Dean Bell and Caelynn Bell are celebrating a serious milestone second.
“We’re officially colorado residents! living in the best place in the world: the roaring fork valley,” Dean, 32, and Caelynn, 28, wrote in a joint Instagram submit on Saturday, January 13. “It’s funny how when i was a kid all i wanted to do was get out of here. now that i’m old and blonde, i wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.”
Alongside their submit, the twosome shared a collection of snaps posing whereas sitting on chairs outdoors their new dwelling. Dean, for his half, held up a “Welcome to colorful Colorado” signal, whereas Caelynn threw her arms up with a bottle of champagne.
The social media replace comes simply 4 months after the pair tied the knot in Meredith, Colorado, with numerous Bachelor Nation alums in attendance.
Dean and Caelynn celebrated their September nuptials in some untraditional methods, together with each altering their final names to Bell in honor of his late mother and each strolling themselves down the aisle. (Dean and Caelynn beforehand glided by Unglert and Miller-Keyes, respectively.)
“We had such an intimate, simple ceremony,” she defined through Instagram Story in September 2023. “Our officiant walked down, Dean walked down, Dean’s brother walked [our dog] Al down and then it was me. It just kind of made sense for us to walk alone.”
Caelynn added that she didn’t “really think” about her alternative, saying that it was “just kind of an obvious thing” and “just made sense.”
Dean, for his half, agreed along with her choice, saying within the video, “Because we’re strong, independent people and we don’t need anyone to walk us down.”
Prior to the marriage, Dean had a dialogue with their officiant in regards to the concept of attempting to “undo a lot of the gender normative things” that happen when many tie the knot.
“The concept of, like, handing away this girl to marry this man seemed kind of antiquated to me,” he mentioned. When arriving on the altar, the twosome have been emotional seeing one another.
“We wanted that moment of us seeing each other down the aisle for the first time to be real,” she captioned a second Instagram Story slide on the time, revealing they didn’t wish to do “first look” photographs earlier than the ceremony. “I know people do it and love it, but this made sense for us. I started crying immediately.”
Both Dean and Caelynn recited their very own vows, which Dean joked he doesn’t bear in mind as a result of he “blacked out [from] nervousness.” He added that he felt “so at peace and then love.”
Dean and Caelynn first met throughout Bachelor in Paradise season 6, the place they broke up however then proceeded to depart the seashores of Mexico collectively. After greater than three years collectively, Caelynn proposed to Dean.
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