2 days ago, that person took me on the most amazing surprise trip to Venice 🇮🇹 to ask me to spend the rest of our lives together 💍 ,” she captioned a March 2 post containing pics from the proposal.
Leila, 26, is the eldest of Al and his wife Deborah Roberts‘ two children, which includes son Nick, 23. Al shares his eldest child, daughter Courtney, 38, with his late ex-wife, Alice Bell. Courtney married her husband, Wesley Laga, in 2021, and the couple welcomed their daughter, Sky, in July 2023.
In an Instagram post of her own, Deborah said that she “couldn’t be happier” for her daughter. “Sylvain has brought steadfast happiness, wonder and most of all, kindness, to your world. We share in your joy today as you begin to plan a bigger life together,” she added. Scroll down to learn everything we know about Leila’s upcoming nuptials.
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Al celebrated Leila’s engagement by sharing pics of the proposal via his own Instagram. “Well, it is now official. @gricourt.thegreat has proposed to my little girl, @leilaroker in the romantic city of Venice,” he wrote. “We could not be happier, and look forward to planning for these two wonderful young folks coming together.”
When is Leila Roker’s wedding?
“We are working on a date, but it’ll be in 2026,” Deborah shared in a May interview with People. “We’re still planning. We’re getting all the details together, so stay tuned.”
Where will Leila Roker’s wedding take place?
On the October 24 episode of Live With Kelly and Mark, Deborah revealed that Leila and Sylvain will have not one, but two wedding ceremonies, per People. “We have to do a small ceremony in France because she lives in Paris,” the ABC News personality explained. “And so they have to do something small there, and I said, ‘Let’s keep it teeny tiny’— and then she wants to come home.”
Kelly Ripa joked that the U.S. ceremony will “blow the budget.” Deborah jokingly agreed, adding, “That’s where we’ll blow the budget. She wants to come home.”
On the show, Deborah noted that the family was in “wedding planning mode,” stating, “We have plans going, and I think we’ve got everything done.”
Who is Leila Roker’s fiancé, Sylvain Gricourt?
Leila works as a freelance journalist and has worked as an Account Manager for FINN Partners Global Travel since March 2024, per her LinkedIn profile. Meanwhile, Sylvain has worked as a Web SEO Content Manager for the Paris-based company Economie d’Energie SAS since May 2021, according to his own LinkedIn profile.
When did Leila Roker and Sylvain Gricourt meet?
Leila moved from New York City to Paris in 2017 to study at the American University of Paris, where she graduated in 2021 with a degree in journalism. According to her engagement announcement Instagram post, she met Sylvain one year after moving abroad, and the two began dating not long after.
Leila shared her first Instagram pic with Sylvain in November 2018. “A couple of pyals,” she captioned a mirror selfie of the two. Sylvain, for his part, has been posting Instagram pics of himself and Leila as early as February 2018.
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What have Al Roker and Deborah Roberts said about Leila Roker’s wedding?
“I’m excited to go dress shopping with her, of course,” Deborah told People in May. When asked whether he plans to walk Leila down the aisle, Al told the outlet, “That’s the plan. I think so. One never knows.”
