Desiree Hartsock and Chris Siegfried are one in all 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. Through the season, Hartsock was briefly left heartbroken when Brooks Forester stop the present after making the ultimate three.
The designer subsequently accepted a proposal from Siegfried in the course of 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 all the time wanted was proper in entrance of me,” Hartsock informed Siegfried in the course of the closing rose ceremony. “You could have been by my aspect from the very starting … I thanks day by day for by no means giving up. And also you imply absolutely the world to me. I like you. I like you a lot.”
Siegfried was thrilled by the love declaration. “You make me need to be a greater individual, and I need to spend the remainder of my life with you,” he informed 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 means of for his or her full relationship timeline: