Everything Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick Have Said About Planning Their Wedding

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Everything Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick Have Said About Planning Their Wedding

A party for the ages! Kaitlyn Bristowe and her fiancé, Jason Tartick, started planning their wedding almost as soon as they got engaged. The couple began dating in January 2019 after meeting while taping an episode of her "Off the Vine" podcast. In a full-circle moment, the former banker popped the question while the Bachelorette alum was preparing to tape another podcast episode in May 2021. “It was everything I could have asked for,” the Dew Edit designer told Entertainment Tonight at the time. “The words that came out of his mouth were insanely beautiful. We’ve never locked eyes like that in our lives. We were holding hands, so intense, and I was listening to his every word, but still blacked out.” In 2020, Tartick revealed that Bachelor producers gave him the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend during her The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever! episode, but he decided to turn it down. He said he didn't feel "any pressure" to say yes, but decided against it because he didn't want their love story to overlap with Bristowe's past romances in the franchise. “We don’t need these stories to align in the same showing," he told ET in June 2020. "But I told Kaitlyn after. ... She’s like, ‘Thank God [you didn’t do it].’” [jwplayer x1O14rip-l3ahXupL] Instead, the proposal took place at home in Nashville. “I was trying to be present but I was so overwhelmed, and I was so embarrassed because I was wearing a T-shirt that said, ‘Tequila for Breakfast,'” the Bachelorette guest host joked about the big day. “I was like, ‘This feels very on brand, but also very inappropriate!'” While their wedding is still in the works, the duo have another future goal on their minds too: kids. “We’re on the same page, 100 percent on the same page. We want two kids,” Tartick said on the “Almost Famous” podcast in September 2020. “Over quarantine, we actually have one of our kids’ names picked out already. Completely normal, right?” In the meantime, they have their two golden retrievers, Ramen and Pinot, to keep them company. “If that next chapter is — will be — us having kids, she’s just going to be the most badass mother ever," Tartick added of his bride-to-be. "Knowing her, she’s just so committed to everything she does and passionate.” Keep scrolling to see everything the pair have shared about their upcoming nuptials:

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Everything Kaitlyn Bristowe and Jason Tartick Have Said About Planning Their Wedding

A party for the ages! Kaitlyn Bristowe and her fiancé, Jason Tartick, started planning their wedding almost as soon as they got engaged. The couple began dating in January 2019 after meeting while taping an episode of her "Off the Vine" podcast. In a full-circle moment, the former banker popped the question while the Bachelorette alum was preparing to tape another podcast episode in May 2021. “It was everything I could have asked for,” the Dew Edit designer told Entertainment Tonight at the time. “The words that came out of his mouth were insanely beautiful. We’ve never locked eyes like that in our lives. We were holding hands, so intense, and I was listening to his every word, but still blacked out.” In 2020, Tartick revealed that Bachelor producers gave him the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend during her The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons — Ever! episode, but he decided to turn it down. He said he didn't feel "any pressure" to say yes, but decided against it because he didn't want their love story to overlap with Bristowe's past romances in the franchise. “We don’t need these stories to align in the same showing," he told ET in June 2020. "But I told Kaitlyn after. ... She’s like, ‘Thank God [you didn’t do it].’” [jwplayer x1O14rip-l3ahXupL] Instead, the proposal took place at home in Nashville. “I was trying to be present but I was so overwhelmed, and I was so embarrassed because I was wearing a T-shirt that said, ‘Tequila for Breakfast,'” the Bachelorette guest host joked about the big day. “I was like, ‘This feels very on brand, but also very inappropriate!'” While their wedding is still in the works, the duo have another future goal on their minds too: kids. “We’re on the same page, 100 percent on the same page. We want two kids,” Tartick said on the “Almost Famous” podcast in September 2020. “Over quarantine, we actually have one of our kids’ names picked out already. Completely normal, right?” In the meantime, they have their two golden retrievers, Ramen and Pinot, to keep them company. “If that next chapter is — will be — us having kids, she’s just going to be the most badass mother ever," Tartick added of his bride-to-be. "Knowing her, she’s just so committed to everything she does and passionate.” Keep scrolling to see everything the pair have shared about their upcoming nuptials:

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The Proposal

The proposal itself required a ton of planning thanks to Bristowe's participation in season 29 of Dancing With the Stars, which aired in 2020. Tartick decided to reschedule and propose while visiting with Bristowe's family in Mexico, but then realized he couldn't bring the actual ring with him.

"At the value of what the ring is, I would have to totally disclose it and then show receipts," he recalled in July 2021. "And I’m traveling with Kaitlyn, so how could I? And if I did do that and it got sniped, it would have been a whole production.”

His mother, in fact, is the person who suggested that he pop the question during the podcast. “She was like, ‘You know, you guys met on the podcast,'" he explained. "I was like, ‘Ah!' I proposed to her on the podcast. She had no idea!”

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The Music

“For me, one thing I have said, from the day I ever started thinking about my wedding was that I would love a DJ [and] a live band," Tartick told Us Weekly in May 2021. "I want a big celebration; I want to enjoy it and I want to have a good time. I want to be dancing all night with the Dancing With the Stars champion and have so much fun.”

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Choosing a Date

Though they're eager to tie the knot, the twosome are still taking "baby steps" to find a date and venue because so many 2020 weddings were pushed to 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. “Let’s take one step at a time and the first step is going to be getting our wedding planner," the New York native told Us in May 2021. "After the wedding planner, we’ll have to lock in a venue and a location, and then a time. But we just have to wait to see, you know, what the wedding planner suggests and we’re going through that process now.”

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Hashtag Brainstorm

The Spade & Sparrows founder still hasn't decided how to document the ceremony via social media, but there will seemingly be a hashtag at the very least. “Starting wedding planning this week!!" she wrote via Instagram in May 2021. "WHAT SHOULD OUR WEDDING HASHTAG BE???”

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Glam Gala

Bristowe said that she wants the event to be as glamorous as possible. “I just know basically as soon as we can get the ball rolling, I want it to be like a Great Gatsby–like black-tie event, very glam, which is so opposite of what I thought I'd want,” she said during a June 2021 episode of the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast. "Four years ago I would have been like, I want bohemian. I want farm-style. I just keep changing my mind.”

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The Location

In January 2022, the Bachelorette cohost told Entertainment Tonight that she and her fiancé are hoping to tie the knot that October. "We think we are going to do it in Nashville," she revealed. "I wanted small always, but Jason's convinced me to go big. But then, [he's] Mr. Finance [so] Jason was, like, budgeting, and he's like, 'Maybe we go smaller?'"

When it comes to the nitty-gritty details, the pair are leaving it up to a professional. "I was like, 'Jason, we got to lock down a wedding planner because once I'm gone [on the DWTS tour], I'm not gonna be able to do much,' and I'm not too picky about things," Bristowe teased. "I'll let the wedding planner — as long as I trust them — do their thing, so hopefully that will make it easier."