Everything We Know About Bachelor Nation’s Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo’s Wedding

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Everything We Know About Bachelor Nation’s Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo’s Wedding

First comes love on a reality show, then comes never-ending questions about when you will tie the knot! Rachel Lindsay, who got engaged to Bryan Abasolo during season 13 of The Bachelorette in 2017, is now ready to walk down the aisle. The reality TV personality, who revealed in January 2019 that she hired a wedding planner, told Us Weekly that her fiancé lets her take control with the majority of the planning process. “Occasionally [he’ll] say something, but it’s more of like, ‘What am I going to wear?’ He asks those types of questions and I’m like, ‘I don’t know!'” Rachel exclusively told Us while discussing her partnership with Vaseline in February. “He’s very much so, like, ‘You’ve got this!’” While the former attorney initially told Us that she wanted to get married in “early 2019” and have a small wedding, she admitted that plans change. “Honestly, I wanted [to get married in] the first half of the year, but it just depends on the venue,” Rachel told Us at the time. “The venue we’re gonna go with … the better time is the end of the summer.” [jwplayer IkrBaQXD-l3ahXupL] Months later, Rachel gushed to Us that she can’t wait to see the couple’s families “come together.” “I remember when I was 15 years old, my cousin got married, she got married in Disney World, or just right outside of Disney World, just right there. [It’s] the first wedding I truly remember that I could appreciate,” Rachel recalled to Us at the Rachel Lindsay for The Knot Registry event in South Hampton, New York, in August 2019. “And my cousin, she's black, she married a white male. And to see the families come together on the dance floor. We danced the night away. And I will never forget that. And I remember thinking at 15 that's exactly how I want my wedding to be. Two different cultures coming together for the first time. And it just seems so effortless. They're still married to this day.” Scroll through for everything we know about Rachel and Bryan’s wedding — so far:

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Everything We Know About Bachelor Nation’s Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo’s Wedding

First comes love on a reality show, then comes never-ending questions about when you will tie the knot! Rachel Lindsay, who got engaged to Bryan Abasolo during season 13 of The Bachelorette in 2017, is now ready to walk down the aisle. The reality TV personality, who revealed in January 2019 that she hired a wedding planner, told Us Weekly that her fiancé lets her take control with the majority of the planning process. “Occasionally [he’ll] say something, but it’s more of like, ‘What am I going to wear?’ He asks those types of questions and I’m like, ‘I don’t know!'” Rachel exclusively told Us while discussing her partnership with Vaseline in February. “He’s very much so, like, ‘You’ve got this!’” While the former attorney initially told Us that she wanted to get married in “early 2019” and have a small wedding, she admitted that plans change. “Honestly, I wanted [to get married in] the first half of the year, but it just depends on the venue,” Rachel told Us at the time. “The venue we’re gonna go with … the better time is the end of the summer.” [jwplayer IkrBaQXD-l3ahXupL] Months later, Rachel gushed to Us that she can’t wait to see the couple’s families “come together.” “I remember when I was 15 years old, my cousin got married, she got married in Disney World, or just right outside of Disney World, just right there. [It’s] the first wedding I truly remember that I could appreciate,” Rachel recalled to Us at the Rachel Lindsay for The Knot Registry event in South Hampton, New York, in August 2019. “And my cousin, she's black, she married a white male. And to see the families come together on the dance floor. We danced the night away. And I will never forget that. And I remember thinking at 15 that's exactly how I want my wedding to be. Two different cultures coming together for the first time. And it just seems so effortless. They're still married to this day.” Scroll through for everything we know about Rachel and Bryan’s wedding — so far:

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The Attire

The former ABC star told Us that the dress code for her wedding is “Island Chic.”

“It’s island vibe and that's how I want it to be,” she explained to Us in August 2019. “We're bringing bride's family from Columbia, from Miami, my family from Texas and all over. And so we're all coming together.”

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The Music

“I just want to use the type of music that makes people get out of their seat and on the dance floor,” Rachel told Us in August 2019, noting she loves “booty shaking” and will be performing moves she learned from the twerk instructor featured on her season of The Bachelorette. “We were practicing in the water, any place where we could.”

Rachel also assured Us that V.I.C.’s “Wobble” will be played on her big day,

“‘The Wooble’ will be played, definitely. I have that list of Latin music, electric slide, all of that,” she explained. “My family is the type of family that will grab you and say, ‘Get over here and learn this dance. Why are you sitting down?’”

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The Welcome Reception

The twosome will be hosting a welcome reception for guests instead of a rehearsal dinner.

“I want people to have a bit of a vacation while they're there. And just do an excursion,” Rachel told Us in August 2019. “We'll have a welcome reception … you'll see the culture reflected at the reception and it will be the first time our, my immediate family has met Bryan, but it's the bigger families coming together and it'll be very personable.”

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The Something Borrowed

Rachel revealed to Us in August 2019 that she’s going to wear something of her grandmother’s because she isn’t able to attend the nuptials.

