Melissa Rycroft Says "I Do!"
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Nearly a year after being rejected on national television by Jason Mesnick, former Bachelor contestant Melissa Rycroft is finally a married woman.
Rycroft swapped vows with fiance of six months, Dallas insurance agent Tye Strickland, Saturday in Mexico, Usmagazine.com has confirmed.
The couple became husband and wife in a 30-minute sunset ceremony attended by family and friends at a home on Isla Mujeres, a small island near Cancun. Rycroft, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, and Strickland sealed their tear-filled vows with a kiss as an instrumental version of the Monday Night Football theme song played.
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Rycroft wore a strapless corsetted Alfred Angelo gown and was barefoot as her father escorted her down the aisle. Her four bridesmaids donned salmon-colored dresses and carried bouquets of white roses, while Strickland's groomsman wore mint green button-down shirts and khaki trousers.
The 26-year-old Rycroft -- who celebrated her impending nuptials with Strickland, 28, and their pals at a joint Nov. 15 bachelor/bachelorette party in Las Vegas -- has long said her ceremony would be low-key.
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"I'm not stuffy or anything," the Good Morning America correspondent and 2009 Dancing With the Stars finalist, has said. "That's not my personality.
Engaged since June, Rycroft and Strickland rekindled their romance after Rycroft's abrupt dismissal from the ABC series. Dumped by Mesnick for runner-up Molly Malaney, Rycroft calls being jilted "one of the best things that has happened to me in my life."
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"We've been really good friends, but the timing was never right," the bride told Us at the time of Strickland. "With all this going on, he's my support system. It's funny how things happen."
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The pair, who will make their home in the suburbs of Dallas, say children are in their future.
"I definitely want to have kids, but not any time soon," Rycroft says. "We want to put ourselves first for as long as we can. I want it to be us for as long as possible before we have some little twerp running around."
Adds Strickland, "If we procreate, we are going to have a little terror!"















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53I have to agreee with tj.... December 13, 2009 - 1:46pm tj Says: Fake fake fake. Always was. I live in Texas and ran into Melissa recently at a local Hobby Lobby. I congratulated her in a very kind manner and she was a SNOB!! I wish her well in her marriage, but she's not the sweet litle southern girl she pretends to be.
YAY MELISSA!!!! So happy for you.... I wish you and Tye a merry christmas and best wishes...
You people suck! I don't think Melissa has ever been out for her 15 minutes of fame. She joined Dancing with the Stars because she was asked...its not like she called them up and begged them to pick her. Hell, she said herself when she was on the show that she is NO celebrity. Congrats Melissa!
congrats!!!
Congrats! Wish you happiness!
Best wishes to them both.
Congrats to the Happy Couple!!! To all the haters, why do you even waste your oh so precious time posting if you hate so much? Pathetic.
OK who wants to take bets on how long this marriage lasts??? Too funny REBOUND
WAY better looking than stupid Jason. GO Girl!
WHO CARES! WHO CARES! WHO CARES!!!! RABBIT TEETH!!!!
So happy to hear the news of your wedding. Wishing you many years of happiness.
She needs to stop smiling the way she always does! She forces her huge teeth out and she looks stupid!
This littel fake marrige will be over in less than two years she is not that good looking she is a complet flake no wonder jason dumped her that was the smarest move that he ever made i can only hope that her new hubby will do the same he can do so much better than her.
Miranda why dont you just shut up!Oh my gosh she can be happy and usmagazine is allowed to report a wedding!!!
concern, groom is not holding bride closely, sense of not closeness, does he truely love the bride
who cares? she's so annoying.
Congratulations on your wedding. You make such a cute couple. Good Luck and Best Wishes for a happy ending.
What wonderful news! Now they can go on their honeymoon and maybe the world can have an extra long honeymoon of not hearing about this phony famewh ore. One or two articles in 2009 would have been plenty, but it has been one or two a week! They should have got married Jan 1st so the pasty white boy would not have to be taxed on all of horseface's earnings as 2009 Victim of the Year! They will be the next Gosselins!!!
So Sweet. This just shows that sometimes things really do work out for the best!
Congrats to Melissa and Tye! Best wishes for a long and happy life together :)