Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici finally said "I do" Sunday night during a two-hour ABC special, which drew a crowd of more than 6 million despite competition from the 2014 Grammy Awards ceremony.
The couple, who met on The Bachelor, exchanged vows as Lowe's father officiated.
"I promise to love you until after my heart bursts," Giudici told her groom. "I promise to love you after our children are old and gray. I promise to love you even after we can't remember our own names. I will still know how fully I have loved you."
Lowe responded in kind:
"From the moment I met you I wanted more. You had me hooked from the beginning and I didn't want to let you go." The reality TV star then paid tribute to the unique settings in which the duo met saying, "We met in the strangest way possible ... I know that we met on The Bachelor so that I could fall in love with my best friend."
The couple that publically announced they were saving themselves until they were married picked "grown sexy" as the theme, which celebrity wedding planner Mindy Weiss carried out by "bringing the living room outside," including furniture and chandeliers, Weiss told Extra.
Giudici's 3.15-carat ring was designed by Neil Lane, as were the couple's wedding bands.
For avid Bachelor and Bachelorette fans, the event's guest list included a number of familiar faces, including Trista and Ryan Sutter, Bachelorette veterans who just celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary in December. Ashley Hebert and JP Rosenbaum, Jason and Molly Mesnick, and Desiree Hartsock and Chris Siegfried were among those couples present who met on the show.
Also in the audience was bachelor Juan Pablo Galavis, the Venezuelan heartthrob whose season is currently underway.
The guests looked on as, at precisely 9:49 p.m., the two were wed, leaving Lowe in tears.
"My beautiful wife," Lowe said, and kissed his new bride.
