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It’s a Bachelor Nation love story − well, kind of.
Gabby Windey, a one-time lead of the reality dating show, tied the knot with partner Robby Hoffman earlier this year. Windey announced the Jan. 11 wedding, which she and Hoffman had kept under wraps, in an Instagram post Wednesday.
“Husband and wife!!” she captioned a shot of her and Hoffman sharing a kiss in front of a white rose-adorned altar.
Windey, 34, co-starred alongside Rachel Recchia on Season 19 of “The Bachelorette,” ultimately picking contestant Erich Schwer and sharing a brief engagement.
The two split in December 2022, just two months after the show’s finale, but Windey’s star has only continued to rise. Beloved to fans for her comedic timing, she took her signature humor from “Dancing With the Stars,” to the podcast circuit and now to “The Traitors” − an entirely different type of reality competition show.
Windey began dating Hoffman, 35, a successful standup comedian, in 2023 and the two have been inseparable ever since.
Then, when the pair evacuated their Los Angeles home amid raging wildfires at the start of the year, and wound up in Vegas − marriage seemed like the natural next step.
Windey was the first to broach the idea, the ex-“Bachelorette,” told Cosmopolitan in an interview published Wednesday.
“It was nice, it being my idea,” she told the outlet. “Robby was literally ready to propose three weeks in and I’m always the one pumping the brakes, but when something feels right, it just feels right. I think it was better for the both of us that it was my idea.”
The couple was cautious not to make light of tragedy, but with the fires threatening their home, tying the knot felt like a way to stay together even if the world was ending.
“It’s giving Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey when they divorced and came back together after 9/11,” Windey joked. The two were engaged for a day, they tell the outlet, with Hoffman proposing over a custom-made crossword puzzle and the soon-to-be newlyweds sharing a meal at an all-you-can-eat crab buffet.
Windey walked down the aisle in a dress she bought that day to Chappell Roan’s “Hot to Go.”
“It was the best,” Windey told Cosmo. “In a weird way, it was giving ‘Bachelor’ because there were roses everywhere. I never envisioned my wedding as a kid or anything, but that’s part of what made this feel so right. Actually being there and feeling it, it was so us.”
“We had no expectations. We just had love and openness,” Hoffman said.
Recchia, who also ultimately ditched her “final rose” recipient Tino Franco, sent love Windey’s way, commenting on the post: “Congratulations to you both I’m in tears.”
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