It was March 2002 when the first season of The Bachelor aired. Since then, it’s been a huge success with viewers. The 29th series has just aired with Bachelor Grant Ellis, and there have also been several spin-off series launched over the years.
These include The Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad, Bachelor in Paradise, Bachelor in Paradise: After Paradise, The Bachelor Winter Games, The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart, The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons – Ever!, The Golden Bachelor, and The Golden Bachelorette,
Countless buds of romance have started on all the shows in it’s more than two decade long history, and many of them have fully blossomed in to fully fledged relationships.
Click through our gallery below to see the 27 couples who are still together from across The Bachelor nation - including the couples whose love only deepened when they shared the final rose, and those who weren’t exactly first choice but won the heart of their beloved in the end.
Plus, there’s more than one couple who didn’t meet on-screen and didn’t even share the same series, but fate still brought them together. Keep reading to find out all you need to know.
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5. Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert
Jade Roper and Tanner Tolbert met and got engaged during season 2 of Bachelor in Paradise. They married in another televised wedding special in 2016. They share three children; a daughter called Emmy, 7, and sons Brooks, 5, and Reed, 4. They also experienced a miscarriage in August 2023. Photo by Getty Images. | Getty Images Photo: Getty Images
6. Raven Gates and Adam Gottschalk
Raven Gates and Adam Gottschalk walked out of season four of Bachelor in Paradise together. While they didn’t get engaged in the 2017 finale, they ended up getting married in April 2021 and welcomed their first child together, a son called Gates, in January 2022. They had a second baby, another boy called Max, in August 2023. Photo by Instagram/@ravennicolegates. | Instagram/@ravennicolegates
7. Holly Durst and Blake Julian
Holly Durst and Blake Julian got engaged after meeting on Bachelor Pad - the Bachelor spin-off that came before Bachelor in Paradise - in 2011. The start of their romance was complicated as Durst actually won the show with former fiancé Michael Stagliano - and he found out on camera during the finale about her engagement to Julian. The pair have stoo the test of time, however. They married in 2012 and live in South Carolina with their adopted children, Poppy and Knox. Photo by Instagram/@hollyjulian. | Instagram/@hollyjulian Photo: Instagram/@hollyjulian
8. Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney
After initially picking Melissa Rycroft as the recipient of his final rose in 2009, season 13 Bachelor Jason revealed on the "After the Final Rose" reunion show that he had broken up with Melissa to date runner-up Molly Malaney instead. They married in a 2010 televised ceremony and Molly gave birth to their daughter Riley in 2013. Photo by Instagram/@mollymesnick. | Instagram/@mollymesnick Photo: Instagram/@mollymesnick