In the 10 years Say Yes to the Dress aboriginal aired on TLC, hundreds of brides accept chock-full into Kleinfeld's bells dress boutique on their way to the aisle. Some had adored endings and, for others, the bells clothes lasted best than the marriage. Here, bristles of the show's best memorable brides allotment area they are now:
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"I was on the appearance about six years ago and I still get Facebook letters every time my adventure comes on a rerun. The aboriginal catechism is usually, 'Was your dress free?' And, of course, the acknowledgment is, 'No.' Again they ask, 'Well, did you get a discount?' And the acknowledgment is, 'I got a little bit and they covered my taxes [on the dress] and my airfare.' The third best accepted catechism is, 'How did you get on the show?' And I say, 'Well, I aloof activated like everybody else!'
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Married activity is acceptable — we’ll be affiliated bristles years this May and we accept two kids — Savannah is 3 and Aiden is 10 months — and my bedmate [former Denver Broncos advanced receiver Andre Caldwell] has played in two Super Bowls. My bedmate and I don’t absolutely get too abundant abandoned time! I started an autogenous architecture close two years ago alleged Caldwell Home and Interiors. And my bedmate started his own branding company. We still haven’t done a amusement yet, and we’re acquisitive we can do that this year."
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“My activity has afflicted absolutely a bit aback activity on Say Yes to the Dress. Aback I went on the show, I was affianced to the actuality I went to the Boston Chase with. We had watched his mom run in the race. [Editor's note: In 2013, two bombs went off abreast the accomplishment band of the Boston Marathon. Due to injuries from the blast, Rebekah's leg afterwards had to be amputated and her then-boyfriend, Pete DiMartino, suffered a burst eardrum, and burst abate and absent his appropriate Achilles tendon.] My [now] ex and I had been dating aloof a brace of months above-mentioned to the chase bombing, and we were additionally long-distance. I anticipate aback you go through a tragedy like that, you feel like you’re destined to be with the actuality you went through it with. Once the dust settled, and we got affiliated and confused in together, I accomplished abominably he was not the actuality I had in my mind. It was affecting and it was adverse and it was additionally awkward because I had gone on Say Yes to the Dress and had fabricated the assurance and bells this big accessible thing. But I had to accomplish the accommodation to cut him out of my life, because that was what was best for me and what was best for my son.
About a year later, I affiliated with an old academy admirer on Facebook. We met up for banquet aloof as accompany and he basically told me that I was the one who got abroad from him aback we bankrupt up at age 18 and he wasn’t activity to let that appear again. We got affiliated on the bank in Jamaica on December 22, 2015.
For the bells this time around, I did things the way I had envisioned them. I capital article small, so we eloped on the beach. I went to a dress boutique and I best out article that I acquainted admirable in. There was no burden from anybody abroad cogent me, 'This is what you should wear' or 'This is what you attending acceptable in.' And there wasn’t that accent and anarchy and animated actuality with it like with the aboriginal one. I anticipate that’s how I accomplished this is right. I feel abashed that I didn’t get it appropriate that aboriginal time, but I’m so adored to accept the befalling to do it again. Actuality we are, a year-and-a-half afterwards with a nine-month-old babe and I accept a book advancing out in April — and I’m in the best abode I’ve anytime been. I’ve got a bedmate who loves me for me and it doesn't amount that I’m missing a leg or if I absorb best of my canicule in a wheelchair. He’s the one who absolutely accepts me for aggregate that I’ve been through."
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“My acquaintance on the appearance was crazy because my now-husband proposed to me that morning — the accomplished affair was a surprise. He and I had planned a cruise to New York and he says he was Googling account on how to adduce and article came up saying, 'Would you be absorbed in proposing in NYC on a TV show?' A casting ambassador alleged him and it snowballed from here. The morning he proposed, cameras popped out of corners and the two consultants popped out and were like, 'Are you accessible to boutique for a dress?' I’ve watched our adventure maybe two times in its entirety, and I still can’t absolutely accept it happened.
Life aback the appearance has been chaotic. Eight months afterwards the wedding, my bedmate Jonathan, who is in the Air Force, was deployed for six months. He got aback in April and now we are in the action of accomplishing IVF for a babyish and it has been a lot added affecting than I anticipation it was activity to be. My bedmate had a vasectomy a few years ago because he has four accouchement from his antecedent marriage. He had a changeabout done, and it was unsuccessful. He had a additional anaplasty and we’re acquisitive that will accomplish IVF possible. I never anticipation we’d accept to go through these lengths to accept a baby."
"My adventure was the Season 6 premiere, and I had a white affair to watch with my accompany aback it aired. We all aggregate about and watched the show. It was terrible! I was like, 'Is that what I attending like in absolute life?'
My activity aback activity on the appearance keeps accepting bigger and better. I was afar in 2014 and my annulment was accomplished in 2016. I accept a new boyfriend. He’s my best acquaintance and my soulmate. We took it accessible because, aback we got together, I was aloof activity through my divorce. But we became abundant accompany and started a accord and accomplished that, hey, this is the actuality that I anticipate I appetite to absorb the blow of my activity with. Again we got abundant in January 2016 and we had a babyish boy October 1.
Marriage is in the future, but we do appetite to accept two kids. So, I’m like, able-bodied it’s not absolutely fair that [our baby] Jack is in the bells and again the additional babyish won’t be there. So I appetite to do babyish first. My dress would be absolutely altered this time about — now I appetite simple, I appetite sexy. I don’t charge the animation access that I capital for the aboriginal wedding."
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"I accept consistently been a big fan of the show, which is why we absitively to [apply to be on] it. I consistently thought, 'I don’t see any gay bodies on the show! They charge added atramentous lesbians on the show!' I get accustomed all the time and bodies consistently appetite to apperceive about my weight accident because I explained on the appearance that I was one ages out from gastric-bypass surgery. Before the appearance I was a admeasurement 30 and now I can fit a admeasurement 16 — I’m bottomward about 150 pounds.
Our alliance has been through a lot of trials and tribulations. Appropriate afterwards we got married, my wife Jacqueline went beeline to school. We didn’t accept a honeymoon. For two years, we were a single-income domiciliary afterwards actuality a two-income household.
I adulation aliment and I adulation eating, which started my weight problems. And afterwards my surgery, I couldn’t eat the aforementioned things, so I got affectionate of depressed. I was aching aliment and the accomplished amusing activating of aliment — like activity out to eat assertive things with friends. So I started advancing my own aliment and bodies admired what I was authoritative and they kept allurement me to baby events. Jacqueline and I started our accouterment aggregation focused on advantageous foods about three years ago. It’s been a blast."
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