January 21, 2025 • 29 mins
Today on Happy Hour Brayden and Christina are breaking some major news: they officially tied the knot! The lovebirds shared a very spontaneous and beautiful ceremony, and they are ready to tell our listeners every detail! In part 1 of this 2-part exclusive episode, the newlyweds are getting into everything: the wedding, the lead up to the day, and what's next. Plus, we get the first look at their official Bachelor Nation Wedding Video that you can watch only on BachelorNation.Com! Tune in now and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, welcome back to Battery Happy Hour. I'm Joe and
we are here with some very exciting new some very
exciting guests Bachelor Nation, please welcome the newlyweds mister and
Missus Bowers. Thank you for that, Sarah, congrats. We just
watched your wedding video, which listeners you can now watch
on bachel Nation's YouTube channel. You guys just watch it
(00:24):
back for the first time. How do you feel it
was moved?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, it was just honestly, it was just a special
and amazing and I don't know as as I remember
it like, it was just it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Also with the throwback, like the throw We've had such
a big year, and I think it's been you know,
about a year since we spoke with y'all, but I
mean just so many things have happened, and so that
was really cool to see it all kind of summed up.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Officially, how long have you guys been together?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Oh, well, we were official.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I mean we were in six exclusive the first trip
of meeting each other, so and half.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And how long has it been? And then when did
you meet your daughter? I mean, yes, I'm better from
the beginning the way I phrased that as I was
saying it, I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Like, I got you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It was my it was my birthday. So it was
October nineteenth, two times ago.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Okay, for those listening, you should go watch the video.
You don't have to, but you should go watch the
video before listening to this podcast.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
It's beautiful. It was shot by Blakelee.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yes, so she just turned eight and yeah, so we'll
get into more details about how the wedding happened and
like why we did how we how we did it,
why we did it that way, but just know that
I wasn't we We have like so many professional photos,
even like styled, like we've done engagement shoots where I
was like wearing my wedding dress and actually the dress
(02:02):
that I was wearing at the wedding was from a
photo that we did. So we have these really baller
like photos that we've taken together.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
And so I was like, you.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Know, this is going to be so much less like
style than that. Like we always doing my makeup in
the car from getting our marriage certificate, and I was like,
stuff at Target, I need.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Flowers and eyelashes.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So I was like, I'm not really worried about the
photos because they're going to be so much less than.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
What we've done already.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And for me, but then I was like, wait, no,
I need photos, I need video.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Blakely, can you be for us? And she loves doing that,
so she she took it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Up and and uh that that was her doing and
she loved doing it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I did have her.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
If you've noticed, if you do watch the video, I
noticed that she or if you might notice that she
has switched positions because from the beginning you can see
all the cars in the background, and I'm mid before
we did our kiss, I.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Was like, real quick, can you actually change the other side? Likely?
I really don't want that in the background. So she
did great.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And for me, you got so many cool like like
she said, we did so many cool style shoots. Like
for me, it was like, I don't know, I just
wanted a special moment and it was like I feel
like that's really what we had.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So it was it was really cool. I mean for
me personally, I find I find a video like this
more engaging in photos that are more organic than like stylistic,
you know, photographed photos.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Yeah, no, there's something like super genuine or organic about
the video because it is shot by your daughter, and
it's yeah, it's like kind of it's giving like modern
day camcorder, you know what I mean, Like it's not
an iPhone, but she's like moving.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Around and like now I even feel like professional videographers
will shoot an HD video and try to turn it
into what this is. Yeah right, yeah, like make it.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
You know, like a filter's a filter for that.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
We literally they're gonna call it the Blakely filter.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Blakeley filter. That'll do. Yeah. She was like a smacking
the screen atterwards. She's like a.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Plause so and it was such a switch to from
how she was feeling prior to go out there, like
she was like she was Tommy was actually hurting pretty bad.
Like I picked her up from school and we had
like told her we were getting married that day, like
we had already talked about it. And then like she
was like Tommy really hurts them and I'm like, okay,
we'll just wrap you up in a blanket. And then
we gave her some like you know, some tummy medicine
(04:15):
and by the time she got there, she was like
ready to party.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Yesh, that's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
All right, let's go back to let's go to the beginning.
How did this decision come to be?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yeah, so you get engaged. What was your initial vision
of your wedding?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Okay, so great question. So we got engaged very publicly.
We've spoke on this, but it was you know, I
was so surprised it was I mean, it was just magical.
It was so everything I could have dreamed in more
and public also.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Yes, for those who are listening in case you missed it,
which I'm sure you didn't, but they got engaged last
year at the Golden Bachelor wedding on TV.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
It was beautiful. We chatted with you guys. It was great.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yes, so as far as you know, you guys have
been there engaged. And then the questions are when's the wedding,
when's the wedding? When's the wedding? And so I was
just like, man, I don't know, like we're were. We
moved in right after the wedding. That was the plan,
even before we got engaged. He had his truck packed up.
We were making the drive from California to Tennessee. And
you know that's an event in itself, like moving in together.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I also used to be an event planner, wedding planner,
so I know how much goes into it, and so
I was like, I really want to dedicate time.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So we didn't really hop on like the whole like
let's plan a wedding thing right away.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But once we did, and that's kind of when we
got overwhelmed because it's like my family's all in San Diego.
Her family's kind of scattered, they're in Tennessee, they're in
New Jersey, you know, North Carolina.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
So it's like we have all these people from different areas.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Like trying to find a location that we wanted to
get married and was going to be difficult. And then
when we were looking at like pricing for it and
planning and like, oh, if I invite this person, I
have to invite this person, and then like you know,
we're gonna spend so much time like trying to pick
out flowers and pick out all this stuff, and it
just like we started like doing all this planning and
it really started to feel like the planning was for
everyone else and not really for us. And it was
(06:09):
like when we were thinking about it, it's like, you know,
we're the ones that are jumping into this commitment like,
you know, it's a promise between the two of us,
and you know it's also going to affect Blakely, And
it was like, you know, so the three people that
needed to be there were us three, and it was
like we wanted it to be a special moment that
was just for us and you know, just like our
promise to each other, and you know, kind of just
taking a moment to recognize that. And you know, I
(06:31):
had but I had a couple of friends that, like
I went to their weddings and over the last year,
and like often times I talk to them like, oh, like,
you know, are you so glad you did it that?
Because I was asking, I was like, you know, what
do you think, like should we go and do this
big thing? And they often told me they're like, you know,
it's just they they forgot. Like it was like, yeah,
they just remember like a couple of things about the wedding,
but the whole thing it was just gone in a flash,
(06:51):
and it was like they kind of forgot the whole
event itself and they went back home and nothing really
felt super different. And I don't know if that's the
case for everyone. I know it's not the case for
a lot of people. But like, the thing that was
so amazing is when we got married and the way
we got married. It was like afterwards it did feel
like there was a big difference because it was like
we didn't let.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Like felt the weight of the commitment.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, it was like the amazement in awe of like weddings.
