Hollywood is full of fake relationships (I WON’T BE NAMING NAMES) and PR stunts, but you know two people who are definitely genuinely in love? That’d be The Bachelorette’s Wells Adams and Modern Family’s Sarah Hyland, who are finally (fiiiiinally) getting married after the pandemic prolonged their engagement.
It took DMs, text messages, voice memos (dayum), calls, and FaceTime calls before Sarah and Wells actually met in person and went on an actual date, and it’s pretty much been nonstop cuteness ever since. As Bachelor Nation prepares for Wells and Sarah’s wedding, let’s take a look back at their infectiously sweet relationship, starting from the very beginning: when Wells was one of 26 contestants vying for JoJo Fletcher’s heart.
July 21, 2012
Bachelor stan Sarah makes it clear that just because she talks about how guys on the show are hot doesn’t mean she’s crushing. (Yeah, that turned out to be a lie!)
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July 27, 2016
Sarah watches Wells on the “Men Tell All” special and tweets about how great he is. Which, by the way, he screenshots and retweets two years later:
August 15, 2017
Sarah and Wells flirt on Twitter while he’s on Bachelor in Paradise. Reading these tweets while knowing what’s coming is better than any romance novel, FACT.
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August 18, 2017
E! News reports that Sarah has broken up with her boyfriend Dominic Sherwood after dating for two years. A source says, “It’s genuinely mutual and amicable, and they truly remain friends.”
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September 2017
Sarah confirmed with Self that she underwent her second kidney transplant (where her younger brother donated his organ, FYI) during this time. And as our May 2020 cover star, she explains that she and Wells had gone on only two dates just before her second major medical procedure. He even flew from Nashville to L.A. on the weekends just to be with her during her recovery KNOWING her family was going to be there too.
Meeting the fam before anything’s official? A lot! But if this ain’t true love???
Late October 2017
Wells and Sarah are clearly hanging out at the same place, at least according to Instagram Stories.
And she even spilled to us that they were already telling each other that they were falling in love and talking about what kind of weddings they wanted. Yeah, I’m wondering how in TF this is real life too.
October 29, 2017
They wear a couples costume for Halloween, which causes the entire internet to spiral with rUmORS and SpeCULatiOn.
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November 5, 2017
Wells and Sarah make it more than clear that they’re officially a couple—or at the very least…making out with each other in dim lighting:
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November 6, 2017
E! News reports that they are dating, with a source musing, “It’s true. They are a couple. She has been spending time with him in Nashville and he is showing her around and doing fun activities with her. Wells is proudly introducing her to all his friends and is really happy that they connected. They are taking it slow but are not seeing other people.”
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November 23, 2017
Things move fast, because Wells and Sarah end up spending Thanksgiving together. But we don’t see pics until a full year later.
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November 24, 2017
Wells puts all other boyfriends/humans to shame by posting the most romantic birthday post that has ever been written.
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Excuse me while I go get mad at my significant other for not writing me this exact post on my b-day.
December 30, 2017
Wells and Sarah spend Christmas together with Wells’s family in Nashville—a pretty big step considering they’d been dating only a few months!
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January 1, 2018
Naturally, they share a New Year’s Eve kiss. As if they’d pass up on posting content that cute on social.
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January 20, 2018
Wells and Sarah hit up their first major event together (Entertainment Weekly’s SAG Awards nominees party) and, naturally, PDA all over the place.
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May 16, 2018
Sarah rivals Wells’s “happy birthday” posting skills with this cuteness. And FYI, the picture was taken shortly after they said “I love you” for the first time:
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August 3, 2018
People reports that Wells has moved into Sarah’s Los Angeles home. EEEEEK, it’s all happening.
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September 16, 2018
Wells and Sarah celebrate the anniversary of their first kiss while I lie in bed celebrating the anniversary of something equally important, like…IDK, the first time I ate pie or something.
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October 15, 2018
Wells and Sarah celebrate their one-year anniversary with more cuteness that legit gives me FOMO even though I’m in a relationship.
