Bachelor Happy Hour - Zach & Kaity: Meant to Be — Part 2

Episode Date: June 12, 2025

Today on “Happy Hour,” we’re diving right back into part two of our exclusive sit-down with newlyweds Zach and Kaity! We kick off with a big question: Is Austin forever for them? Then, we jump back to the wedding day, getting all the beautiful little details. From Zach’s 007-style tux to Kaity’s magical earrings formerly worn by First Lady Michelle Obama, we’re getting a closer look at all the wedding day attire. Kaity shares how she found her ceremony dress and what she opted to wear for their intimate celebration. Plus, we get to hear all about their vows, including a look back at their proposal speeches when their love story officially took off. Tune in now and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And we are. Back for part two with Zach and Katie. Hey, guys. Let's get into it. Okay, so going back, as far as the home you're looking for, do you have like a set amount of bedrooms that you have to have? Four. Four.

Okay. Four, only because one's going to be an office. One's going to be the main bedroom, baby room, and then guest room. We need four. Yeah. You need four. Yeah. It's so different looking for a home than an apartment.

I mean, yeah, because you have to think long term. You have to be able to grow into it. Whereas when you're renting an apartment knowing you're only going to be there for two to three years, it's just like, what do we need right now? When I talked to one of you last time, you mentioned you weren't sure if Austin was long term. Is Austin long term now? Because I thought you weren't you guys in a place where you like were, you weren't sure? Yeah. I think we've settled on Austin for the next like five, six years.

years for sure. However, I don't know if I'll be able to handle the heat after the six years. So I honestly, I'm very attracted to the Carolinas, North Carolina specifically. However, when that hurricane came through, that obviously kind of like shifted our perspective into moving there and growing a family there. So I think we'll just, we're going to figure it out. Obviously, California would be incredible, but we're not millionaires, unfortunately. Yeah. It's expensive.

We'll see. But I don't love the winters. You don't love the winters in Texas? No, I'm just saying, like, if we were to move to a different state, I don't want to be in a state or country that has really... Hence why we wouldn't necessarily go back to Canada. Okay, so you don't want the cold and you don't want the heat. So what the fuck?

Well, no. How are we going to figure this? out. Like California is the only place you live. North Carolina is like a muted winter. So it's not like extreme cold and it's not an extreme heat. So that's why it'd be perfect. And you get the mountains. I love being at the ocean.

You could do Seattle. I feel like Seattle has like, no. You don't want to go to Seattle. Oh, rainy. No sun. No sun. Okay. So no no heat, rain or cold. Do you have friends? Do you guys have friends in do you have friends in North Carolina? No. No, we've actually

never been. We have this idea. Yeah, it loves it. But I feel like you had this issue with like Denver, Colorado. Didn't you want to move there and you went and visit? And you were like, ah, maybe not. Utah. Yeah. Utah.

See, I'm similar. I'm similar in that sense where like I want to like, I think that we should move to Austin. Yeah. And we've never been. Austin sounds good. Austin is so fun. Like it is, it is an amazing city. And that's why like we ended up being here so long.

Yeah, being here so long. and see ourselves here for a while. So we'll see. Like maybe we do stay here. I don't know. But it's Texas for right now. And then spread our wings if we need to. All right.

Well, let's circle back to some more wedding stuff. Let's get into this. What? I was just laughing. In case, you know, everyone that's listening will keep you posted if they move to Riley. In the next seven.

plus years. But all right, tell us about the dress, what you wore, how you decided. Okay. So I was actually going to go with like a very simple anthropology dress. And then I was like, I was set on that. And then I ended up going into pronovias. I think I'm pronouncing that right in Austin because I was like, oh, I'm not going to get like that try on wedding dress feeling. So I was like, oh, I'll just book an appointment and then we'll just have some fun and I'll figure it out. Ended up falling in love with a dress at Pernobias. And yeah, so that's where I got my dress from. Originally, I wanted this like very simple.

I always wanted a simple, elegant dress. And I didn't want a strapless until I tried on a strapless dress. And I ended up falling in love with the cut of it. and it was still so elegant, so simple. And I also love the color of it too because it wasn't like a crisp white. It was kind of like an off white. I like that. Yeah.