I like, it didn't like take away from people.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Being in town and because we're being on like we
want the guest experience, like if we're doing something like
even if we just have people in town staying with us,
like we just did for Christmas, like we want to
make sure like our un divide attention is with them,
making sure like everything's perfect.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You know, the napkins are Swans and like you know,
little things like that, which I I mean, I know how.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Crazy I get about that, and I know that like
you're the same way too, and so we would probably
be attending to them, and so we love doing that.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
And that's the thing we wouldn't It wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Be it chore, but it's like, okay, well it would
be less about us, and so I don't know, I
love the way we did it.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It was really awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Also, it was twelve twelve, twenty four, so that date
was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Talls one of my lucky numbers. Lucky there, Yeah, that's
one of my roulette numbers. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
When we were talking to the minister because we called
like an on call or dating minister.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Morning, yeah, morning.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
We were actually like running around doing some chores for
this video I had to make, and literally it was
for We'll just go and say it was like for this,
this TV had to be in this video for our
social media and the TV.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
We we hooked it up. We went through all the
process of like.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Hanging it up, and I'm like, we really don't have
to do this right now, Like we have a wedding today,
Like shouldn't we just go get our marriage license because
we hadn't done that yet. We did it day of
and we plug it in. We're like, no, it's just
be nice to get it done. So we plug it
in and it was crap, like the screen had been cracked.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
So then we're like, oh, but oh.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
That was the first We took it down that day.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
We bought a fixed one.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, we took down the broken one and we replaced
the broken one with the new on this we had
to go to.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like different targets around town, Like we went to one
that was ended up being forty minutes away after already
going to several others that said they had that TV
stock to go get that TV.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
This is the day that you were getting married.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
The day up and then yeah, and then we came
back and I was like, okay, so we got.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
It, and he's like, no, this is what I was,
this is what I was remembering.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You were like, we have to put it up right
now because it's gonna be like in my head, is
it cracked also?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
And so he was like, okay, we have to at.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Least again, Yeah, focused on marriage this TV.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
I need the TV to not be cracked for signed.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
For me and had called on call officiants on call
dot com or whatever, and she was like, yeah, just
let me know like where to meet you and what time.
We're like, all right, TVD And then so she kept
texting and we're like putting this TV up and getting
out of the box and it's like huge we're having
I'm like, I just I don't want to sweat. I
need to do my I hadn't done my makeup at all.
That video that's in the video that you guys should
(09:45):
watch is in the beginning of it where we have
our marriage license. You can definitely see I have zero
makeup on, and I was like, what do I wear?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
You know, sweatpants.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It ended up the dress that I was wearing was
from a style shoot we had already done, so I
had no clue what I was gonna wear.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
The jackets from Target, not Spuns or a Target yet
by the way, but.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Most I feel like most people will listen to this
and be like this is crazy, But you are talking
to two people that woke up and got married, like
we were going to get coffee, like we will wait.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
So we got married a year before our wedding at
the courthouse, and.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
We treated it very similarly to you guys.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Like I I had bought some dress from Ritzia that
I owned already, and I was like, I was buy
some white and.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
I'll throw it. And I threw it on. It was
a completely see through.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
So I put on like faux leather pants and like
a card. Again, it's like, really not my best outfit.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I was like dressed to go to the gym after.
I was like, I gotta go to the gym after.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Yeah, it was so nice too.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
That's awesome.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
I didn't know that about your guys' story. That is
so awesome.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I didn't either.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah, when did so? When was the deciding moment when
you you get engaged? You like, you know, we know
how much a wedding is going to be. Let's just
like think on it and figure it out later.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Before keep keep that going. But I just want to
jump in real quick, just because I think it's it's
much more different for guys. So I take me and
Branden out of the equation. But Christina, when you were
a young girl, did you picture did you always want
a big wedding? Because I know that's like a thing.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
The problem is with me having planned hundreds of weddings
for other people and the no, no, no longer.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
But I won't.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I'll urge you to not take Bread out of the equation.
Because he was very excited originally he wanted.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
This, Okay, I got I got excited about like a party.
So I was thinking, we'll have a food truck, we'll
have a man that has was like I'm thinking like
the reception, I'm not thinking the actual like.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
When I'm saying when we're younger, like like as a
boy growing up, I don't picture my wedding right where
I like to, like for a young girl. That's kind
of like a thing no on for me.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
And this this is gonna be sound weird because I,
you know, was on the same show all of us,
all of us were, you know, with our I feel
weird about doing like kissing and stuff in front.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Of my family.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I think as a child, that was always what was
in my head. I'm like, there's no way I'm gonna
kiss in front of my family.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
That's so funny. But over that, this show actually took
that away for me.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah, because I was.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Like, you've seen me like straight up making out in
a hot tub, Like.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
But that's a great okay.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So I have no questions though, I know, like how
did everyone deal with that with their families? I feel
like that's an interesting question, Like where you do you guys,
like don't watch because I told my family, I'm like,
do what you want, I'm not gonna watch it with you,
but like at your own.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I just I was living at home and because it
was COVID and I was like locked in the house
with my family, So I was watching every week with
my parents and my sister. I think I was just
like watching your own risk, Like if you see something
you don't like, like, that's not my fault. Like it
is a dating show and you know that I kissed him,
so like I'll try to warn you of like anything
(13:03):
that may be a little scandy, but like not like
you know, yeah, watching your own risk, and if this
gets too weird, then like we'll watch separately. But I
was more just like let's just not talk about it,
Like let's.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Just keep moving, keep moving. You know.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It's like if you're watching a regular, you know, any
kind of movie, and then something comes on you're like,
just don't address it, Let's keep rolling.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
It reminded me when I watched it with my family
of like when I was a kid, Like how I
used to cover my eyes, Like my aunt and my
mom when they were watching, We're covering their eyes is
screaming like like they just didn't want to see me
kissing anyone. And so it was like super loud in
my house every night that the show aired.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
My parents definitely said it was weird.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
They're like, I've never because not only do our parents
not watch us like make out with people most of
the time, but most I've never for us, at least
the title.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Also, just don't watch you like interact in the early
stages of a relationship, like you're like, they're like if
you're seeing you like flirt with someone, and you know
all these things.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So yeah, absolutely, but now we we never even had this.
I have, I haven't had this conversation with my family.
All I would do after episodes was I just wanted
an assessment on how I came across.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
I looked physically, like how, like how how.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And they would just be like you were great. I'd
be like that's all I needed to hear.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
My family was My aunt was like you're the villain.
You're the villain, and I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
So okay, So.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Taking it back to my question, knowing all the factors
that went into this decision, you didn't want to kiss
in front of your family. You guys are mega hosts,
and you wanted, you know, it to be focused on
you and your love story versus like hosting other people.
What was the turning point of like, Okay, we're doing this,
this is this is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah. Honestly, our Thanksgiving trip, like we went back to
San Diego to see my family for Thanksgiving, and it
was like it was it was an amazing trip.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It was like before I had been totally sold on,
like let's do that, let's go a lope or just
like run away with the with the exception of we
always knew that Blakely wanted to be there or she
would be very upset, and.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
So I was I mean, for me, it was kind
of just like when I went home to see my family,
it was like it was an amazing trip. We had
an amazing time together, and it was just I don't know,
it was so hard for everyone to get into town.
It was so hard for everyone to get together. And
it was like when I was thinking about it, I
was like, it's just gonna be so difficult to arrange it,
like arrange this and make this happen.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
And then not able to spend the time with it,
and then exactly.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
And then not even be able to spend the time
with them.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And so it was like I was enjoying just partying
with my family and partying with Christina and partying with
and it was just like it was so much fun
to have a care free environment where we were just
getting together and celebrating the holidays and just like partying
together and having fun. And it was like, I just
I was like, I don't need the ceremony with all them.
