BiP’s Mari Pepin-Solis and Kenny Braasch are married
Bachelor in paradise alums Mari Pepijn-Solis And Kenny Brasch got married two years after their reality TV romance began.
Pepin-Solis, 27, and Braasch, 41, got married on Saturday, November 11, in Puerto Rico. The next morning, the bride showed off the couple’s rings via her Instagram Story.
“The morning after 😍” she wrote on Sunday, November 12, while sharing a photo of Braasch showing off his wedding ring during breakfast.
The couple met during season 7 of the ABC series, which aired in August 2021. While they quickly hit it off, the pair hit a bump in the road when the former pageant queen said she wanted to keep her options open.
Braasch went on dates with both of them Demi Burnett And Tia Booth, but he and his now-wife ultimately concluded that their bond was by far the strongest. They got engaged during the season finale in October 2021.
“Mari, you know, as soon as you came down the stairs and through the gate paradise, I was honestly in awe of how beautiful you were. You know, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but it was definitely something – something I’ve never felt before,” the boy band’s manager said as he proposed in front of the cameras. “At the end of the day, we’ve been through a lot of relationship issues in real life, and we were tested like no other couple paradise, I think. …I’m shaking. Mari, I’m so fucking in love with you. And I literally can’t see my life without you. You are such an amazing woman that you have changed my entire outlook on life. … Mari Pepijn, will you marry me?’
Shortly after the finale aired, the then-fiancés opened up about their future together — and their wedding plans.
“So we haven’t set a wedding date or anything like that yet, but I’m going to be moving to Chicago in the next few months,” Pepin-Solis told exclusively We weekly in October 2021. “So that’s our first step, and we agreed to get married in Puerto Rico, [which is] where I come from. So there is that.”
Nearly two years later, the duo said they were “making progress” when it came to organizing their big day.
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“It was a lot of fun planning the wedding. I think we are still in the preparatory phase, we are still trying to find some suppliers and get the most important things booked,” Pepin-Solis said exclusively. Us in February. “We did a lot of research and we just had a good time with it. Often planning a wedding can be boring and stressful and as much work as it is, I think we just try to have a good time with it.”
The reality stars planned a wedding in Puerto Rico – scheduled for November – and a second ceremony in Chicago in March 2024.
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“We have multiple looks! Because we have two weddings, we have to pull out all the stops,” Pepin-Solis said Us. “It was such a good experience. I actually went [wedding dress shopping] with Kenny’s mother and sister. My mother lives abroad, so unfortunately she couldn’t be there in person. But I feel so lucky that his family is so hospitable and so loving that they would do something like this for me – [it’s] very special.”
Before his romance with Pepin-Solis, Braasch was a contestant Clare Crawleys 16th season of The bachelorettewhich premiered in October 2020. Pepin-Solis, in turn, made her ABC debut on Matt James’ season 25 of The Bachelor in 2021.