Which ‘Bachelor’ and ‘Bachelorette’ Couples Are Still Together?
Allison Takeda
Allison Takeda
The Bachelor franchise isn’t exactly known for creating lasting relationships, with 21 seasons of The Bachelor and 13 seasons of The Bachelorette producing just eight couples (so far) who have stood the test of time (not counting former contestants who met and fell in love outside of the show). Still, we continue to devote our Monday nights to reality TV romance and rose ceremonies, because those couples that do make it work totally reaffirm our belief in love. Click through to see what happened to every Bachelor and Bachelorette couple in the franchise. (Photos via Craig Sjodin/ABC via Getty Images + Todd Wawrychuk/ABC via Getty Images + Rick Rowell/ABC via Getty Images + ABC/ Heidi Gutman)
The Bachelor, Season 1: Alex Michel and Amanda Marsh
Status: Split. Although there was no proposal, Michel chose Marsh over Trista Sutter (née Rehn) in the April 2002 season 1 finale. They confirmed their breakup in early 2003. (Photo via Craig Sjodin/ABC via Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 2: Aaron Buerge and Helene Eksterowicz
Status: Split. Buerge proposed to Eksterowicz in the November 2002 finale, but the couple went their separate ways not long after. (Photo via Scott Gries/ImageDirect)
The Bachelorette, Season 1: Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter
Status: Still together! Trista and Ryan Sutter are the franchise's first success story. After getting engaged on the February 2003 finale, they married on national TV in December of that year and now have two kids, Max and Blakesley. (Photo via Paul Morigi/Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 3: Andrew Firestone and Jen Schefft
Status: Split. Firestone and Schefft announced their breakup in December 2003, seven months after getting engaged on the May 2003 season three finale. (Photo via Frank Micelotta/Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 4: Bob Guiney and Estella Gardinier
Status: Split. Although Guiney, who first competed on season one of The Bachelorette, didn't propose to Gardinier on the November 2003 finale, he did offer her a promise ring. Alas, they parted ways just weeks after the show aired. (Photo via L. Busacca/WireImage)
The Bachelorette, Season 2: Meredith Phillips and Ian McKee
Status: Split. Phillips and McKee announced their breakup in February 2005, a year after their engagement aired on the February 2004 season two finale. (Photo via Lawrence Lucier/FilmMagic)
The Bachelor, Season 5: Jesse Palmer and Jessica Bowlin
Status: Split. Palmer chose Bowlin over Tara Huckeby on the May 2004 finale, but their relationship (which did not include a proposal) was short-lived. (Photo via Craig Sjodin/ABC via Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 6: Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado
Status: Split. After getting engaged on the November 2004 finale, Velvick and Delgado were together for five tumultuous years before breaking up in December 2009. (Photo via Craig Sjodin/ABC via Getty)
The Bachelorette, Season 3: Jen Schefft and Jerry Ferris
Status: Split. Although Schefft chose Ferris over runner-up John Paul Merritt, she declined Ferris' proposal, telling him to keep the ring to give to her later if they still felt the same way about each other down the road. She officially broke things off during the live finale event in March 2005. (Photo via Donna Svennevik/ABC via Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 7: Charlie O'Connell and Sarah Brice
Status: Split. O'Connell didn't propose to Brice on the May 2005 finale, but they continued to date on and off for several years before splitting for good in 2010. (Photo via Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
The Bachelor, Season 8: Travis Stork and Sarah Stone
Status: Split. Stork and Stone confirmed their breakup just a week after the February 2006 season eight finale aired on TV. (Photo via Craig Sjodin/ABC via Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 9: Lorenzo Borghese and Jennifer Wilson
Status: Split. Borghese chose Wilson over Sadie Murray on the November 2006 finale, but they went their separate ways in January 2007. (Photo via Craig Sjodin/ABC via Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 10: Andrew Baldwin and Tessa Horst
Status: Split. Baldwin and Horst called off their engagement a month after the May 2007 finale aired, but they continued to date until September of that year. (Photo via Steve Jennings/WireImage)
The Bachelor, Season 12: Matt Grant and Shayne Lamas
Status: Split. After a season in which Brad Womack rejected both of his two finalists, viewers were happy to see Grant propose to Lamas on the May 2008 finale. Alas, they broke up a few months later, in July. (Photo via Gregg DeGuire/WireImage)
The Bachelorette, Season 4: DeAnna Pappas and Jesse Csincsak
Status: Split. After getting engaged on the July 2008 finale, Pappas and Csincsak planned their wedding for May 2009, only to split in November 2008. (Photo via Craig Sjodin/ABC via Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 13: Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney
Status: Still together! Mesnick actually proposed to Melissa Rycroft on the March 2009 finale, but he realized not long after that he was still in love with runner-up Malaney. On the After the Final Rose special immediately after the finale aired, he broke things off with Rycroft and asked Malaney for another chance. They married in February 2010 and welcomed their first child, Riley, in 2013. Mesnick also has a son, Ty, from a previous marriage. (Photo via Tiffany Rose/WireImage)
The Bachelorette, Season 5: Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski
Status: Split. Harris and Swiderski announced the end of their engagement in July 2010, a year after the finale aired on TV. (Photo via Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for IMG)
The Bachelor, Season 14: Jake Pavelka and Vienna Girardi