I'll just we'll do a big celebration and we can
have this of just like this care free like environment
(15:51):
and that would be so much more special to me.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
You know what I mean. And so it was like,
I mean, we could have like.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Oh, yeah, this is our anniversary or one year anniversary party.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
But at the same time, it's like, but it's not
necessarily like we're going to be sitting down and you know,
doing our pictures and visits and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
It's going to be just like hanging out and just casual.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We kind of just allowed ourselves to make decision to
be like selfish, and it was, you know, a bit
selfish of us, but yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
We did We did it.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
She did it, I felt.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I mean, it was it was hard to like, I mean,
we we waited till the holidays to tell everyone too,
so it was kind of like, I mean, ahead of time, they.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Knew we were like planning to get married, and may.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Likely didn't really tell anyone either, and then we kind
of just told everyone during Christmas.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Like, yeah, so we got married guys, and they're like, well.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Did you have anyone that expressed frustrations about that or
felt like they got jiffed?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Not I mean not necessarily I think that.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I mean, I mean, according to Christina's face, there was someone.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I mean yeah, yeah, no, I mean no, it was
it was definitely. I mean I understood expected.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Let's it was.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It wasn't it wasn't bad, Like it wasn't like they
were actually upset. They were they wanted to be there.
It was more like it was more like they were bummed.
We waited so long to tell them, which is a
totally understandable. I mean we waited, we waited two weeks
to kind of like share the news with everyone because
in our head we're like, oh, we'll share it on
Christmas and like it'll be special. But so I understand
like that, like I if the only thing that maybe
(17:09):
I might have told him, I might have told him sooner,
because I mean, but we just got so caught up
because life just like you know, but night. Yeah, like
it wasn't like life stopped for us getting married. It
was like we got married and then like you know,
we went right back to it. Like, you know, we
had Blakely has school, she does piano, she does basketball.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
You know, I have my work, I'm going back to school.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Like there's a bunch of things that we got going on,
and so it was just like we just got you know,
we got to have our special moment and we still
got to celebrate it and enjoy between us. But it
was like it was like finding the time to sit
down and call everyone and tell everyone. We just you know,
it got pushed back person yeah, because the last thing
I wanted is like to tell one person and then
have them tell someone else. I was like, okay, when
we call and tell everyone, we have to sit down
(17:47):
and call everyone because if someone else finds out, someone
else is going to be better.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's just one witness you need, right, Your daughter was
that actually.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Didn't need need one. Thought it ten.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Wanted if there if there needed to be one, I don't
think she would have counted as a human.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Well, and we thought we were going to need a
witness too, and we had we had people lined up
to kind of like be there and be witnesses.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
But then we ended up playing.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Our head not like telling them yeah, but we ended
up being good.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
So were you worried at all because you said that
you found your minister on like a random sight online
where you like, damn, hopefully this girl's good.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Like she did a great job honestly.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Like I really loved what she said about like the
hands and everything and your she shows Oh.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Wait, she's Two things that we need to mention is
one about the the in the video you can see
the certificate. And then two that she when she showed up,
she had she recognized him. She's like, do you ever
get the what she's say?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Oh yeah, she one second, guess one second, sorry, my
dog is running around.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
So she shows up, so we called it on call.
We're literally in the target parking line. He's like, well,
let me just search, and he searched it. I'm like
that's not going to work, like I know, word of
mouth or like you know, let's go get a preacher
or something like go and walk into a church or
we'll find somebody. And so he finds this girl. She's like, yeah,
I can do it today. I'll show up there. Yeah,
gives us the price. We're like, awesome, like TVD on
(19:08):
when we're going to be doing it. So so we
ended up telling her we passed by on the way
to get the marriage to be at this gazebo that
we ended up doing it at right now.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
So you just found it like on the way to target.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Well, I mean we passed by it often, but we
were like they had put red bows on it for
Christmas and I'm like, that looks thick.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Let's get there.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh, so you didn't have that, You didn't have that
spot like pre planned like a week prior.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
He knew that so ahead of time.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
So when when we went home.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
As soon as we're like hey, as soon as we
got back from the trip, we're like, hey, we want
to get there, like let's do this thing that we.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Kind of like on this trail like maybe there.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, We're like we're like but we were in our head,
We're like, we just want to get married. Let's sit
down and like let's actually talk about just getting married.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Where are you guys from. There's there's this patch on
this trail that we like it there.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
It's actually a cute bench.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's like so there's like this park trail and there's
this single red bench and like oftentimes I'll go on
walks and I'll walk over there and there's like cardinals
that are flying around, and it's like it's so cool
because it's the only red in the entire area.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah, like half a mile walk for the poor woman
to cut. Like we too were like no, probably not
so anyway, we see the gazebo or like this is
that's how we find it. So anyway, so we're it's
kind of a walk from even where we parked. Anyways,
and so play back the video. And I didn't know
this until yesterday. I was yesterday years old. You're like, oh,
you got it on video. I'm like, got one on video.
(20:28):
The marriage certificate had fallen out of his back pocket
while he was carrying Blakely to the gazebo, and I
was just like videoing him walking and you could see
it like right there on the ground plane his day.
And I didn't realize this this had even happened. And
so when the woman had walked up, she walks up,
she's like, hey, do you guys need this? So she
had picked it up and found it.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
No way, that is really lucky. That could have fully
blown away for sure.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
And so then I mean she knew your name.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Maybe she was just saying it that way, but she said,
do you ever get or maybe she didn't.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Know break, No, she didn't know who I was.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
So she was she knew your.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Name, but she didn't know the guy from the show's
name or something.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, well she knew my name, but she didn't know
the guy from the show's name. And so she's like,
she's like, have you ever gotten it that you look
like the guy from the bachelor's show, like from Paradise
he wore those crazy earrings. She's like, I mean, you
have earrings, but you're not wearing like you're just wearing
studs right now.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
You're not wearing like crazy ones.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
And I'm like, like, are you teasing me right now?
And she's like, no, what do you mean.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'm like, well that was me and she's like and
then she was like, I get to marry you guys,
and I'm like, well, I know she had done like
married at first night.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Which we had no clue when when they were in Nashville.
So yeah, she was like, I know what to do,
Like she got it and she.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
And she did amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
She made it, so I mean it was like even
what she wrote, yeah, it was funny. She She's like,
can we get a picture and I'm like, we're like yeah,
We're like and she's like, don't worry, I won't post it.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
She's like, this is just for me, and so it
was actually it was really cool.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
And then like when she went to drop off the
marriage certificate, she sent us a picture like it's official, guys,
and so it was just it was really cool.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yeah, that worked out.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
So when you were walking to the gazebo with Blakely,
did you know at in that moment that she was
gonna film it or was that a I do that
all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, she is so Christina, And I think that people
need to understand this. So growing up Christina because her
mom would be.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
On the road often like three hundred days of the
year when I was growing up, So I had like
a Kelly, my babysitter that lived with us. She was
like her assignment was video cameracord Christina. So the mom
can watch it and have these videos. And so it's
twenty first time I'll be like video of me and
I'll be like dancing.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
It's like, hey, look at me. You know how everyone's
like kids are like look at me, look at me.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Do this. It's like and so yes, such me all
the time now and it's it's.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
So cute, but it's like, I mean, you guys would
have to see, like we have, there's boxes of like
film footage that she has from her growing up and
so it's like.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Blakely it's like anything. I'm like, oh my god, that's
cereal you're eating.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It's so cute.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And it's like so she like she literally records everything.
