Former ‘Bachelorette’ Hannah Brown Says Planning the Wedding Isn’t As Important As Actually Preparing For a Marriage

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By Chrissy Stockton

Updated 4 minutes ago, September 3, 2026

Hannah Brown told StyleCaster that wedding planning wasn’t her favorite season of life, and that what she was proud of was something else. “Instead of just planning a wedding, we’re preparing for a marriage,” she said. “You’re committing to growing with a person and taking the hard days with the good days.”

Hannah Brown waves to onlookers outside the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ studios in Los Angeles on July 30, 2019. Photo by RB/Bauer-Griffin / GC Images via Getty Images.

On July 26, she married Adam Woolard at Domaine du Mont Leuze on the French Riviera in front of 101 guests. Their pastor flew in from Nashville to officiate. Faith, Brown told People, “has just continued to be the center pillar for our relationship.”

She walked down the aisle to a string quartet playing The Beatles’ “Here Comes the Sun” in a made-to-measure Mira Zwillinger corseted ball gown, changed into a Mark Ingram slip dress for the reception, and left in a Zimmermann dress and a 1984 Mercedes-Benz Gazelle cabriolet.

At a Nashville private residence on May 18, 2026, Hannah Brown, Jessie James Decker, Shawn Johnson, Jana Kramer and others marked the launch of Decker’s Just Feed Me Cookware Collection at the Italian Summer Soiree. Photo by Jason Kempin / Getty Images.

“I always knew I wanted to take up space on my wedding day because there’s so many times in life, especially as women, that we feel like we need to be smaller,” Brown told People. “I feel like a princess, and I feel like that’s exactly how you should feel on your wedding day.”

At The Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Nashville, Hannah Brown appeared at the Feb. 12, 2026 premiere of ‘I Can Only Imagine 2’ wearing a deep red floral halter gown. Photo by Jason Kempin / Getty Images.

Brown and Woolard met on a dating app shortly after her 2019 Bachelorette season, went public on Valentine’s Day 2021, and got engaged in August 2023 at a Tennessee treehouse resort. They’re honeymooning in Croatia and moving in together in Nashville after living apart through the engagement.

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