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October 29, 2018
Another year, another Halloween costume.
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Taco Bell, get it?
November 24, 2018
Oh, and another year, another insanely cute birthday post from Wells. Damn, he’s good at this.
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December 22, 2018
Wells and Sarah get caught on a kiss cam and handle it in the most Wells and Sarah way possible.
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January 1, 2019
More New Year’s Eve Kiss Kontent!!!
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February 14, 2019
The pair gives us a glimpse at what their Valentine’s Day is like. Answer: predictably adorable.
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February 25, 2019
Sarah and Wells hit up the Vanity Fair Oscars party and take a series of truly incredible red carpet photos.
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May 30, 2019
Wells says his and Sarah’s parents have never met because of their differing politics. “They both fall on opposite sides of the political spectrum and I’m just sure someone’s going to get into a fight about something,” he said. “It will be liberal actors and my dad and my family, who are a bunch of conservatives. My dad’s a doctor; my brother-in-law is from oil money in Texas. It’s going to be so weird.”
July 4, 2019
Patriotism, but make it romantic.
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July 7, 2019
It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for! (If you are still reading this timeline, bless you.) Sarah and Wells get engaged on a beach and it’s freakin’ cute as hell:
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February 14, 2020
Another Valentine’s Day post to make your heart melt:
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July 7, 2020
The couple celebrate one year engaged!
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August 8, 2020
Behold, the day Sarah and Wells were supposed to get married. Till the pandemic changed their plans, sigh.
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October 15, 2020
Three years of dating definitely calls for a cute Insta post, no?
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January 7, 2021
Wells teases that he and Sarah might have a courthouse wedding, explaining that Sarah is immunocompromised due to being a kidney transplant recipient. “We have to be super careful about the pandemic, more so than most people our age. We had to push it the first time around, that was tough. The thought was to push it to this year. If this thing continues and we’re not able to do it, we’ll do a courthouse,” he said. “I’m really pushing for Vegas—powder blue suits, Elvis officiant.”
February 14, 2021
Just some fake wedding pics to hold everyone over till the real thing, you’re welcome!
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October 15, 2021
Another year, another sweet dating anniversary!
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November 21, 2021
No words, just this.
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January 1, 2022
Sarah and Wells reveal this is officially THE year they’re getting married.
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February 14, 2022
Some predictably adorable V-Day posts coming up:
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June 2, 2022
Wells is asked about his wedding plans and says, “Hopefully this year, but Covid has postponed that a couple times. So, fingers crossed it’s this year. We’ve been full force into planning for three years, so everything’s done. We just need to actually have it.”
June 15, 2022
Sarah has her bridal shower at long last!
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July 16, 2022
And then her bach party! After which Sarah tells E! News that the “wildest thing that happened was that we were dancing on tables singing musical theater. I did the entire Chicago soundtrack by myself. Is that sad or is that everything? I think it’s everything.”
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Which means, yep…their wedding is literally right around the corner.
That’s it for now, but don’t worry, we’ll be updating this timeline with new super-sweet details as they emerge.
August 20, 2022
It’s official! Wells and Sarah are married. A source confirms to E! News that they tied the knot on August 20 during an outdoor ceremony at Sunstone Winery. Gorge pic incoming:
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September 13, 2022
In an interview with Us Weekly to promote his pizza-making reality competition show (because, sure) Best in Dough, Wells revealed that he fully cried when he watched Sarah walk down the aisle on their big day (per her request/quasi-demand).
“Sarah said before the wedding, ‘If you don’t cry when you see me for the first time walking down the aisle, I’m gonna be really upset,'” he explained. “And I was like, ‘That’s a lot of pressure. I’m not an actor.’ Luckily enough, I was crying like a baby when she turned the corner with her dad and then I was hugging her dad and I was crying with him, then reading the vows, I was crying and you know what … she didn’t really cry at all. And I was like, ‘What the heck what’s going on!'”
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