So for me, it's like, you know, it wasn't like
a lot of times the video. She records it just
for her, you know what I mean. Like again, like
she wants to save these special moments that she can
go and look back, and like we can go and
look back together.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
So it's like in that moment, it was like, oh,
she's like, I do want to get a recording.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
She's like I don't.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
She's like I didn't know it. She's like, not do it,
and I'm not going to post it.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
You know you did the right thing.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
You I feel you would have regretted not having any
video or photo footage.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Out at all.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
So that was our first time watching it back in
the video with you with you all, but Braden had
let me know, let me know yesterday the day before
she was like he was said that Blakely didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Get the vowels. I was like, what cause, like you said,
like you.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Kind of rarely watched that your own videos, and I
don't know, like even hearing my own voice, I'm like,
EO cringe.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
But I was like, she didn't get the vowels because
we wrote our own vowels.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It was the day of but when he went to
go pick up likely from school, that's when we did.
That's when I wrote mine, and so we did it
and it was really special and I love both of
ours and it's just gone.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
But that's fine. Honestly, it's not fine.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
It's not gone because it's you know, we have it
and like what I think is actually kind of makes
that kind of special too.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Is it kind of lets us still keep something for ourselves.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Like, but I didn't realize it was like, I mean
we have everything that you know, people everyone gets to
see it, but that's like it's kind of like it
for me.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Yeah, it makes it special.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's like, you know, that's our promise that like is
between us, and so it's like it kind of makes
it like I don't know more there you.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Maybe way to go skipping out on the vow she knew.
She knew that was the she didn't know, Braid, But
did you guys write your vows down because you could
always like have them like printed out or something in
a book.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
So in that fifteen minutes that he went to grab
her from school, I wrote down the first part in
my phone and then I was like, that's that's gonna
get me started. Then I'm gonna wing the rest because
don't have much time. So I have the first part.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
There you go, Braden, What were you more nervous for
it to do? Was it the engagement or getting married?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I think the engagement, like for me, getting married was
something that like, once I proposed, I knew I wanted
to get married, So it was like that though it
was story was overs, just like how we were going
to do it, you know what I mean. And so
like for me, that's where I was at. I was like,
I just I just want to marry this woman, you
know what I mean? And it was like and again
like marriage, I think, at least for me, like marriage
is something that is very like it has a very
(25:14):
special meaning. It's like I hold in high regard and
it's like it's that commitment, It's that it's that person
knowing that beyond just like a yeah we're gonna get
married and say no, I'm spending the rest of my life.
I'm not just saying and I'm backing it with my actions.
I'm bringing it all.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
In life, not going anywhere.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Yeah, I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And so that's what I wanted to bring to our relationship,
where it's like, you know, we already knew that, but.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
It takes it a step even further.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Well, like I said before, I felt the weight of
for sure, like in a good way and a great
way of like the difference.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
And I think, you know, without all the.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Other for us chaotic as it sounded like that that
day was. It really was the least chaos that it
would have been. Also, that was just like a normal
day for us. And I think that we really got
to feel the difference and ill you know, still feel
the difference because I mean.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
You know, you guys are a couple.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
We have you know, I don't want to say like fights,
but yeah, fights, I mean disagreements, I mean happened very often,
and so I mean even.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Just the way very often, very often.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Like very often.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
I know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know, as it happened way too much.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Every second of every day, save me, no what's helped me.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But I mean, yeah, just to know like okay, like
we have like we're going to figure this out, like
there's no kind of yeah, we're not going anywhere, I
think was the big one and so for me.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And so with that it was marriage was more something
I was looking forward to extremely The engagement I was
very nervous about. And I wasn't this I mean it
was it wasn't that I wasn't looking forward to it,
but it was very much like I'm very nervous to
go do this. I I mean ahead of time, like
there was I knew I was going to get some
flat because again it was at a wedding, but I
mean I had permission and I had spoken to you know,
(26:56):
both Gary and Thereesa beforehand. So it was like, I mean,
for me, it was like you know, I I was
a little bit more nervous about the engagement and I
was more looking forward to getting married and just doing
it and like having that for us.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
You know what I'm saying, Yeah, I guess when you're
proposing to like you knew she wasn't gonna say no,
but it's still that like, but what if she's.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
At the wedding, like you know, you're.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Well, not necessarily that's the wedding's the last chance to
back out totally.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
But like the odds are way less.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
The odds are way less because it's like she didn't
know he was going to propose to her, but she
knew she was getting married that day.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, and also beyond this too, like what people I know, hopefully,
but that day that we were getting engaged, when we
were getting our nails done, she decided to tell me
a story about this girl that she had been watching
and oh, no, her best friend was getting proposed to.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, I was getting proposed to in Australia the same day,
which I knew, which kind of distracted me from what's
going on where we were, and so I was like
so like talking to her twin sister, like helping her
with anything that I could from where I was, and
so like really paying attention to that. And he jokingly
says like, oh, do you think she's gonna say yes?
And I'm like, or I said, I wonder what she's
(28:07):
gonna say, because I meant like she's gonna freak out
because her whole family planed and I mean, like she's
not expecting this at all. Like I wonder what she's
gonna say, and he meant, well, he said, well, she's
gonna say yes, right, Like, well, that's not what I
really meant.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
But while we're on the topic, I think that.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Girls should be more vocal and like, well willing to
say no because it's such a meaningful, like once in
a lifetime moment for most women, and like they just think, like, oh,
why don't you say yes? And then you'll tell them
no later, But like whoever they end up marrying later
is probably gonna see it. Like imagine if there's cameras
or something like, they'll see that video.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
And I'm just like going on and on.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
I'm like, I'm totally with you on what you're saying.
By the way, I used to watch these videos. That's
what you're saying to.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
These videos like on Facebook or YouTube or whatever where
it's compilation of like girls saying no and it's like
a flash mob in the mall and then she's.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Like saying no.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And back in the day, I'd be like, why didn't
you just say yes? And like, save everyone the embarrassment.
But now I'm like, no, good for you girl, like
you're and I'm sitting there.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Like I'm sitting there like, dear God, I'm gonna get
turned now that big I'm gonna make a fool of
myself right now.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
I'm like, yeah, I zero.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I had no knowledge of what was going on. I
was so surprised. But I'm like, yeah, I can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Poor guy.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
I give with you kept it in.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Joe would have told me, like, if Joe and I
are said to get the nail slot and we're having
that conversation, you would have been like, all right.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
So yeah, I have to talk to you about it.
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
All right, this is I think this is a good
place to end Part one. Thank you guys so much
for tuning into Better Happy Hour. We were going to
pick it up with these two for part two. We're
gonna get into what they got going on now, Honeymoon Talks,
what's next, So make sure you stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Thank you for listening, and don't get subscribed.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Bye.