Status: Split. Pavelka and Girardi had an ugly, very public breakup a few months after they got engaged on the March 2010 finale. They dissected the split in an interview with Chris Harrison, during which Pavelka said he was "disgusted" with his ex, and Girardi called him both a "liar" and a "fame whore." (Photo via Frazer Harrison/Getty)
The Bachelorette, Season 6: Ali Fedotowsky and Roberto Martinez
Status: Split. Fedotowsky and Martinez went their separate ways in November 2011, a little more than a year after viewers watched them get engaged on the August 2010 finale. (Photo via Tiffany Rose/WireImage)
The Bachelor, Season 15: Brad Womack and Emily Maynard
Status: Split. Womack, whose first stint on the show ended with him rejecting both DeAnna Pappas and Jenni Croft, proposed to Maynard at the end of his second go-round. Though they broke up while the show was airing, they got back together before the March 2011 finale — only to split for good in June of that year. (Photo via Mark Wessels/ABC via Getty)
The Bachelorette, Season 7: Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum
Status: Still together! Hebert and Rosenbaum said "I do" in December 2012, 16 months to the day after their engagement aired on TV. They have two kids, Fordham (born in 2014) and Essex (born in 2016). (Photo via Rodrigo Varela/Getty Images for WE tv)
The Bachelor, Season 16: Ben Flajnik and Courtney Robertson
Status: Split. Flajnik and Robertson broke up and got back together before the season 16 finale aired in March 2012, ultimately ending their engagement for good in October of that year. (Photo via Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)
The Bachelorette, Season 8: Emily Maynard and Jef Holm
Status: Split. Maynard chose Holm over runner-up (and season 22 Bachelor star) Arie Luyendyk Jr., but the couple called off their engagement in October 2012, three months after the finale aired on TV. (Photo via Mike Lawrie/Getty Images for Benefit Cosmetics)
The Bachelor, Season 17: Sean Lowe and Catherine GIudici
Status: Still together! After getting engaged on the March 2013 finale, Lowe and Giudici married on live TV in January 2014. They welcomed son Samuel two years later, in July 2016, and their second child in 2018. (Photo via Todd Wawrychuk/ABC via Getty)
The Bachelorette, Season 9: Desiree Hartsock and Chris Siegfried
Status: Still together! Hartsock and Siegfried, who got engaged on the August 2013 finale, made things official in January 2015 and welcomed son Asher in October 2016. (Photo via Francisco Roman/ABC Via Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 19: Chris Soules and Whitney Bischoff
Status: Split. Soules, one of the final three suitors on Andi Dorfman's season of The Bachelorette, proposed to Bischoff on the season 19 finale, which aired in March 2015. They called off the engagement in May. (Photo via Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 18: Juan Pablo Galavis and Nikki Ferrell
Status: Split. Although Galavis chose Ferrell over runner-up Clare Crawley on the March 2014 finale, he could never tell her he loved her. They appeared on Couples Therapy together after the show, but split in October 2014. (Photo via Rick Rowell/ABC via Getty)
The Bachelorette, Season 10: Andi Dorfman and Josh Murray
Status: Split. After sending runner-up Nick Viall home with a broken heart, Dorfman accepted a proposal from Murray on the July 2014 finale. They announced their split in January 2015, less than six months after the episode aired. (Photo via Rick Diamond/Getty Images for Cirque du Soleil)
The Bachelorette, Season 11: Kaitlyn Bristowe and Shawn Booth
Status: Split. Bristowe and Booth announced the end of their engagement on November 2, 2018, saying in a statement that they are "very much committed to remaining friends." (Photo via Michael Loccisano/Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 20: Ben Higgins and Lauren Bushnell
Status: Split. Higgins, who famously told both Bushnell and runner-up JoJo Fletcher that he loved them, proposed to Bushnell on the March 2016 finale. They later starred on their own reality show, Freeform's Ben and Lauren: Happily Ever After?, but announced the end of their engagement in May 2017. (Photo via Mike Pont/WireImage)
The Bachelorette, Season 12: JoJo Fletcher and Jordan Rodgers
Status: Still together! Rodgers proposed to Fletcher — the runner-up on Ben Higgins' season of The Bachelor — on the August 2016 season 12 finale. They're still engaged, although both have said they're in no rush to walk down the aisle. (Photo via David Livingston/Getty)
The Bachelor, Season 21: Nick Viall and Vanessa Grimaldi
Status: Split. Viall, a two-time Bachelorette runner-up, seemed like he was finally headed for happily-ever-after when he proposed to Grimaldi on the March 2017 finale. Alas, they announced their breakup just a few months later, in August 2017. (Photo via Terhi Tuovinen/ABC via Getty)
The Bachelorette, Season 13: Rachel Lindsay and Bryan Abasolo
Status: Still together! After a heartbreaking goodbye with runner-up Peter Kraus, Lindsay (who became a fan favorite on Nick Viall's season of The Bachelor) accepted a proposal from Abasolo on the August 2017 finale. They're planning a wedding for 2018. (Photo via ABC/ Heidi Gutman)
The Bachelorette, Season 14: Becca Kufrin and Garrett Yrigoyen
Status: Still together! Kufrin chose Yrigoyen over runner-up Blake Horstmann on the August 2018 season 14 finale, accepting his proposal on a beach on the Maldives. Not long after they filmed the engagement, they weathered a controversy over his Instagram activity. But both say they're stronger because of it. (Photo via Gotham/GC Images)
The Bachelor, Season 23: Colton Underwood and Cassie Randolph
Status: Still together! Randolph actually dumped Underwood and tried to leave the show — hence his now-famous fence jump — but he decided to fight for her anyway. After breaking up with the remaining two contestants, Tayshia Adams and Hannah Godwin, he chased down Randolph and convinced her to give their relationship a shot. As of the finale on March 12, they were "super in love" and talking about an engagement. (Photo via ABC/John Fleenor)
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