NBC’s American Music Contest semi-finalist and Warner Music Nashville artist Tyler Braden stated “I Do” over the weekend to his longtime girlfriend Marisa Taylor, a photographer.
Individuals reviews the pair, who met greater than 5 years in the past on Tinder, had been married in Joshua Tree Nationwide Park in southeastern California.
“We went on one journey to Joshua Tree and cherished it a lot we knew we wished our marriage ceremony there,” Braden informed Individuals. “There’s something magical about being round all of these previous bushes.”
The couple integrated their prolonged household into their marriage ceremony day, following the one thing previous, one thing new, one thing borrowed and one thing blue traditions. For one thing previous, Braden wore her mom’s authentic marriage ceremony band. She integrated a turquoise earring for one thing blue, and her new mother-in-law loaned her a hairpin and an ankle bracelet for one thing borrowed.
“We additionally accumulate a rock from in every single place we go,” Taylor stated. “Our marriage ceremony company and celebration all initialed a rock and held it throughout a second of silence in the course of the ceremony. Everybody positioned their rock in a bowl to represent two units of households and mates all coming collectively. It was actually an ideal day.”
Braden defined his mother introduced rocks that he discovered when he was 4 years previous, and wouldn’t let her throw away.
“She had no thought concerning the rock ceremony when she introduced them,” he stated.
The pair met quickly after they each moved to Nashville on the Burger Republic in Nolensville, Tennessee. Their love bloomed from there.
“We’re greatest mates first,” stated Braden, who spent years as a firefighter earlier than pursuing his nation music desires. “Our operating joke is that we’re excited to be authorized greatest mates.”
His new spouse added: “And we’re additionally excited to formally begin our little household.”
