Bachelor Nation’s Des and Chris Celebrate 7 Years of Marriage

It’s a love story, child, simply … settle for the ultimate rose. 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.

“I wished to come back again, as a result of I do know from first-hand expertise the emotions are very actual, and you actually can type a relationship from it,” she declared on the Could 2013 premiere episode. “All through this season, you’ll see I actually wished to ensure I used to be going to be the suitable individual for them, as effectively, as a result of I used to be actually conscious of that. I made positive if I’m not going to be the suitable individual for you, let me know. It’s all the time a two-way road.”

Through the season, Hartsock was briefly left heartbroken when Brooks Forester stop the present after making the ultimate three.

“I’m not damaged,” she insisted to host Chris Harrison after breaking down. “My coronary heart is perhaps, however my spirit hasn’t been damaged … I need to discover somebody to share my life with. I do, I actually do.”

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 remaining rose ceremony. “You might have been by my facet from the very starting … I thanks every single 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 individual, and I need to spend the remainder of my life with you,” he informed her earlier than he received 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.”

The twosome will rejoice 5 years of marriage in January 2020. Scroll by means of for his or her full relationship timeline: