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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9. Jesse Csincsak and Ann Lueders
These two did techinically meet because of The Bachelor, but not in a conventional sense. Jesse was the recipient of DeAnna’s final rose in the fourth season of The Bachelorette, but after a four-month relationship, they split up. He then met Ann, the first woman to get eliminated from Jason Mesnick’s season of The Bachelor during a Bachelor/Bachelorette reunion cruise. They married in Las Vegas in 2010. At the time of their wedding, Ann was four months pregnant with their first child, Noah Theodore. They went on to have two more children, Carter James and Charlotte Jean. Photo by Instagram/anncsincsak. | Instagram/anncsincsak Photo: Instagram/anncsincsak
10. Peyton Wright and Chris Lambton
Peyton Wright and Chris Lambton are another couple who met at a Bachelor cast party, having both failed to find love on their respective seasons. Peyton was on the 10th season of The Bachelor in 2007 and got turned down by Andy Baldwin, meanwhile Chris was among the two finalists vying for Ali Fedotowsky’s hand in the sixth series of The Bachelorette of 2010. They got married in 2012 and have two children, Lyla and Hayes. Photo by Instagram/@peytonlambton. | Instagram/@peytonlambton
11. Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon
Ashley Iaconetti and Jared Haibon didn't have the easiest path to love. They met during season 2 of Bachelor in Paradise, but it took more than two years for them to officially become a couple. They got engaged during production for season 5 of Bachelor in Paradise in 2018. They got married the following year and went on to have two sons, Dawson and Hayden. Photo by Instagram/@ashley_iaconetti. | Instagram/@ashley_iaconetti
12. Arie Luyendyk Junior and Lauren Burnham
One of the most controversial moments in Bachelor history came with the two-part finale of Arie’s Bachelor season in 2017. He proposed to Becca Kufrin, but then took it back, and chose runner-up Lauren instead - all in just two nights. They went on to wed 2019, and now have three children; daughter Alessi and twins, Senna and Lux. Photo by Instagram/@laurenluyendyk. | Instagram/@laurenluyendyk Photo: Instagram/@laurenluyendyk