I like an off white. Yeah. And I just felt truly so beautiful and I felt like a little princess in it. So that's new. And then I got very emotional with it on as well. And at the time my friends were there. and they were crying too so it was like it was like that moment where you're like wow this is the dress so yeah beautiful yeah what did you wear zach uh i just wore a black tucks uh from state and liberty um and everything was

state and liberty i think except the shoes which i don't know but uh suit supply was your white oh my white dress shirt was suit supply and then everything else stayed in liberty yeah yeah yeah yeah he kind of looked like James Bond. Little James. A little bit. But the whole vibe of the wedding that we were going for was kind of like vintage, old money kind of vibe. We have like our film photography as well, which you'll see. So yeah, it was just, it was just really classic, simple, old school kind of vibe, which is what I wanted.

That's amazing. Do you wear the dress the whole night or did you change it all? Um, no, I didn't wear it to, uh, the restaurant. I actually changed into a different dress at night from Sherry Hill. And it was stunning. It was like all pearls on it and beaded and glitzy. And then shoes were amazing. I love them. They were from Bella Bell or Bell. Yes. Wait, I know it. I think I had a pair of shoes from them too for my wedding. Oh my God. So comfy. I love that. Yeah. Shoes I wore for my actual ceremony were Betsy Johnson and they were awesome and because the dress was so simple the shoe was so beautiful because it had like a little bit of glitz on it so it kind of popped I love

them and they were so comfy you have to tell them about your earrings you wore and who wore them before you oh yeah yeah yeah so um the earrings were like the main thing that I was like trying to go after after I tried on that wedding dress at Pernovia's I went over to Kendra Scott and I was like oh, maybe I'll find something in here. I ended up falling in love with these earrings. And I was like, can I see these? Like, how much are these? They're like, oh, they're $10,000.

I was like, oh, my God. 10 grand. Wait, where was this? Kendra Scott. Oh, Kendra Scott. Austin, yeah. In Canada, I've never heard of the jewelry company, but is really big here in Austin.

And I have a really good friend that actually works for Kendra Scott and she's quite high up. So she actually pulled some strings and she made it work. And she was actually on the phone with me and she's like the only other person that's like had these earrings is Michelle Obama. Wow.

What? We found the photo where your mom found the photo of Michelle wearing the earrings that she wore on our wedding. Yeah. No way. Were they the same style? Not the exact same earrings. They're the exact same ones. Yeah. Well, that's what that's what that's what court told me. I have

and looked at the photo or anything like that, but so crazy. Yeah, it sounds like the exact ones, not a similar one. The same one brought back to Kendra. So crazy. Yeah. That is so cool. Oh, my gosh. The ceremony was done.

They're like, we need to come pick up those earrings. It's like, absolutely, whatever you need, I'll drive them to you. But I love the earrings so much. They went with the dress perfectly. They were just, they were perfect. Yeah. Oh, that's amazing. maybe like a 15 year wedding anniversary gift

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Listen to the new season of Grasasas Come Again as part of my Cultura podcast network on the IHartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. Um, vows, did you guys do vows? Yes, we did. I actually, funny you say that. Um, I actually wrote the second half of my vows when Zach was laying next to me. He wasn't looking at them, obviously. it was so much easier when I had not saying that it was hard but it was just so easier to find

the words and like really describe the man that he is while you were looking at him writing yeah yeah I knew she was doing it too because I was I would be like oh my god this is great I wouldn't see I wouldn't be able to if I was Zach in that situation I would have I would feel too uncomfortable I was really hard I would I didn't want to see it. Like that was, I was like, I wanted to be surprised,

but I'll be here to like, uh, be your just like, or news for it. Yeah. I thought it was, I thought it was sweet that she did that. Yeah.

And I was right in mine just like pen and paper, you know, days before. And then we just, and we actually had these, um, little vow books too that were super cute from. Yeah.

A called Keeper. I think it was. Um, and it was, it was just awesome. It was really sweet. We read those publicly. So we didn't do private vows.

We didn't have public vows. Yeah. Having having to have the little like vow books is so important because like having to you're so, you're so, like, you're excited. You're also like just so nervous in that moment to think to like have to remember your vows is, is hard. It's a pain. Actually, it's a pain in the ass. Yeah.

