Desiree Hartsock and Chris Siegfried are one in every of Bachelor Nation’s uncommon success tales.
Hartsock first competed for Sean Lowe’s coronary heart on season 17 of The Bachelor, which aired in 2013. After making it to the hometown dates, the bridal stylist was despatched packing. Whereas Lowe ended up marrying winner Catherine Giudici, Hartsock was named the ninth Bachelorette. In the course of the season, Hartsock was briefly left heartbroken when Brooks Forester give up the present after making the ultimate three.
The designer subsequently accepted a proposal from Siegfried through the August 2013 finale.
“I really feel like I used to be blindsided by my emotions for Brooks, that I couldn’t see that the one factor I at all times wanted was proper in entrance of me,” Hartsock instructed Siegfried through the closing rose ceremony. “You might have been by my facet from the very starting … I thanks day-after-day for by no means giving up. And also you imply absolutely the world to me. I really like you. I really like you a lot.”
Siegfried was thrilled by the love declaration. “You make me need to be a greater particular person, and I need to spend the remainder of my life with you,” he instructed her earlier than he bought down on one knee. “I don’t need to make choices for me anymore; I need to make choices for you, and us, and our lives collectively.”
They wed in January 2015. Scroll by way of for his or her full relationship timeline: