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Necessary Realness: Is Love Really Blind?
Surprise! Love Is Blind's Jessica Batten is married.
More than 2 years aft her breakup with Mark Cuevas connected the debut play of the Netflix world show, Jessica has eloped with her spouse Dr. Ben McGrath, a podiatrist. The pair tied the knot successful a courtyard astatine a courthouse successful Santa Barbara, Calif. successful beforehand of conscionable 2 different couples, they told Brides in comments posted Sept. 16.
"8.24.22," Jessica and Ben wrote connected Instagram, alongside a photograph of herself with her husband. "Mr. & Mrs."
Ben besides wrote connected his Instagram Story, "Thank you for each the precise bully messages. It's been a fantastic 3 weeks. Blooded bliss. Three weeks. Is this. Bliss is this. We're ace excited to stock it with everyone finally."
Jessica wore a strapless lace bridal gown with an overskirt from Reem Acra's 2023 outpouring postulation and a agelong veil for the ceremonial earlier changing into a vintage Elliatt precocious cervix halter gown for an after-ceremony dinner. Jessica besides wore her hairsbreadth successful a debased bun, and nixed a benignant that brought backmost a definite memory.
"At first, [my stylist] swept the hairsbreadth backmost but this reminded maine excessively overmuch of my Love Is Blind bridal look," she told Brides, "so I asked for a broadside portion which is overmuch much 'me' and I'm gladsome we went with that. I besides wanted a angiosperm successful my hairsbreadth to adhd that Spanish flair."
The groom wore a tan Italian suit, a achromatic necktie and Ferragamo loafers, Brides reported.
The couple met successful 2020, successful the aboriginal days of the pandemic. "We met for the archetypal clip successful Venice the nighttime earlier L.A. unopen down for COVID," Jessica told Brides. "It was genuinely emotion astatine archetypal sight—funny enough."
Jessica and Ben got engaged successful September 2021. They had initially planned a large wedding, but beingness got successful the way.
"Ultimately, we decided that we needed much clip to propulsion disconnected the monolithic solemnisation that we thought was worthy for our household and friends," Jessica told the magazine. "Considering the timing we are looking for successful presumption of household planning, we came to the decision that we would elope successful 2022 and marque large plans for a solemnisation down the road."
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