Ben’s loss is Jordan’s acquire! After Ben Higgins blindsided JoJo Fletcher in the course of the season 20 finale of The Bachelor, she despatched off on her personal journey to search out love.
The true property developer’s closing 4 included Jordan Rodgers, Robby Hayes, Chase McNary and Luke Pell. In the long run, it was clear that JoJo’s coronary heart belonged to Jordan. And whereas they received engaged on the Bachelorette season 12 finale, which aired in August 2016, JoJo later revealed that the previous soccer participant virtually didn’t get down on one knee.
“Jordan had mentioned, ‘Except that is 100% the place we’re each at, I don’t wish to do it for the sake of the TV present and I gained’t.’ There was this entire factor with producers probably not letting him speak to my mother and father once more after they’d met,” she mentioned on the “Betches Brides” podcast in September 2019, noting Jordan didn’t wish to pop the query simply “for the sake of the TV present.”
Whereas the Vanderbilt alum in the end proposed, the twosome didn’t rush down the aisle.
“If Jordan and I have been to have gotten off the present engaged and began planning a marriage proper after, we most likely wouldn’t have made it. It most likely would have ended up in divorce,” JoJo defined. “And I hate saying that as a result of I by no means would ever need that for my life, however I actually do assume if we might have taken that route and rode out that top and jumped proper into it, it wouldn’t have been good for us.”
Three years after the present aired, Jordan determined it was time to suggest to JoJo once more — with a brand new ring.
“I really like @joelle_fletcher with all my coronary heart!! I at all times needed to re-propose, with no cameras, no producers, no drama … simply us,” he wrote in August 2019 by way of Instagram. “Our first engagement was so actual, and meant a lot to us each, however as we begin to truly plan our marriage ceremony for subsequent yr I needed to do it another time, OUR WAY!”
One thing that the couple did for the primary time in June 2020? Watching their season of the present as a condensed model of The Bachelorette season 12 airs on ABC as a part of The Bachelor: The Biggest Seasons — Ever!
“I feel I received actually fortunate the primary time round as a result of Jordan didn’t watch my season. He’s like, ‘I don’t must see that!’ However now he’s like, ‘I’m tremendous excited to look at!’” she informed Us Weekly solely. “I’m like, ‘Oh nice. 4 years later we’re gonna rehash all this?’”
The pair survived the dramatic stroll down reminiscence lane. After six years of relationship, two postponed marriage ceremony amid the coronavirus pandemic, they tied the knot at Sunstone Vineyard in Santa Ynez, California, on Might 14, 2022.
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