‘Bachelor in Paradise’ stars Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt.
Bachelor in Paradise’sJoe AmabileandSerena Pittsaid “I do” at City Hall last yearand celebrated with friends and familyover Labor Day weekendthis summer.
But because they’d technically already tied the knot, the reality stars didn’t feel the need to follow standard wedding traditions, including spending the night apart before their Charleston, South Carolina nuptials.
“Joe and I did spend the night together,” Pitt, 25, said on Wednesday’sBachelor Happy Hourpodcast episode. “I know there’s like the tradition of sleeping in separate rooms on your wedding night but one: we’re already married.”
Amabile, 37, added, “We broke that tradition a year ago!”
Serena Pitt and Joe Amabile at their Sept. 2 wedding ceremony in Charleston, South Carolina.Olivia Leigh Photographie
Olivia Leigh Photographie
Pitt shared that she and Amabile went their separate ways around 7:30 or 8:00 a.m. the next morning and then didn’t see each other again until the first look. Amabile called the first look “the most nervous I was” on his wedding day.
“It was such a build-up,” Amabile explained. “And I know the first look is just you and I, but it was such a build-up to that. And then I was like, it was getting hot — I was in my head. I’m like, I don’t want my shirt to get wrinkled. And yeah, I just … I was like, I know it’s going to be the first time I’m going to see you in your wedding dress and it’s going to be intimate and kind of emotional so I was like, I was nervous for that.”
Pitt agreed that the first look presented a “more nerve-wracking” experience for Amabile “because you don’t know what you’re going to see when you turn around.”
“When I turned around, I was so thrown off because I was expecting you to be walking towards me,” Pitt said to Amabile. “And you were just standing right there.”
Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt at their Sept. 2 wedding reception in Charleston, South Carolina.Olivia Leigh Photographie
“I thought it was just going to have a little more like texture to it, like a little more design or something,” he told Pitt. “So when I saw how simple it was, I was like, oh that’s really elegant.”
When it came to exchanging their vows, Amabile confessed he “wanted to cut” off Pitt because “I wanted to go first.”
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Pitt said she wanted to go first, too, but when she did, she skipped over part of what she’d prepared. “I was like, I need to get these vows done first because I’m so nervous,” she said. “I was literally so nervous, guys, that I accidentally started my vows on page 2. And I only read page 2 on.”
Serena Pitt and Joe Amabile at their Sept. 2 in Charleston, South Carolina.Olivia Leigh Photographie
“We had the hardest time — just to be clear — picking our first dance song,” Pitt said. “We went back and forth for months. We finally settled on this one. We were looking at each other like, what a crazy sign! This has to be a good sign that the song is playing.”
But Amabile didn’t agree.
Ultimately, Amabile said, “I’m happy we switched.”
“Joe booked our entire honeymoon, down to the dinner reservations!” Pitt told PEOPLE. “It’s going to be unbelievably romantic. And the perfect fit for us as major pasta lovers.”
source: people.com
