The Bachelorette alum Jason Tartick has shared a wedding-planning update with Kaitlyn Bristowe.
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Kaitlyn, who starred on The Bachelorette's eleventh season, and Jason, who competed on The Bachelorette's fourteenth edition, got engaged in May 2021 after two years of dating, and now their wedding isn't far away.
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Kaitlyn told Entertainment Tonight in January that her wedding will take place in Nashville, TN, in October 2022, however, according to Jason, that's most likely not going to happen.
"The funny story behind that is I got a link sent to me by my brother, and that link said, 'Jason and Kaitlyn getting married October 2022.' And he said, 'Thanks for the invite,'" Jason told BachelorNation.com with a laugh.
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"And so I had no idea [Kaitlyn] even said that in an interview! I don't know where her timeline was, but the reality of the situation is Kaitlyn gets back from [her Dancing with the Stars] tour in mid-March."
"We now have our wedding planner locked in and loaded, and our wedding planner -- I don't think I've talked about this anywhere -- is the same wedding planner [Ashley Iaconetti] and [Jared Haibon] used, and they introduced to him."
Jason said he and Kaitlyn attended Ashley and Jared's wedding and were "so impressed" by the wedding.
"And so the next step is venue shopping. Kaitlyn is going to get back here and we're going to start looking at venues, and then I think we'll pick a date," Jason shared.
"I think the only issue with Fall 2022 is that so many COVID weddings got pushed back, I have a feeling the venues we have our eye on aren't going to be available. Now if they are available, I'd be down for it! I just don't see it happening."
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Jason therefore concluded, "Early 2023 is my prediction, but we'll see once we go venue seeking."
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When Kaitlyn revealed her initial October 2022 wedding plans, she said she and Jason had decided on the guest count being "300 or less."
As for The Bachelor or The Bachelorette alums who may be invited to his wedding, Jason noted, "There will be a lot of Bachelor Nation at the wedding, is my guess! I'm sure everything from production to our friends who are near and dear to our story will be there."
Jason added, "They've been a big part of our journey. Without the whole Bachelor franchise and Bachelor Nation, both on Kaitlyn's end and my end, there's no way that the pieces fall into place and that we meet one another -- so it's all because of that."
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But Jason is "undecided" as to whether any of his male friends from Bachelor Nation will be in his wedding party as groomsmen.
"I think Kaitlyn is pretty decided about a few that will be in her wedding party," Jason teased, "but I'll let her tell that."
"I have a feeling there will be a ton of Bachelor Nation [coming]," Jason concluded.
Kaitlyn got the ball rolling on her wedding plans before leaving for the Dancing with the Stars 2022 winter tour in mid-January.
"I was like, 'Jason, we got to lock down a wedding planner because once I'm gone, I'm not gonna be able to do much and I'm not too picky about things,'" Kaitlyn told ET of the planning process earlier this year.
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"I'll let the wedding planner, as long as I trust them, do their thing, so hopefully that will make it easier."
Kaitlyn announced in Fall 2021 she'd be joining the Dancing with the Stars tour after winning the mirrorball trophy with her pro partner Artem Chigvintsev on Season 29 in November 2020.
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Jason told Us Weekly in August 2021 that the couple's wedding plans were progressing nicely.
"We have created a guest list. We have created a website. We have a date set. So, we're [doing] all the right things," Jason shared.
At the time, however, Kaitlyn and Jason -- who currently live in Nashville together -- hadn't decided on where to wed considering Jason's family lives in Buffalo, NY, and Kaitlyn's relatives are in Canada.
"So, we were thinking Nashville is probably a fun area to go," Kaitlyn said last year.
Once the pair tie the knot, Kaitlyn and Jason anticipate wasting no time in starting a family.
"I've had baby fever for, like, 10 years," Kaitlyn admitted last year. "Jason and I already [said], like, 'We're making one as soon as we get married.'"
Kaitlyn would apparently like a big family, but she said she has realistic expectations going forward.
"I have so many girlfriends who have struggled with getting pregnant that I'm truly just happy to even have one," Kaitlyn previously told Us.
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"If that's in the cards for me, what would I ideally love? Probably three but [I'm] not getting any younger. So, I don't know if that's going to happen."
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Kaitlyn, who co-hosted The Bachelorette's seventeenth and eighteenth seasons with Tayshia Adams, had originally planned on a Summer 2022 wedding.
"I just know that basically as soon as we can get the ball rolling, I want it to be a Great Gatsby-like, black-tie event -- very glam, which is so opposite of what I thought I would want," Kaitlyn revealed in June 2021.
"Because four years ago, I would have been like, 'I want bohemian. I want it farm-style.' I just keep changing my mind."
Kaitlyn had previously been engaged to her The Bachelorette 11 winner Shawn Booth, but the pair never seemed to get deep into wedding planning and announced their split in November 2018 after three years of dating.
Kaitlyn added how she and Jason envisioned their nuptials being "super-chic" with a reception that includes "a band, a deejay and a piano man," who will conduct a sing-a-long during the evening.
Kaitlyn also previously revealed she'd like Artem to choreograph "a nice romantic waltz" for her first dance with Jason as man and wife.
Kaitlyn first met Jason while taping an episode of her "Off the Vine" podcast in October 2018, and he took her out on their first date in January 2019.
Jason -- who finished Becca Kufrin's The Bachelorette season in third place in 2018 -- moved from his place in Seattle, WA, to live with Kaitlyn in Nashville in June 2019. The couple has since adopted two dogs together.
Prior to starring on The Bachelorette, Kaitlyn failed to win Chris Soules' heart on The Bachelor's nineteenth season.
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