Hey, welcome back to Battery Happy Hour. I'm Joe and
we are here with some very exciting new some very
exciting guests Bachelor Nation, please welcome the newlyweds mister and
Missus Bowers. Thank you for that, Sarah, congrats. We just
watched your wedding video, which listeners you can now watch
on bachel Nation's YouTube channel. You guys just watch it
(00:24):
back for the first time. How do you feel it
was moved?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, it was just honestly, it was just a special
and amazing and I don't know as as I remember
it like, it was just it was awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Also with the throwback, like the throw We've had such
a big year, and I think it's been you know,
about a year since we spoke with y'all, but I
mean just so many things have happened, and so that
was really cool to see it all kind of summed up.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Officially, how long have you guys been together?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Oh, well, we were official.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
I mean we were in six exclusive the first trip
of meeting each other, so and half.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And how long has it been? And then when did
you meet your daughter? I mean, yes, I'm better from
the beginning the way I phrased that as I was
saying it, I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Like, I got you.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
I know what you mean.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It was my it was my birthday. So it was
October nineteenth, two times ago.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Okay, for those listening, you should go watch the video.
You don't have to, but you should go watch the
video before listening to this podcast.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
It's beautiful. It was shot by Blakelee.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yes, so she just turned eight and yeah, so we'll
get into more details about how the wedding happened and
like why we did how we how we did it,
why we did it that way, but just know that
I wasn't we We have like so many professional photos,
even like styled, like we've done engagement shoots where I
was like wearing my wedding dress and actually the dress
(02:02):
that I was wearing at the wedding was from a
photo that we did. So we have these really baller
like photos that we've taken together.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
And so I was like, you.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Know, this is going to be so much less like
style than that. Like we always doing my makeup in
the car from getting our marriage certificate, and I was like,
stuff at Target, I need.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Flowers and eyelashes.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So I was like, I'm not really worried about the
photos because they're going to be so much less than.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
What we've done already.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And for me, but then I was like, wait, no,
I need photos, I need video.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Blakely, can you be for us? And she loves doing that,
so she she took it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Up and and uh that that was her doing and
she loved doing it.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I did have her.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
If you've noticed, if you do watch the video, I
noticed that she or if you might notice that she
has switched positions because from the beginning you can see
all the cars in the background, and I'm mid before
we did our kiss, I.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Was like, real quick, can you actually change the other side? Likely?
I really don't want that in the background. So she
did great.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And for me, you got so many cool like like
she said, we did so many cool style shoots. Like
for me, it was like, I don't know, I just
wanted a special moment and it was like I feel
like that's really what we had.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
So it was it was really cool. I mean for
me personally, I find I find a video like this
more engaging in photos that are more organic than like stylistic,
you know, photographed photos.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Yeah, no, there's something like super genuine or organic about
the video because it is shot by your daughter, and
it's yeah, it's like kind of it's giving like modern
day camcorder, you know what I mean, Like it's not
an iPhone, but she's like moving.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Around and like now I even feel like professional videographers
will shoot an HD video and try to turn it
into what this is. Yeah right, yeah, like make it.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
You know, like a filter's a filter for that.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
We literally they're gonna call it the Blakely filter.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Blakeley filter. That'll do. Yeah. She was like a smacking
the screen atterwards. She's like a.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Plause so and it was such a switch to from
how she was feeling prior to go out there, like
she was like she was Tommy was actually hurting pretty bad.
Like I picked her up from school and we had
like told her we were getting married that day, like
we had already talked about it. And then like she
was like Tommy really hurts them and I'm like, okay,
we'll just wrap you up in a blanket. And then
we gave her some like you know, some tummy medicine
(04:15):
and by the time she got there, she was like
ready to party.
Speaker 6 (04:18):
Yesh, that's so exciting.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
All right, let's go back to let's go to the beginning.
How did this decision come to be?
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Yeah, so you get engaged. What was your initial vision
of your wedding?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Okay, so great question. So we got engaged very publicly.
We've spoke on this, but it was you know, I
was so surprised it was I mean, it was just magical.
It was so everything I could have dreamed in more
and public also.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
Yes, for those who are listening in case you missed it,
which I'm sure you didn't, but they got engaged last
year at the Golden Bachelor wedding on TV.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
It was beautiful. We chatted with you guys. It was great.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yes, so as far as you know, you guys have
been there engaged. And then the questions are when's the wedding,
when's the wedding? When's the wedding? And so I was
just like, man, I don't know, like we're were. We
moved in right after the wedding. That was the plan,
even before we got engaged. He had his truck packed up.
We were making the drive from California to Tennessee. And
you know that's an event in itself, like moving in together.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
So I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I also used to be an event planner, wedding planner,
so I know how much goes into it, and so
I was like, I really want to dedicate time.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So we didn't really hop on like the whole like
let's plan a wedding thing right away.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
But once we did, and that's kind of when we
got overwhelmed because it's like my family's all in San Diego.
Her family's kind of scattered, they're in Tennessee, they're in
New Jersey, you know, North Carolina.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
So it's like we have all these people from different areas.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Like trying to find a location that we wanted to
get married and was going to be difficult. And then
when we were looking at like pricing for it and
planning and like, oh, if I invite this person, I
have to invite this person, and then like you know,
we're gonna spend so much time like trying to pick
out flowers and pick out all this stuff, and it
just like we started like doing all this planning and
it really started to feel like the planning was for
everyone else and not really for us. And it was
(06:09):
like when we were thinking about it, it's like, you know,
we're the ones that are jumping into this commitment like,
you know, it's a promise between the two of us,
and you know it's also going to affect Blakely, And
it was like, you know, so the three people that
needed to be there were us three, and it was
like we wanted it to be a special moment that
was just for us and you know, just like our
promise to each other, and you know, kind of just
taking a moment to recognize that. And you know, I
(06:31):
had but I had a couple of friends that, like
I went to their weddings and over the last year,
and like often times I talk to them like, oh, like,
you know, are you so glad you did it that?
Because I was asking, I was like, you know, what
do you think, like should we go and do this
big thing? And they often told me they're like, you know,
it's just they they forgot. Like it was like, yeah,
they just remember like a couple of things about the wedding,
but the whole thing it was just gone in a flash,
(06:51):
and it was like they kind of forgot the whole
event itself and they went back home and nothing really
felt super different. And I don't know if that's the
case for everyone. I know it's not the case for
a lot of people. But like, the thing that was
so amazing is when we got married and the way
we got married. It was like afterwards it did feel
like there was a big difference because it was like
we didn't let.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Like felt the weight of the commitment.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, it was like the amazement in awe of like weddings.