I would not have been able to do it. But then I reflect back to my speech on The Bachelor. And I was like, I don't know. how I memorized that or yeah it's hard yeah because I think you spoke from the heart like you had something when you were proposing but actually I memorized mine too yeah I got stressed you in front of cameras and I'm somebody who giggles a lot and I did that with a straight face so well they they printed mine someone else typed it up and printed it and they were like you guys were supposed to go third like for the proposals on paradise because there's multiple in one day

and they were like but they just bumped you up you're going second now you have to like get in your dress get in the car so I memorized mine on the way over to the proposal and I remember standing in front of you I mean like you were acting wax so like I was kind of distracted but like I was like I was like I remember thinking like I cannot believe that I can remember this right now like how how did I remember this well because I it's a whole thing Because, and I think it's also because like we're, we're filming a television show. Everything's just like, you really have to be like in it. And like it's like very intense.

So you're just kind of, I think you're just like so on that you're like, I'm fighting through the nerves and fighting through everything. It's also your own words, your own thoughts. It's not like you're like memorizing a page of a book. Like you're memorizing something that like you. But like on our wedding day, no way I would have memorized. Yeah. Did you read them at the.

ceremony to each other, like in front of family and friends? Yeah. Yes. Did you guys do a first look or anything or like a walk down the aisle? Like what was the format? Yeah, we didn't actually do a first look. Not a formal first look, but really the first time I saw her was when she walked down the eye.

Yeah. So I never saw her dress. My brother walked me down like this path, which you see in the video, which was so beautiful that in itself was like really sweet that he was there. Um, and then I remember, like, just, I'm about to turn the corner to see Zach, and I literally just stop and just like broke down in tears because I was like, oh my God, like, it all just kind of like caught up to me. He was like, I'm going to walk down. Yeah. So I'll in front of you and marry you.

And then I turned the corner and I see his little bubble eye here. Immediately. I saw her about 50 to 60 yards across the corner and immediately saw her in a white dress. tears. I was like, oh, shit, there she is. Yeah. Well, it's like, yeah, it's a big moment. And you know, really, especially, like, you guys did a smaller chapel wedding.

And I'm assuming you probably thought, like, because even when we did the courthouse, I remember thinking like, okay, like, this is just like, this isn't going to be emotional. Like, it's just not going to be. and then you're in there and you're like whoa like fuck this is heavy this is like happening right now yeah no yeah when we're at the courthouse like I wasn't thinking it wasn't thinking

and then all of a sudden they started like reading the stuff and I was just like tears I was like oh my God we're getting married yeah oh yeah no it's such a beautiful moment like at the start of the podcast I truly wish I could relive that day over and over again and it's just also so special to have your loved ones there too like you guys know like my family's from canada it's from

california so just even to like see my family and have them here was huge and then just to like witness our love and like from the start it's crazy emotional did you have like a favorite moment i would honestly when i turned the corner and saw his eyes yeah that would probably be the biggest most special moment and when my brother also like walked me down the little path but yeah just seeing you and I'm like that's my man yeah I'm gonna marry you the this ceremony was like the most perfect moment ever I felt like I was taught Turner in the car after I was like there's not a better day than this like this is a perfect day I'm the happiest I've ever been like that ceremony was no other words for oh that's amazing

I'm so happy to hear that I'm happy everyday day before it's been that day we're going what would you say your biggest and or only regret

was the DJ booth during the speeches or is there anything else you would have changed looking back yeah yeah I think just not

take their honeymoon and the DJ booth during the speeches not taking your honeymoon right after the wedding i honestly i really wish we were on a honeymoon right now just like days in this moment um but honestly and as corny as it sounds like every day is like a honeymoon with him it's so fun like it's that that was really corny just see here we love each other so much like just getting to wake up with him every single day is just so fun and whether on a trip or whether we're waking up in our home it's it's still special but i would love to be on a beach yeah like having a drink in my hand yeah yeah do you think you'll do a

mini moon um yeah we're actually going to do a mini moon in cabo at this resort called i'm blanking on the next the conrad thanks it looks like a really beautiful place. Yeah. Like really. Los Cabo's Resort, I think it's called. When are you guys doing that? We're looking at end of September, early October.

Just because I have to be in Canada for my best friend's wedding. And there's another wedding. And Zach's sister is getting married. And July. So there's just a lot of traveling and we just didn't have. It's hard. Like now, like, I just feel like, you know, we all go on this show we meet people that are from different places and then we're all around

like this age where everyone's getting married and you're just constantly are going to weddings like we have like we have to travel for like five weddings a year and like every wedding whether it's a destination wedding or not it's a destination wedding yeah it's like always a destination wedding but I do love going to weddings like yeah they're so fun being around love is just so beautiful it's so sweet and it's emotional okay um Now that you guys are a, like a fully, not that you weren't successful, but now you're a married couple from the franchise. What advice do you have for these couples that are now coming off of these newer seasons?

