Golden bachelor Gerry Turner and fiancé Theresa Nist are married
Golden bachelor Gerry Turner and his fiancée, Theresa Nistgot married in a televised wedding on Thursday, January 4, a month after their finale aired.
“I love your heart, your soul. I love your smile, your laugh. We have so much fun together. We laugh until we cry,” Theresa said during her vows. “We have the same, deep love for family. We have so much love to share and now so many more people to share it with. I promise to be your calm in a storm, to comfort you when you are sad, to laugh with you when you are happy, and to stay with you through the whole period, but above all to have fun and enjoy yourself for the entire time. rest of the time we have left on this earth, which could be another hour. I love you with all my heart and I can’t wait to be your wife.’
Gerry echoed her love with his own sentimental words.
“I’ve learned that you’re the woman I can’t live without. I’ve learned that you calm me down with the touch of your hand. I learned that you make me laugh with the easy comfort of a long lost friend,” he said during his vows. “I have learned that you are a strong and independent woman, and your strength brings me joy. I have learned that you make me a better person, a better man, because of your sensitivity and soft voice. Theresa, I now know that I have found a full partner to share the experiences that life has to offer us.’
More than 50 Bachelor Nation guests were in attendance in Palm Springs on Thursday Trista And Ryan Sutter, Jason And Molly Mesnick, Desiree And Chris Siegfried, Raven Gates And Adam Gottschalk, Jade Roper And Tanner Tolbert, Kenny Braasch And Mari Pepin, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Tayshia Adams and Charity Lawson and current Single Joey Graziadei.
Gerry, 72, and Theresa, 70, met and fell in love during season 1 of The golden bachelor. The couple got engaged during the November 2023 finale and was announced during the live After the last rose special that they would make vows on TV in January 2024.
“We are old! Think about it this way: When you’re 20, you can wait a year because that could be three percent of your remaining life,” Gerry said on the “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast in November 2023 about his and Theresa’s decision to to get married sooner rather than later. . “When you’re in your 70s, a year can be 10 to 20 percent of the time you have left.”
Before his proposal aired, Gerry admitted he was hesitant to remarry following the death of his first wife, Toni, in 2017.
“While I was dating [before the show]I was looking for the person I would spend the rest of my life with, regardless of label,” he shared exclusively We weekly in October 2023. “And as I got closer and closer to the process that started on the show, I really started to realize that I did want to get married, that I wanted that commitment, that two-way street. And so when I started the show, that was my goal.
Once Gerry and Theresa’s engagement was public knowledge, they started planning their wedding.
“We have daughters who are so involved,” Theresa explained People in December 2023. “My daughter, she’s seen a million weddings and she’s incredible. She put together the vision board. She asks me, ‘Do you like this? Do you like this?’ And I’m like, ‘Wow, okay, I don’t even have to do this. This is amazing.’ She handles it reasonably.”
For his part, Gerry was keen to give Theresa full control of their big day.
“I can just hear the joy in her voice when I’m talking to her and she’s talking about whether it’s a dress or a cake or flowers or whatever,” he said. “I’m so happy she’s having so much fun with it. It’s like, what could be more fun?”
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As for their future together, Theresa explained what the couple was most looking forward to.
“I would say find a house together and create that house where everyone would want to come – our whole family, our friends – and just explore life together and have adventures, go on holiday together and have a fun, incredible, wonderful life ,” she said. “We feel like we’re going to live the best life together.”
That includes merging their respective families. Gerry is the father of daughters Jenny Young And Angie Turnerwhile Theresa has a son, Tommy Nistand a daughter, Jen Woolston. In December 2023, Gerry shared a photo of their adult children via Instagram with the caption: “It’s going to be a very Gerry Christmas with Theresa and our blended family.”