The Bachelorette alum Andi Dorfman and husband Blaine Hart have celebrated their marriage with a "special" second wedding day in a place that's close to Andi's heart.
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And earlier this week, the spouses celebrated their union by putting together a giant celebration in Andi's hometown of Atlanta, GA.
Andi and Blaine partied with friends and family, and she documented the big event on Instagram.
"Had the best time celebrating our wedding in Atlanta!" Andi captioned a slideshow of photos, which included pictures of the couple cutting a big cake, making speeches, and posing with nieces and nephews.
And a drone captured one image of three long tables of people set up on a lawn, each of which sat at least 16 people for a family-style meal.
"So many people asked us how we managed a small guest list for our wedding in Italy and Blaine and I both come from huge families and just couldn't see that working for a small destination wedding," the former The Bachelorette star continued in her caption.
"So we decided to do a huge celebration in my hometown! And it was perfect! Casual but still intimate and our families got to celebrate us as well and invite anyone and everyone they wanted to!"
Andi added, "The kids loved it, the parents loved it and we loved it! Such a special (second) wedding day."
Fellow The Bachelor alum Kelly Travis apparently attended the celebration.
During Andi and Blaine's Italian wedding, they exchanged personal vows in front of 75 wedding guests -- including former The Bachelorette star Tayshia Adams and The Bachelor alums Hannah Ann Sluss and Amanda Stanton -- at the waterfront Conca del Sogno Beach Club.
Following the ceremony, which was adorned with white flowers and greenery, guests were whisked away on a sunset cruise down the Amalfi Coast to the Excelsior Vittoria hotel for cocktails and the dinner reception.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOWAndi and Blaine met more than a decade ago, but their relationship didn't take off until Summer 2021.
"It's kind of a crazy story. We actually met at a party when we were both in college," Andi told People last month.
"Blaine was playing baseball at Furman University and one of my friends was his teammate. We met and then I never heard from him again until 15 years later in Italy."
Blaine apparently started DMing Andi and asked her if she wanted to go for drinks.
"I told him, 'I'm in Italy, so no.' And he was like, 'Well obviously. I saw your Instagram story, I'm here too and I want to take you out for drinks,'" Andi recalled, adding how their chance encounter would be her last first date.
"That was it," she gushed. "[Italy] is a very special place for us."
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Andi said her favorite part of the wedding was "seeing Blaine at the end of the aisle," and she called her new husband her "person."
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Andi, who starred on The Bachelorette in 2014 after a dramatic breakup with Juan Pablo Galavis on The Bachelor, accepted a marriage proposal from Blaine in March 2022.
Andi wrote on Instagram at the time that the engagement was well "worth the wait."
Blaine popped the question on a beach in Los Angeles, CA, which just so happens to be the pair's special "spot" where they often enjoy sunset cocktails.
Blaine proposed with a ring designed by the same jeweler who had created Andi's mother's engagement ring nearly 40 years ago. Andi told People last year that her ring "symbolizes so much love and happiness."
After Andi and Blaine got engaged, they bought and moved into a house together in Greenville, SC. Andi had been hoping Blaine would move to Los Angeles, but he apparently won that debate.
Andi and Blaine chose to exchange vows in the same location where they reconnected in Summer 2021 after her time on The Bachelor franchise.
"You know, the wedding that I want at 36 now is so much different than the wedding I would've wanted in my 20s, and I definitely want it to be smaller, more intimate. And we also want to share our love of travel," Andi shared with E! News in late March.
"Some of our friends have never been to Italy," she added. "They're so excited. We love hearing about where they're going to be before and after. It's really a chance for us to push our friends to enjoy travel like we do."
Andi pointed out how marrying abroad actually made the wedding plans a little simpler, and it helped that the pair had hired an experienced wedding planner to assist them.
Before saying, "I do," Andi celebrated her "La Dolce Vita" bridal shower with family and friends in Atlanta.
Andi admitted to the world she was in love in February 2022.
Andi initially revealed on Instagram in November 2021 that she was dating someone special, but she didn't disclose his identity at the time. She even posted photos on Instagram without showing his face.
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And then on New Year's Day, Andi uploaded a photo of the pair posing side by side in formal attire outside of the swanky hotel.
"Cheers to a year filled with love and sparkles. 2022... I have a feeling you might very well be the best one yet! Happy New Year," Andi wrote alongside her post.
Andi told People that she wanted to "protect" Blaine from the public eye for as long as she could.
"But it's fun for me to share it now, and it makes me feel good to see that people are truly happy that I finally found love," she said at the time.
Andi insisted her love for Blaine is different from what she had felt in past relationships.
"Not only do we love each other tremendously, but we like being with each other. We both just want to make the other happy and in turn our relationship is a lot of fun. That's the word I'd use to describe our relationship: fun," Andi boasted.
"It's not about it being easy or hard; that's not our barometer. I knew Blaine was different and I remember just hoping that the shoe wouldn't drop and this was the real deal and it turned out it was!"
Blaine told Us last year that timing was "everything" when it came to how his romance with Andi got started.
Andi, a former assistant district attorney from Atlanta, found fame when she appeared on The Bachelor's 18th season.
Andi proceeded to star on The Bachelorette's tenth season, when she rejected runner-up Nick Viall and got engaged to winner Josh Murray. The finale aired in July 2014.
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Andi has written two tell-all memoirs, It's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After as well as Single State of Mind, the first of which bashes Josh and how he had treated her during their short-lived relationship.
Andi had accused Josh of being verbally abusive, temperamental and controlling in her book -- which Josh in turn called "fiction."
"I was disgusted with myself for what I put up with. I was a strong, independent woman and I allowed [Josh] to be [emotionally abusive]. Now, I know I don't want someone jealous or controlling. I know what won't make me happy in [the future]," Andi told People in 2016.
"We all have red flags in our relationships that we don't see. Looking back and seeing those red flags was very cathartic for me. I realized our relationship wasn't the highlight of my life like I thought it was. So I took it off the pedestal and realized all was not lost."
Andi admitted in January 2021 that she would have made very different choices on The Bachelorette if she could go back and do it all over again.
"Honestly, if I had to pick a different person from my season it would not have been Nick, who was second. It would have been Chris Soules, who was third," Andi said on the Dax Holt and Adam Glyn's "Hollywood Raw" podcast.
"He was my buddy, my friend. I really liked Nick and Josh... Chris was like my safety blanket. He was the guy I could go on a date with and I knew that we would have a good time. There wasn't a ton of pressure."
Andi, who was single at the time, said she wouldn't want to do the show again, even though she really enjoyed starring on The Bachelorette.
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