

Caelynn Miller-Keyes bucked custom and walked herself down the marriage aisle on her method to marry Dean Unglert.
“We had such an intimate, easy ceremony,” Miller-Keyes, 28, defined of her determination by way of her Instagram Story on Thursday, September 28. “Our officiant walked down, Dean walked down, Dean’s brother walked [our dog] Al down after which it was me. It simply form of made sense for us to stroll alone.”
Miller-Keyes additional famous that she didn’t “actually assume” about her alternative on their marriage ceremony day. “It was simply form of an apparent factor,” she stated. “It simply made sense.”
Miller-Keyes and Unglert, 32, — who’re each altering their final names to Bell in honor of his late mother — acquired married on Saturday, September 23, in Meredith, Colorado. The ceremony solely had 75 company, which included their households and associates from Bachelor Nation together with Ben Higgins, Becca Tilley, Wells Adams and Ashley Iaconetti.
Unglert, for his half, additionally didn’t see the necessity to stroll down the aisle with anybody. “As a result of we’re sturdy, unbiased individuals and we don’t want anybody to stroll us down,” he stated in his bride’s social media video.
Unglert even had a dialogue with the pair’s marriage ceremony officiant concerning the alternative as a method to attempt to “undo a variety of the gender normative issues” that happen at many weddings.
“The idea of, like, handing away this lady to marry this man appeared form of antiquated to me,” he quipped, which Miller-Keyes cosigned.
After they arrived on the altar of their camp-themed marriage ceremony, they acquired emotional seeing one another all dressed up.
“We needed that second of us seeing one another down the aisle for the primary time to be actual,” she captioned a second Instagram Story slide on Thursday, revealing they didn’t need to do “first look” photographs earlier than the ceremony. “I do know individuals do it and adore it, however this made sense for us. I began crying instantly.”
Throughout the celebration, each Miller-Keyes and Unglert recited their significant, personalised vows.
“I don’t bear in mind any particular traces as a result of I blacked out [from] nervousness,” Unglert joked on Thursday, driving the newlyweds dwelling from their “mini” honeymoon. “I simply bear in mind feeling so at peace after which love.”
Miller-Keyes, for her half, cherished that Unglert’s vows referenced how he included his mother into their engagement and a selected line the place he stated that he feels “like he has a goal in life with marrying me.” She gushed: “It was very candy!”
Miller-Keyes and Unglert first linked on the Bachelor in Paradise seaside throughout season 6. After three years collectively, the Bachelorette alum proposed.