A rose-worthy wedding ceremony day! Almost one 12 months after Sydney Hightower and Fred Warner celebrated their engagement, they tied the knot surrounded by their family members — and a number of other Bachelor alumni.
“Sydney is formally a Warner and I’m formally the largest cry child EVER ❤️,” Victoria Paul — who met Hightower, 27, on season 24 of The Bachelor upon its January 2020 premiere — gushed through Instagram Story on Saturday, June 25, sharing a pre-wedding selfie with fellow franchise alum Jasmine Nguyen. “[I] actually did discover my soulmates on TV.”
Earlier than the blushing bride married the 25-year-old San Francisco 49ers participant, her Bachelor Nation besties bought a primary have a look at her wedding ceremony robe.
“BRIDE,” Tammy Ly captioned a Story snap on Saturday, revealing Hightower had chosen an extended sleeve, fitted lace frock.
Whereas Ly, 27, and Natasha Parker each gushed over the previous retail advertising supervisor’s look, she beforehand teased her gown buying course of with Us Weekly.
“I positively thought I used to be gonna go a unique route than I did, that’s for certain,” Hightower completely instructed Us in January. “I might by no means have thought I might see that and be like, Oh that’s the one,’ positively not.”
Following Hightower’s temporary stint on Peter Weber’s season of The Bachelor in 2020, she met Warner after he slid into her social media DMs.
“He really despatched me an emoji [because] he didn’t assume I used to be gonna reply and that’s why he bought actually informal, nevertheless it was candy,” the Alabama native recalled to Us earlier this 12 months.
Following their whirlwind Could 2021 engagement, she dove headfirst into wedding ceremony planning — smack in the course of his athletic season.
“Planning a marriage throughout soccer season and now we’re in playoffs, he’s not concerned. It’s high quality, he trusts me, we each have the identical style,” she instructed Us earlier this 12 months. “He’s giving me the reins on that and it hasn’t been as worrying as I might have thought it might be. It’s been extra enjoyable. I’m simply excited for it to all simply come to an finish and us simply be there on that day.”
She added: “[We’re both] sappy romantics. So we’re simply desirous about the second after I’m strolling down and all of that, like, tearjerker stuff. That’s my favourite half. And it’s simply being there with our households. I feel that’s the second and the sensation that I’m wanting ahead to essentially the most.”
Scroll beneath to see extra snaps from the pair’s candy California nuptials:
