Golden Bachelor Gerry Turner and his fiancée, Theresa Nist, tied the knot in a televised wedding ceremony on Thursday, January 4, one month after their finale aired.
“I like your coronary heart, your soul. I like your smiles, your laughter. Now we have a lot enjoyable collectively. We chuckle till we cry,” Theresa stated throughout her vows. “Now we have that very same, deep love of household. Now we have a lot like to share and now so many extra individuals to share it with. I promise to be your calm in a storm, to consolation you whenever you’re unhappy, chuckle with you whenever you’re joyful, and to stay with you all through all of it, however most of all, to have enjoyable and to get pleasure from for the remainder of the time we’ve got left on this Earth, which might be one other hour. I like you with all of my coronary heart and I can not wait to be your spouse.”
Gerry echoed her love with sentimental phrases of his personal.
“I’ve realized that you’re the girl I can’t stay with out. I realized that you just make me calm with the contact of your hand. I’ve realized you make me chuckle with the simple consolation of a long-lost pal,” he stated throughout his vows. “I’ve realized you’re a sturdy and unbiased girl, and your energy provides me pleasure. I’ve realized that you just make me a greater particular person, a greater man due to your sensitivity and mushy voice. Theresa, I now know I’ve discovered a full accomplice to share the experiences life will throw at us.”
There was greater than 50 Bachelor Nation company in attendance in Palm Springs on Thursday, together with Trista and Ryan Sutter, Jason and Molly Mesnick, Desiree and Chris Siegfried, Raven Gates and Adam Gottschalk, Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert, Kenny Braasch and Mari Pepin, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Tayshia Adams, Charity Lawson and present Bachelor Joey Graziadei.
Gerry, 72, and Theresa, 70, met and fell in love throughout season 1 of The Golden Bachelor. The couple acquired engaged in the course of the November 2023 finale and introduced on the stay After the Ultimate Rose particular that they’d trade vows on TV in January 2024.
“We’re outdated! Give it some thought this manner: You’ll be able to wait a 12 months in your 20s as a result of that is perhaps three % of your remaining life,” Gerry stated on the “Bachelor Joyful Hour” podcast in November 2023 of his and Theresa’s determination to wed sooner fairly than later. “While you’re in your 70s, a 12 months might be 10 % or 20 % of the time you might have left.”
Previous to his proposal airing, Gerry confessed that he was hesitant to remarry after the 2017 demise of his first spouse, Toni.
“As I used to be relationship [before the show], I used to be in search of the person who I might spend the remainder of my life with whatever the label,” he completely informed Us Weekly in October 2023. “And as I acquired nearer and nearer to the method began within the present, I actually type of got here to comprehend that I did certainly wish to be married, that I wished that dedication, that two-way road. And in order I acquired into the present, that was my goal.”
As soon as Gerry and Theresa’s engagement was public data, they opened up about planning their nuptials.
“Now we have daughters who’re so concerned,” Theresa defined to Folks in December 2023. “My daughter, she’s seen 1,000,000 weddings and she or he is unimaginable. She’s put collectively the imaginative and prescient board. She’s asking me, ‘Do you want this? Do you want this?’ And I am going, ‘Wow, OK, I don’t even have to do that. That is superior.’ She’s dealing with it just about.”
Gerry, for his half, was keen to provide Theresa full management over their large day.
“I can simply hear the enjoyment in her voice after I discuss to her and she or he’s speaking about whether or not it’s a costume or a cake or flowers or no matter it’s,” he gushed. “It makes me so joyful that she’s having this a lot of a great time with it. It’s like, what might be extra enjoyable?”
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As for his or her future collectively, Theresa detailed what the pair have been wanting ahead to probably the most.
“I might say discovering a house collectively and creating that dwelling that everybody would wish to come to — our whole household, our buddies — and simply exploring life collectively and having adventures, happening trip collectively and having a enjoyable, unimaginable, fantastic life,” she stated. “We really feel like we’re going to have the perfect lives collectively.”
That features merging their respective households. Gerry is the daddy of daughters Jenny Younger and Angie Turner, whereas Theresa has a son, Tommy Nist, and a daughter, Jen Woolston. In December 2023, Gerry shared a photograph of their grownup youngsters through Instagram with the caption, “Going to be a really Gerry Christmas with Theresa and our blended household.”