I like, it didn't like take away from people.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Being in town and because we're being on like we
want the guest experience, like if we're doing something like
even if we just have people in town staying with us,
like we just did for Christmas, like we want to
make sure like our un divide attention is with them,
making sure like everything's perfect.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You know, the napkins are Swans and like you know,
little things like that, which I I mean, I know how.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Crazy I get about that, and I know that like
you're the same way too, and so we would probably
be attending to them, and so we love doing that.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
And that's the thing we wouldn't It wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Be it chore, but it's like, okay, well it would
be less about us, and so I don't know, I
love the way we did it.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It was really awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Also, it was twelve twelve, twenty four, so that date
was pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Talls one of my lucky numbers. Lucky there, Yeah, that's
one of my roulette numbers. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
When we were talking to the minister because we called
like an on call or dating minister.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Morning, yeah, morning.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
We were actually like running around doing some chores for
this video I had to make, and literally it was
for We'll just go and say it was like for this,
this TV had to be in this video for our
social media and the TV.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
We we hooked it up. We went through all the
process of like.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Hanging it up, and I'm like, we really don't have
to do this right now, Like we have a wedding today,
Like shouldn't we just go get our marriage license because
we hadn't done that yet. We did it day of
and we plug it in. We're like, no, it's just
be nice to get it done. So we plug it
in and it was crap, like the screen had been cracked.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
So then we're like, oh, but oh.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
That was the first We took it down that day.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
We bought a fixed one.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Yeah, we took down the broken one and we replaced
the broken one with the new on this we had
to go to.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like different targets around town, Like we went to one
that was ended up being forty minutes away after already
going to several others that said they had that TV
stock to go get that TV.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
This is the day that you were getting married.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
The day up and then yeah, and then we came
back and I was like, okay, so we got.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
It, and he's like, no, this is what I was,
this is what I was remembering.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
You were like, we have to put it up right
now because it's gonna be like in my head, is
it cracked also?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
And so he was like, okay, we have to at.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Least again, Yeah, focused on marriage this TV.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
I need the TV to not be cracked for signed.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
For me and had called on call officiants on call
dot com or whatever, and she was like, yeah, just
let me know like where to meet you and what time.
We're like, all right, TVD And then so she kept
texting and we're like putting this TV up and getting
out of the box and it's like huge we're having
I'm like, I just I don't want to sweat. I
need to do my I hadn't done my makeup at all.
That video that's in the video that you guys should
(09:45):
watch is in the beginning of it where we have
our marriage license. You can definitely see I have zero
makeup on, and I was like, what do I wear?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
You know, sweatpants.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It ended up the dress that I was wearing was
from a style shoot we had already done, so I
had no clue what I was gonna wear.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
The jackets from Target, not Spuns or a Target yet
by the way, but.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Most I feel like most people will listen to this
and be like this is crazy, But you are talking
to two people that woke up and got married, like
we were going to get coffee, like we will wait.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
So we got married a year before our wedding at
the courthouse, and.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
We treated it very similarly to you guys.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Like I I had bought some dress from Ritzia that
I owned already, and I was like, I was buy
some white and.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
I'll throw it. And I threw it on. It was
a completely see through.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
So I put on like faux leather pants and like
a card. Again, it's like, really not my best outfit.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I was like dressed to go to the gym after.
I was like, I gotta go to the gym after.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Yeah, it was so nice too.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
That's awesome.
Speaker 8 (10:53):
I didn't know that about your guys' story. That is
so awesome.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I didn't either.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Yeah, when did so? When was the deciding moment when
you you get engaged? You like, you know, we know
how much a wedding is going to be. Let's just
like think on it and figure it out later.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Before keep keep that going. But I just want to
jump in real quick, just because I think it's it's
much more different for guys. So I take me and
Branden out of the equation. But Christina, when you were
a young girl, did you picture did you always want
a big wedding? Because I know that's like a thing.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
The problem is with me having planned hundreds of weddings
for other people and the no, no, no longer.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
But I won't.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I'll urge you to not take Bread out of the equation.
Because he was very excited originally he wanted.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
This, Okay, I got I got excited about like a party.
So I was thinking, we'll have a food truck, we'll
have a man that has was like I'm thinking like
the reception, I'm not thinking the actual like.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
When I'm saying when we're younger, like like as a
boy growing up, I don't picture my wedding right where
I like to, like for a young girl. That's kind
of like a thing no on for me.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
And this this is gonna be sound weird because I,
you know, was on the same show all of us,
all of us were, you know, with our I feel
weird about doing like kissing and stuff in front.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Of my family.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I think as a child, that was always what was
in my head. I'm like, there's no way I'm gonna
kiss in front of my family.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
That's so funny. But over that, this show actually took
that away for me.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah, because I was.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
Like, you've seen me like straight up making out in
a hot tub, Like.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
But that's a great okay.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So I have no questions though, I know, like how
did everyone deal with that with their families? I feel
like that's an interesting question, Like where you do you guys,
like don't watch because I told my family, I'm like,
do what you want, I'm not gonna watch it with you,
but like at your own.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
I just I was living at home and because it
was COVID and I was like locked in the house
with my family, So I was watching every week with
my parents and my sister. I think I was just
like watching your own risk, Like if you see something
you don't like, like, that's not my fault. Like it
is a dating show and you know that I kissed him,
so like I'll try to warn you of like anything
(13:03):
that may be a little scandy, but like not like
you know, yeah, watching your own risk, and if this
gets too weird, then like we'll watch separately. But I
was more just like let's just not talk about it,
Like let's.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Just keep moving, keep moving. You know.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It's like if you're watching a regular, you know, any
kind of movie, and then something comes on you're like,
just don't address it, Let's keep rolling.
Speaker 7 (13:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
It reminded me when I watched it with my family
of like when I was a kid, Like how I
used to cover my eyes, Like my aunt and my
mom when they were watching, We're covering their eyes is
screaming like like they just didn't want to see me
kissing anyone. And so it was like super loud in
my house every night that the show aired.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
My parents definitely said it was weird.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
They're like, I've never because not only do our parents
not watch us like make out with people most of
the time, but most I've never for us, at least
the title.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:52):
Also, just don't watch you like interact in the early
stages of a relationship, like you're like, they're like if
you're seeing you like flirt with someone, and you know
all these things.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
So yeah, absolutely, but now we we never even had this.
I have, I haven't had this conversation with my family.
All I would do after episodes was I just wanted
an assessment on how I came across.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
I looked physically, like how, like how how.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
And they would just be like you were great. I'd
be like that's all I needed to hear.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
My family was My aunt was like you're the villain.
You're the villain, and I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
So okay, So.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Taking it back to my question, knowing all the factors
that went into this decision, you didn't want to kiss
in front of your family. You guys are mega hosts,
and you wanted, you know, it to be focused on
you and your love story versus like hosting other people.
What was the turning point of like, Okay, we're doing this,
this is this is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah. Honestly, our Thanksgiving trip, like we went back to
San Diego to see my family for Thanksgiving, and it
was like it was it was an amazing trip.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
It was like before I had been totally sold on,
like let's do that, let's go a lope or just
like run away with the with the exception of we
always knew that Blakely wanted to be there or she
would be very upset, and.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
So I was I mean, for me, it was kind
of just like when I went home to see my family,
it was like it was an amazing trip. We had
an amazing time together, and it was just I don't know,
it was so hard for everyone to get into town.
It was so hard for everyone to get together. And
it was like when I was thinking about it, I
was like, it's just gonna be so difficult to arrange it,
like arrange this and make this happen.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
And then not able to spend the time with it,
and then exactly.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
And then not even be able to spend the time
with them.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And so it was like I was enjoying just partying
with my family and partying with Christina and partying with
and it was just like it was so much fun
to have a care free environment where we were just
getting together and celebrating the holidays and just like partying
together and having fun. And it was like, I just
I was like, I don't need the ceremony with all them.
I'll just we'll do a big celebration and we can
have this of just like this care free like environment
(15:51):
and that would be so much more special to me.
Speaker 7 (15:54):
You know what I mean. And so it was like,
I mean, we could have like.
