Love is within the air (for higher or for worse) on the La Quinta Resort & Membership in La Quinta, California.
Bachelor Nation‘s model new couple ⏤ consisting of Brayden Bowers and Christina Mandrell ⏤ are formally engaged, with the previous presenting the latter with a shocking Neil Lane ring simply moments earlier than The Golden Marriage ceremony on Jan. 4. How wild is that?
After getting engaged to 1 one other in the course of the finale of the inaugural season of The Golden Bachelor, Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist tied the knot on reside tv in an occasion referred to as The Golden Marriage ceremony, which streamed on ABC (with next-day streaming on Hulu and Disney Plus). Seemingly all of Bachelor Nation was in attendance, from the Golden Bachelor women ⏤ together with Susan Noles, who officiated the marriage ⏤ host Jesse Palmer, bartender Wells Adams, reigning King and Queen of Bachelor Nation Trista and Ryan Sutter, and extra.
Claiming to have gotten the blessing of each Turner and Nist beforehand, Bowers and Mandrell certain made a splash with their entry, gorgeous followers of the Bachelor franchise with their determination to get engaged at one other couple’s marriage ceremony. Naturally, viewers took to X (previously generally known as Twitter) to share their true ideas.
For individuals who are unfamiliar with how the pleased couple got here to be, in an unique interview with Bachelor Nation, Bowers admitted that he and Mandrell linked within the early fall ⏤ proper after he had returned from Bachelor in Paradise ⏤ after seeing that she had commented on a few his Instagram posts whereas he was away.
“I didn’t reply straight away, however then I noticed a cute Instagram story of her and her daughter, Blakely, and I responded to her story. I particularly responded to a narrative of her with Blakely, as a result of I wished to subtly let her know that having a daughter isn’t one thing that scares me away. Her being such a very good mother is definitely one thing I’m drawn to, so then we began speaking on Instagram and shortly after we exchanged telephone numbers.”
After exchanging telephone numbers with each other, issues obtained actually severe between the pair.
“From there, we talked like that for every week or two, and we realized we had a lot in widespread and favored all the identical foolish issues, like Tenacious D. She was like, ‘I even have tickets to see them subsequent week in Nashville,’ and requested if I wished to go see them along with her. I ended up shopping for a ticket to go see her, meet her in individual, and go to the present. It was superb! She needed to decide me up incognito on the airport and it was the funniest factor ever. We simply immediately clicked. We had been speaking for a few weeks, however there was no awkwardness in any respect in individual and we simply flowed all the time.”
After the live performance, Bowers and Mandrell dedicated to a long-distance relationship, which consisted of going forwards and backwards to go to one another in California and Tennessee, in addition to FaceTiming each single day. Now, Bowers has plans to maneuver to Nashville to reside with Mandrell and her daughter earlier than tying the knot someday within the close to future.
Whereas it may not have been probably the most acceptable time to pop the query, we couldn’t be happier for Bowers and Mandrell and want them nothing however the perfect. It’s protected to say that we’ll be maintaining with the lovebirds on social media till additional discover for the entire nitty-gritty marriage ceremony particulars.