“Dancing With the Stars” choose Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert, longtime companions in life and on the ballroom dance ground, are married.
Hough, 38, and “DWTS” professional dancer Erbert, 28, married Saturday in entrance of household and mates in a redwood forest in Northern California’s Monterey County, Individuals journal reported. Hough’s publicist Susan Madore confirmed the marriage to USA TODAY.
“It is one of the breathtaking locations,” Hough informed Individuals. “It is like a fairytale.”
“We’re in a redwood forest, however we received married proper in entrance of this mom tree that is surrounded by all these smaller timber,” Erbert stated. “They drop all of the seeds, and it vegetation type of like a military of youngsters to guard the mom. The symbolism of it was lovely. We’re right here, planting our seeds to develop our household.”
After the nuptials, company headed to the reception, which was held in a 100-year-old barn.
The couple started relationship in 2015 after assembly on “DWTS”: Erbert was a dancer on the present for seven seasons and 4 excursions. Earlier than becoming a member of the choose’s desk, Hough, the youthful brother of Julianne Hough, was a “DWTS” professional dancer, profitable the coveted Mirrorball Trophy a record-breaking six instances within the televised dance competitors.
The couple introduced their engagement on June 2, 2022, with joint Instagram posts that includes a wonderfully lit dancers’ embrace amid white flower petals, 250 outsized candles and white feathers. The entire shock engagement was arrange by Hough, remodeling the couple’s Los Angeles residence.
“It’s solely the start … the start of ceaselessly,” the Instagram caption learn.
Hough telegraphed the weekend wedding ceremony with an Instagram submit Wednesday of a romantic music he had written known as “Maintain Again Time” that includes an animated video of a bride and groom leaping right into a lake from a dock.
Within the music, Hough intones, “Don’t be nervous concerning the future / We’ve go love and we gained’t let it go.”
The couple are as a result of dance collectively of their “Symphony of Dance” nationwide tour kicking off Sept. 28 and Hough will take up judging duties for ABC’s “DWTS” this fall.
As for his or her first dance on the wedding ceremony, Erbert informed Brides journal the second could be a private one amid knowledgeable profession.
“We carry out for a dwelling, so we simply need this dance to be for us,” she stated. “We do not need to carry out for anybody else.”
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“We need to really feel good and comfy, however we do not should be excellent,” Hough added to Brides. “That is rather a lot much less essential to me than simply trying into her eyes as we’re rocking backwards and forwards. I need to really feel really current in that second.”
Individuals reported the couple’s first dance was to “Fall Into Me” by Forest Blakk, which happened on an vintage mirrored ground with a fog machine.
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