Brayden Bowers and Christina Mandrell are married

Brayden Bowers and Christina Mandrell they are officially married!

On Tuesday, January 21, in Bachelor Nation the couple revealed that they secretly tied the knot on December 12, 2024. They gave fans a glimpse of their big day in a wedding video shared via Bachelor Nation’s YouTube page.

“We just got our marriage license. Nobody knows!” Bowers, 26, noted. Unlike theirs Proposal for January 2024 on The Golden Bachelorshe is alive Golden wedding strange, they wanted to keep this relationship milestone a secret – at least for a while. “No one knows about it,” he said, before Mandrell, 30, added, “Except for the people who drove by when we got married in the gazebo.”

The couple said “I do” in a small gazebo in front of a pond. On the way to their place, Mandrell filmed Bowers carrying his eight-year-old daughter Blakely “like a taco” because she wasn’t feeling well after being picked up from school. Fortunately, Blakely was a “trooper” and served as flower girl and ceremony cameraman. (Mandrell shares Blakely with her ex-husband, Blake Dennis.)

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The couple kept things simple for their intimate wedding as Mandrell carried white roses that they picked up at Target. Mandrell warmed up by wearing a white fur coat with a large leg slit over her wedding dress. She completed her bridal look with diamond earrings and a white hair bow. Bowers looked dapper in a navy suit and light blue shirt.

In their vows, Bowers and Mandrell stated, “As I put this ring on your finger, I give you my promise. From today I give you all that I am. You’ll never walk alone. I entrust you with my heart and soul for all the days of my life.”

The clerk also reminded the two that from that day forward they would be “holding your best friend’s hands.” “These hands will work alongside yours, building your future. These hands will love and cherish you passionately and can comfort you like no other. … And finally, these hands, though wrinkled with age, will still reach for yours,” she added.

After being pronounced husband and wife, Bowers and Mandrell shared their first dance as a married couple next to the gazebo. “It’s the best wedding ever,” Bowers exclaimed in the video.

Bachelor Nation fans met Mandrell on Zach Shallcrossseason 27 Bachelor in 2023 and Bowers on Charity Lawson20th season Bachelor later that year. In the Season 9 finale in December 2023 Bachelor in Paradiseit turned out that the two were dating after Bowers’ brief romances with Cat Izzo and Rachel Recchia at the exhibition.

Two months after Bowers got down on one knee Golden wedding strange, he and Mandrell sparked wedding rumors after posing for a wedding themed photo shoot in March 2024.

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The couple opened up about their decision to have a smaller wedding on Tuesday’s episode of the series The Bachelor Happy Hour Podcast.with Mandrell explaining that a larger celebration would focus on their guests.

“We want a guest experience, like when we’re doing something, even if it’s just people staying with us in town… we want to make sure our full attention is with them, so everything’s perfect, napkins are swans and little things like that I know , how crazy it makes me, and I know you are too,” she stated. “And so we would probably attend to them. We like to do it and it works. It wouldn’t be a chore, but it’s like, ‘OK, it would be less about us.’ And so I like the way we did it.”