“She just can't travel and she probably doesn't want to, because she's obsessed with Bryan. My grandmother has a crush on Bryan. I'm not even kidding,” Rachel told Us. “I will FaceTime my Grandmother and I'm like, ‘Hey girl, how's it going? Hey, best friend.’ And she's like, ‘I’m fine, how are you?’ And then Bryan pops up in the screen … and I'm just like ‘Grandma, you cannot flirt with my man, he's mine!’ So I love that I have her approval of Bryan, but I will have something of hers borrowed." 

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The Location

Rachel, who is from Texas, and Bryan, who grew up in Miami, are planning on having a destination wedding. 

“It's going to be in like a Caribbean area. It's going to be at night. It's going to be on a rooftop, so it'll be laid back,” Rachel told Us in August 2019. “I guess it's just the vibe that I want.” 

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The Date

The couple are aiming for a summer 2019 ceremony. 

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The Wedding Will Not be Televised

“Originally, I thought it was going to be a televised wedding. I think I just thought it just came with the deal. ‘Oh, you two work? Televised wedding,’” Rachel told Us in February, referring to past Bachelor Nation weddings including Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici and Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert. “But it’s not that simple. So it’s not going to be televised and it will be filmed and maybe we’ll release it to the fans or do it with some outlet, but it won’t be, like, a special that you’ve seen in the past.”  

“I’m actually kind of glad it’s that way, because everything Bryan and I have done in our relationship has been so public and I’ve never been one that wanted it that way,” she continued. “I’m grateful for what’s come of all of it, but I’m glad that we’ll be in control of our wedding. We’ll determine who’s there, where they sit, the color, all that good stuff, and it will be very personal to us.” 

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Which Members of Bachelor Nation Will Be There?

While Rachel admitted that she jokes with her fellow Bachelor season 21 alums that they won’t be invited to the nuptials, she wants her girls by her side. 

“I joke like that because it’s kind of the trickle down effect. If you start inviting one, it’s like, ‘Oh, well I have to invite her, I have to invite her. Oh my gosh, she’s gonna have a plus one,’” she said. “It just really adds up. There will be Bachelor people there, I just don’t know how many at the moment. But they will not be bridesmaids, despite the rumors that Alexis Waters is trying to spread. If I do have bridesmaids, it will be my sisters, my two sisters, and Bryan’s sister.” 

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The Dress

Rachel planned on tying the knot in a pantsuit, but had a change of heart. “I have been swayed to wear a dress and it actually started to make sense,” she said, noting that Randi Rahm is designing the gown. “I met with her, had preliminary talks with her, and she kind of put it to me in a way where she said, ‘You want something that you’re not going to wear on the red carpet, that you’re not going to wear to a premiere. You can wear a pretty suit anytime, like a pearl suit or whatever, off-white, on any red carpet. So for your wedding, you really want something that’s going to strike up emotions with Bryan.’ And that’s honestly all I needed to hear. I was like, ‘You know what? That’s beautiful.’ And she’s like, ‘You can change into pants later.’ So I am wearing a dress.” 

The former ABC star added that her mother, Bryan’s mother and her sisters will come to town for the fitting. “That’s gonna be a good time,” she noted. “Especially when there’s champagne involved, it’ll be fun.” 

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The Vows

"We’re definitely writing our vows. We’ll say traditional vows and we’re writing our vows,” Rachel told Us. “And I don’t want him to hear them until the day of. I don’t even think we’ll do a first look. Like, I want him to truly see me for the first time walking down the aisle. But I have to figure it out. I’m sure as we get closer, I’ll figure something out." 

Months later, Rachel added that it’s going to be “hard” for her to write her vows. 

“I’m very wordy so that'll be hard for me to put it together,” she explained to Us in August 2019. “A couple of weeks ago I started getting nervous about writing my vows and I said, ‘You know, maybe we should just say traditional ones.’ And he was like, ‘Absolutely not.’” 

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The Dream Honeymoon

While the plans are not set in stone, the twosome have multiple dream honeymoon locations in mind. “The Maldives or a Bora Bora, Fiji, that vibe, or if we wanted a place where we could do more things, South Africa,” she said. “‘Cause we have a pretty big fanbase in South Africa too and I get a lot of requests from people asking us when we’re going to come. So I think it would be nice if we share something from Bachelor Nation with South Africa, because there are a lot of people who support us there.”

With reporting by Emily Marcus 

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Her Pre-Wedding Routine

Rachel told Us she “changed [her] lifestyle” to become the best version of herself before she and Bryan say “I do.” She noted, “I really started to get my life together and get healthy. I wasn’t taking care of my skin, or taking any breaks, but now I have a skincare routine day and night. I get a massage once a week and I take baths because I didn’t even recognize myself; I stepped away from law and I was loosing myself. But now I’m happy and have it together!”

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They Do!

Abasolo and Lindsay officially became husband and wife on August 24, 2019. The twosome wed in a romantic ceremony in Mexico.