Speaker 8 (15:55):
Oh, yeah, this is our anniversary or one year anniversary party.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
But at the same time, it's like, but it's not
necessarily like we're going to be sitting down and you know,
doing our pictures and visits and stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
It's going to be just like hanging out and just casual.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
We kind of just allowed ourselves to make decision to
be like selfish, and it was, you know, a bit
selfish of us, but yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
We did We did it.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
She did it, I felt.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I mean, it was it was hard to like, I mean,
we we waited till the holidays to tell everyone too,
so it was kind of like, I mean, ahead of time, they.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Knew we were like planning to get married, and may.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Likely didn't really tell anyone either, and then we kind
of just told everyone during Christmas.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Like, yeah, so we got married guys, and they're like, well.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Did you have anyone that expressed frustrations about that or
felt like they got jiffed?
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Not I mean not necessarily I think that.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I mean, I mean, according to Christina's face, there was someone.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
I mean yeah, yeah, no, I mean no, it was
it was definitely. I mean I understood expected.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Let's it was.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
It wasn't it wasn't bad, Like it wasn't like they
were actually upset. They were they wanted to be there.
It was more like it was more like they were bummed.
We waited so long to tell them, which is a
totally understandable. I mean we waited, we waited two weeks
to kind of like share the news with everyone because
in our head we're like, oh, we'll share it on
Christmas and like it'll be special. But so I understand
like that, like I if the only thing that maybe
(17:09):
I might have told him, I might have told him sooner,
because I mean, but we just got so caught up
because life just like you know, but night. Yeah, like
it wasn't like life stopped for us getting married. It
was like we got married and then like you know,
we went right back to it. Like, you know, we
had Blakely has school, she does piano, she does basketball.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
You know, I have my work, I'm going back to school.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Like there's a bunch of things that we got going on,
and so it was just like we just got you know,
we got to have our special moment and we still
got to celebrate it and enjoy between us. But it
was like it was like finding the time to sit
down and call everyone and tell everyone. We just you know,
it got pushed back person yeah, because the last thing
I wanted is like to tell one person and then
have them tell someone else. I was like, okay, when
we call and tell everyone, we have to sit down
(17:47):
and call everyone because if someone else finds out, someone
else is going to be better.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
It's just one witness you need, right, Your daughter was
that actually.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Didn't need need one. Thought it ten.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Wanted if there if there needed to be one, I don't
think she would have counted as a human.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Well, and we thought we were going to need a
witness too, and we had we had people lined up
to kind of like be there and be witnesses.
Speaker 7 (18:09):
But then we ended up playing.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Our head not like telling them yeah, but we ended
up being good.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
So were you worried at all because you said that
you found your minister on like a random sight online
where you like, damn, hopefully this girl's good.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Like she did a great job honestly.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Like I really loved what she said about like the
hands and everything and your she shows Oh.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Wait, she's Two things that we need to mention is
one about the the in the video you can see
the certificate. And then two that she when she showed up,
she had she recognized him. She's like, do you ever
get the what she's say?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Oh yeah, she one second, guess one second, sorry, my
dog is running around.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
So she shows up, so we called it on call.
We're literally in the target parking line. He's like, well,
let me just search, and he searched it. I'm like
that's not going to work, like I know, word of
mouth or like you know, let's go get a preacher
or something like go and walk into a church or
we'll find somebody. And so he finds this girl. She's like, yeah,
I can do it today. I'll show up there. Yeah,
gives us the price. We're like, awesome, like TVD on
(19:08):
when we're going to be doing it. So so we
ended up telling her we passed by on the way
to get the marriage to be at this gazebo that
we ended up doing it at right now.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
So you just found it like on the way to target.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Well, I mean we passed by it often, but we
were like they had put red bows on it for
Christmas and I'm like, that looks thick.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Let's get there.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Oh, so you didn't have that, You didn't have that
spot like pre planned like a week prior.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
He knew that so ahead of time.
Speaker 8 (19:30):
So when when we went home.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
As soon as we're like hey, as soon as we
got back from the trip, we're like, hey, we want
to get there, like let's do this thing that we.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Kind of like on this trail like maybe there.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, We're like we're like but we were in our head,
We're like, we just want to get married. Let's sit
down and like let's actually talk about just getting married.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Where are you guys from. There's there's this patch on
this trail that we like it there.
Speaker 8 (19:55):
It's actually a cute bench.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
It's like so there's like this park trail and there's
this single red bench and like oftentimes I'll go on
walks and I'll walk over there and there's like cardinals
that are flying around, and it's like it's so cool
because it's the only red in the entire area.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Yeah, like half a mile walk for the poor woman
to cut. Like we too were like no, probably not
so anyway, we see the gazebo or like this is
that's how we find it. So anyway, so we're it's
kind of a walk from even where we parked. Anyways,
and so play back the video. And I didn't know
this until yesterday. I was yesterday years old. You're like, oh,
you got it on video. I'm like, got one on video.
(20:28):
The marriage certificate had fallen out of his back pocket
while he was carrying Blakely to the gazebo, and I
was just like videoing him walking and you could see
it like right there on the ground plane his day.
And I didn't realize this this had even happened. And
so when the woman had walked up, she walks up,
she's like, hey, do you guys need this? So she
had picked it up and found it.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
No way, that is really lucky. That could have fully
blown away for sure.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
And so then I mean she knew your name.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Maybe she was just saying it that way, but she said,
do you ever get or maybe she didn't.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Know break, No, she didn't know who I was.
Speaker 8 (20:59):
So she was she knew your.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Name, but she didn't know the guy from the show's
name or something.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, well she knew my name, but she didn't know
the guy from the show's name. And so she's like,
she's like, have you ever gotten it that you look
like the guy from the bachelor's show, like from Paradise
he wore those crazy earrings. She's like, I mean, you
have earrings, but you're not wearing like you're just wearing
studs right now.
Speaker 7 (21:16):
You're not wearing like crazy ones.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
And I'm like, like, are you teasing me right now?
And she's like, no, what do you mean.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I'm like, well that was me and she's like and
then she was like, I get to marry you guys,
and I'm like, well, I know she had done like
married at first night.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Which we had no clue when when they were in Nashville.
So yeah, she was like, I know what to do,
Like she got it and she.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
And she did amazing.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
She made it, so I mean it was like even
what she wrote, yeah, it was funny. She She's like,
can we get a picture and I'm like, we're like yeah,
We're like and she's like, don't worry, I won't post it.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
She's like, this is just for me, and so it
was actually it was really cool.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
And then like when she went to drop off the
marriage certificate, she sent us a picture like it's official, guys,
and so it was just it was really cool.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Yeah, that worked out.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
So when you were walking to the gazebo with Blakely,
did you know at in that moment that she was
gonna film it or was that a I do that
all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, she is so Christina, And I think that people
need to understand this. So growing up Christina because her
mom would be.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
On the road often like three hundred days of the
year when I was growing up, So I had like
a Kelly, my babysitter that lived with us. She was
like her assignment was video cameracord Christina. So the mom
can watch it and have these videos. And so it's
twenty first time I'll be like video of me and
I'll be like dancing.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
It's like, hey, look at me. You know how everyone's
like kids are like look at me, look at me.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Do this. It's like and so yes, such me all
the time now and it's it's.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
So cute, but it's like, I mean, you guys would
have to see, like we have, there's boxes of like
film footage that she has from her growing up and
so it's like.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Blakely it's like anything. I'm like, oh my god, that's
cereal you're eating.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
It's so cute.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
And it's like so she like she literally records everything.