Oh, wow. I think the biggest thing, and we've talked about it since we've gotten off the show, is you're going to be distracted by a lot of things going on, a lot of voices, a lot of people talking about you, you're going to be the center of attention. your number one priority if you want it to work should be your partner and you have to emphasize that you have to work to that and remind you know your partner and yourself that this is why you're together not for all this extra cool fun stuff you can do all that but make an effort to love your partner as much as you can and that's how you'll get over and through all these you know crazy stuff but that's my thing just focus on your partner that's it and be just who you are like I feel like some sometimes you can see people change, you know, when they get in front of the media or anything like that. But like from the get go, we were always ourselves. And we also weren't, we aren't a very, like, yes, we're in the public, but we're also private. We don't let everything out there, which I think is smart. That can help. Yeah, in a very public relationship to keep

some of your life private like it doesn't matter about views and engagement like at the end of the day it is your relationship that matters not social media yeah yeah i agree i agree i think there's a lot of i think it i think the lines get skewed a little with like making money and like sometimes couples come off the show and you're able to do really well financially but it's like is this now a relationship or is this a job like what are we doing and then you feel like the need to keep up and keep posting and then it's like it becomes like even when we when we first got together after the show um we had the conversation i was like i don't want to ever feel forced to post a couple photo or post like shit about us because i don't want to fall into that trap right for you same

exact way and I think even like um just like through the great fine I've heard that you know like some couples are like why did you get this deal and I didn't or you're getting that rate why didn't I so I'm like we have never had that problem and we never will like we will make sure that never happens but just like yeah it's like you were saying like it's a bonus like whatever happens on the side with social media cool great that's awesome but at the end of the day we both have our own jobs We're a normal couple, and we love each other so much. And that's what matters. Yeah.

We are at the forefront always. Nice. Yeah, I agree. I think that's, I feel like most of the couples that came off the show and, like, made it through that first year, that is the core piece of advice. And, like, that is the common thread between all of us is like, yeah, you just have to put your relationship first. Like, there's so many distractions, so many opportunities. You could be on different flights in different cities for, like, the next six months if you wanted to be. or you could like be together and like the best thing you can do is just be together yeah and honestly

sometimes we'll get invited to things and we'll be like I kind of just I just rather be home with you yeah yeah yeah yeah how is all the normal life stuff how are the jobs how is the puppy it's been great uh I mean we've got the puppy somewhere around here she's she probably sleeping somewhere it's finally safe out awesome she's so smart she loves people she loves little kids oh yeah they're running across the street to chase random runners and kids oh my god yeah she ran after like a guy that looked like he was like training for a marathon or something she like booked it down the street let's trip them up and i was like oh wow but great work is good joined a new company back in um end of january oh congrats thank you thank you it's going really great i'm actually

funny enough working with my brother-in-law um oh no way yeah yeah he uh he uh he he uh he get me connected to them and the rest of his history. You're killing it. I think we met someone somewhere. I think we met, though. I'm serious. We met someone that said like you were working for their startup or they were part of this startup that had like six employees and you were one of them.

Yes. So that was my last company. I worked there for a year and a half. We were a mental health company. They loved their mission. We were doing good stuff there, but there was a point when I had joined, it was 150 employees total. And for the last seven months, there was seven of us. And I was the only one leading sales.

And it was me, the CEO and the CRO and a couple others. And we were, yeah, it was a rough couple months. And then we got Bob. So then I was like, all right, time for a new job. There you go. Nice. And he loves his boss so much. Yeah, yeah.

got a great boss great team co-workers are cool so yeah that's kind of what i've been doing yeah i'm just nursing still but i do want to go to um like laboring delivery still something to do with babies which i think will also be really great with our transition later down the road with like having a family because like in nursing school you don't really hone in a lot on like pediatrics or neonatal. So I really want to do that. Because people will be like, Katie, what do I do when my baby's doing this? I'm like, I don't know.

I have no idea what the baby's doing. So, yeah, I think it'll be awesome. And just the floor that I'm on right now, which is oncology, it's sad. It's just very sad. So I just need to get out of that. And to be in a little bit of a happier environment. Yeah. You deserve it.

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