Bachelor Nation’s Brayden Bowers and Christina Mandrell have tied the knot

Brayden Bowers and Christina Mandrell they are officially husband and wife!

On Tuesday, January 21, Bachelor Nation the couple revealed they tied the knot in secret on December 12, 2024. They gave fans a sneak peek of their big day in a wedding video shared via Bachelor Nation’s YouTube page.

“We just got a marriage license. No one knows!” Bowers, 26, noted. Unlike theirs Proposal from January 2024 on The Golden Bacheloris live Golden wedding in particular, they wanted to keep this milestone in their relationship under wraps – at least for a while. “Nobody knows about this,” he said, to which Mandrell, 30, added, “Except for the people who walk by when we get married in the gazebo.”

The couple said “I do” in a small gazebo in front of a small lake. On the way to their place, Mandrell filmed Bowers carrying his 8-year-old daughter Blakely “like a taco,” because she wasn’t feeling well after being picked up from school. Fortunately, Blakely was the “handler” and served as flower girl and cameraman for the ceremony. (Mandrell shares Blakely with her ex-husband, Blake Dennis.)

The couple kept things simple for their intimate wedding, as Mandrell carried white roses that they picked up at Target. Mandrell kept warm by wearing a white fur coat over her wedding dress, which featured a large leg slit. She completed her wedding look with diamond dangling earrings and a white hair bow. Bowers, for his part, looked dapper in a navy suit and light blue shirt.

In their vows, Bowers and Mandrell stated, “As I place this ring on your finger, I make you my promise. From this day forward, I give you everything I am. You will never walk alone. I give you my heart and soul for all the days of my life.”

The clerk also reminded the two that they would be “holding your best friend’s hands” from that day forward. “These hands will work alongside yours, building your future. These hands will love and cherish you passionately and will be able to comfort you like no other. … And in the end, these hands, even when they are wrinkled with age, will still reach for yours,” she added.

After being pronounced husband and wife, Bowers and Mandrell had their first married couple dance next to the gazebo. “This is the best wedding ever,” Bowers exclaimed in the video.

Bachelor Nation fans met Mandrell on Zach Shallcross‘ season 27 Bachelor 2023 and Bowers onwards Charity Lawson20th season Bachelor later that year. In the finale of the 9th season in December 2023 Bachelor in Paradiseit was discovered that the two were dating after Bowers’ brief romances with Izzo the cat and Rachel Recchia in the show.

Two months after Bowers took a knee during Golden wedding special, he and Mandrell fueled wedding rumors after posing for wedding themed photography in March 2024.

The couple opened up about their decision to have a smaller wedding on Tuesday’s episode “Bachelor Happy Hour” podcast.and Mandrell explained that a larger celebration would put the focus on their guests.

“We want the guest experience, for example, if we’re doing something, even if we just have people in town staying with us… we want to make sure our undivided attention is with them, making sure everything’s perfect, the napkins are swans and stuff like that little things, I know how crazy I am about it, and I know you are too,” she said. “And so, we would probably devote ourselves to them. We love doing it, and that’s the thing. It wouldn’t be a job, but it’s like, ‘OK, it would be less about us.’ And so, I like the way we did it.”