So for me, it's like, you know, it wasn't like
a lot of times the video. She records it just
for her, you know what I mean. Like again, like
she wants to save these special moments that she can
go and look back, and like we can go and
look back together.
Speaker 8 (23:07):
So it's like in that moment, it was like, oh,
she's like, I do want to get a recording.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
She's like I don't.
Speaker 8 (23:11):
She's like I didn't know it. She's like, not do it,
and I'm not going to post it.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
You know you did the right thing.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
You I feel you would have regretted not having any
video or photo footage.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Out at all.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
So that was our first time watching it back in
the video with you with you all, but Braden had
let me know, let me know yesterday the day before
she was like he was said that Blakely didn't.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Get the vowels. I was like, what cause, like you said,
like you.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Kind of rarely watched that your own videos, and I
don't know, like even hearing my own voice, I'm like,
EO cringe.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
But I was like, she didn't get the vowels because
we wrote our own vowels.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It was the day of but when he went to
go pick up likely from school, that's when we did.
That's when I wrote mine, and so we did it
and it was really special and I love both of
ours and it's just gone.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
But that's fine. Honestly, it's not fine.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
It's not gone because it's you know, we have it
and like what I think is actually kind of makes
that kind of special too.
Speaker 8 (24:02):
Is it kind of lets us still keep something for ourselves.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Like, but I didn't realize it was like, I mean
we have everything that you know, people everyone gets to
see it, but that's like it's kind of like it
for me.
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Yeah, it makes it special.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
It's like, you know, that's our promise that like is
between us, and so it's like it kind of makes
it like I don't know more there you.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Maybe way to go skipping out on the vow she knew.
She knew that was the she didn't know, Braid, But
did you guys write your vows down because you could
always like have them like printed out or something in
a book.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
So in that fifteen minutes that he went to grab
her from school, I wrote down the first part in
my phone and then I was like, that's that's gonna
get me started. Then I'm gonna wing the rest because
don't have much time. So I have the first part.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
There you go, Braden, What were you more nervous for
it to do? Was it the engagement or getting married?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I think the engagement, like for me, getting married was
something that like, once I proposed, I knew I wanted
to get married, So it was like that though it
was story was overs, just like how we were going
to do it, you know what I mean. And so
like for me, that's where I was at. I was like,
I just I just want to marry this woman, you
know what I mean? And it was like and again
like marriage, I think, at least for me, like marriage
is something that is very like it has a very
(25:14):
special meaning. It's like I hold in high regard and
it's like it's that commitment, It's that it's that person
knowing that beyond just like a yeah we're gonna get
married and say no, I'm spending the rest of my life.
I'm not just saying and I'm backing it with my actions.
I'm bringing it all.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
In life, not going anywhere.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
Yeah, I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
And so that's what I wanted to bring to our relationship,
where it's like, you know, we already knew that, but.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
It takes it a step even further.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Well, like I said before, I felt the weight of
for sure, like in a good way and a great
way of like the difference.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
And I think, you know, without all the.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Other for us chaotic as it sounded like that that
day was. It really was the least chaos that it
would have been. Also, that was just like a normal
day for us. And I think that we really got
to feel the difference and ill you know, still feel
the difference because I mean.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
You know, you guys are a couple.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
We have you know, I don't want to say like fights,
but yeah, fights, I mean disagreements, I mean happened very often,
and so I mean even.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Just the way very often, very often.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Like very often.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
I know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know, as it happened way too much.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Every second of every day, save me, no what's helped me.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
But I mean, yeah, just to know like okay, like
we have like we're going to figure this out, like
there's no kind of yeah, we're not going anywhere, I
think was the big one and so for me.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
And so with that it was marriage was more something
I was looking forward to extremely The engagement I was
very nervous about. And I wasn't this I mean it
was it wasn't that I wasn't looking forward to it,
but it was very much like I'm very nervous to
go do this. I I mean ahead of time, like
there was I knew I was going to get some
flat because again it was at a wedding, but I
mean I had permission and I had spoken to you know,
(26:56):
both Gary and Thereesa beforehand. So it was like, I mean,
for me, it was like you know, I I was
a little bit more nervous about the engagement and I
was more looking forward to getting married and just doing
it and like having that for us.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
You know what I'm saying, Yeah, I guess when you're
proposing to like you knew she wasn't gonna say no,
but it's still that like, but what if she's.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
At the wedding, like you know, you're.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Well, not necessarily that's the wedding's the last chance to
back out totally.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
But like the odds are way less.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
The odds are way less because it's like she didn't
know he was going to propose to her, but she
knew she was getting married that day.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, and also beyond this too, like what people I know, hopefully,
but that day that we were getting engaged, when we
were getting our nails done, she decided to tell me
a story about this girl that she had been watching
and oh, no, her best friend was getting proposed to.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yeah, I was getting proposed to in Australia the same day,
which I knew, which kind of distracted me from what's
going on where we were, and so I was like
so like talking to her twin sister, like helping her
with anything that I could from where I was, and
so like really paying attention to that. And he jokingly
says like, oh, do you think she's gonna say yes?
And I'm like, or I said, I wonder what she's
(28:07):
gonna say, because I meant like she's gonna freak out
because her whole family planed and I mean, like she's
not expecting this at all. Like I wonder what she's
gonna say, and he meant, well, he said, well, she's
gonna say yes, right, Like, well, that's not what I
really meant.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
But while we're on the topic, I think that.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Girls should be more vocal and like, well willing to
say no because it's such a meaningful, like once in
a lifetime moment for most women, and like they just think, like, oh,
why don't you say yes? And then you'll tell them
no later, But like whoever they end up marrying later
is probably gonna see it. Like imagine if there's cameras
or something like, they'll see that video.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
And I'm just like going on and on.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
I'm like, I'm totally with you on what you're saying.
By the way, I used to watch these videos. That's
what you're saying to.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
These videos like on Facebook or YouTube or whatever where
it's compilation of like girls saying no and it's like
a flash mob in the mall and then she's.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Like saying no.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
And back in the day, I'd be like, why didn't
you just say yes? And like, save everyone the embarrassment.
But now I'm like, no, good for you girl, like
you're and I'm sitting there.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Like I'm sitting there like, dear God, I'm gonna get
turned now that big I'm gonna make a fool of
myself right now.
Speaker 8 (29:13):
I'm like, yeah, I zero.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
I had no knowledge of what was going on. I
was so surprised. But I'm like, yeah, I can't imagine.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Poor guy.
Speaker 6 (29:22):
I give with you kept it in.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Joe would have told me, like, if Joe and I
are said to get the nail slot and we're having
that conversation, you would have been like, all right.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
So yeah, I have to talk to you about it.
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
All right, this is I think this is a good
place to end Part one. Thank you guys so much
for tuning into Better Happy Hour. We were going to
pick it up with these two for part two. We're
gonna get into what they got going on now, Honeymoon Talks,
what's next, So make sure you stay tuned.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
Thank you for listening, and don't get subscribed.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Bye.
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