Football Fiancee! Bachelor’s Sydney Hightower on Fred Warner Wedding Plans

From roses to footballs! Bachelor alum Sydney Hightower is making ready to stroll down the aisle with San Francisco 49ers star Fred Warner and she or he’s sharing the unique particulars with Us Weekly.

“Playoffs, marriage ceremony, it’s wild over right here!” the season 24 contestant, 26, started on the Tuesday, January 18, episode of Us’ “Right here for the Proper Causes” podcast.

Hightower and Warner, 25, met after she competed for Peter Weber’s affections on the ABC collection. The skilled athlete slid into her DMS — “He truly despatched me an emoji [because] he didn’t assume I used to be gonna reply and that’s why he acquired actually informal, however it was candy” — and the pair acquired engaged in Might 2021. Because the 49ers concentrate on the NFL playoffs, Hightower is in full marriage ceremony planning mode as they put together to tie the knot in California later this yr.

“Planning a marriage throughout soccer season and now we’re in playoffs, he’s not concerned. It’s effective, he trusts me, we each have the identical style,” she advised Us with amusing. “He’s giving me the reins on that and it hasn’t been as aggravating as I might have thought it will be. It’s been extra enjoyable. I’m simply excited for it to all simply come to an finish and us simply be there on that day.”

Hightower added that she has her costume, shopping for a robe that she tried on the primary day she began buying. “I used to be simply so able to get the method going. I used to be like, ‘I don’t need this to tug out, like, I simply wish to examine issues off my checklist,’” she recalled. “I undoubtedly thought I used to be gonna go a unique route than I did, that’s for positive. I might by no means have thought I might see that and be like, Oh that’s the one,’ undoubtedly not.”

The Alabama native famous that she and Warner are “each criers” so she’s anticipating an emotional marriage ceremony day.

“[We’re both] sappy romantics. So we’re simply fascinated about the second once I’m strolling down and all of that, like, tearjerker stuff. That’s my favourite half,” she mentioned. “And it’s simply being there with our households. I feel that’s the second and the sensation that I’m wanting ahead to essentially the most.”

Within the meantime, Hightower is Warner’s greatest fan on the soccer discipline, giving Us an replace on her man after he was injured throughout the 49ers Sunday, January 16, win towards the Dallas Cowboys.

“It’s undoubtedly exhausting. It’s not straightforward as you assume it will be, you already know, all the things’s going nice for almost all of the sport and it solely takes one second for all the things to alter,” she advised Us of watching Warner play. “So it undoubtedly humbles you, and allows you to know that that is undoubtedly a blessing to have the ability to do, however it’s additionally very aggravating for the numerous different. It’s simply taking the great with the unhealthy. So fortunately, he’s OK and wholesome, and all the things’s good to go. However yeah, when these little moments do occur of uncertainty and seeing him damage, and you don’t have any means of serving to, it’s undoubtedly not straightforward.”