Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Luyendyk (née Burnham) are some of the rare Bachelor couples still going strong, recently renewing their vows to turn out it.
“We were not planning to renew our vows so early, but we heard concerning the Aruba I Do tournament, and we thought it was in reality cool and a amusing alternative for us to deliver our kids with us and just have a laugh on the seashore, celebrating love. So that’s what we did,” Lauren instructed Us Weekly throughout a joint interview with Arie. “It used to be this type of just right time. We got to see couples that were married for, like, 60 years to those that had simply gotten married previous that year or this yr.”
Lauren famous that the duo, who met on season 22 of The Bachelor, want to have another marriage ceremony for their 10-year anniversary after exchanging vows with “hundreds of other couples” at the same time on the Aruba match.
“It took the power off people,” Arie defined of the crowd vow renewal. “I in truth wrote vows and so did Lauren, but it was orchestrated on the identical time.”
The couple took 4-year-old daughter Alessi and 2-year-old twins Senna and Lux to Aruba’s Eagle Beach for the “epic” rite, which Arie described as a “fun match to rejoice love.”
“I beloved that our kids were there too. They had the best time. There were dancers from the island there and they had these loopy costumes and Lux was once just, like, enamored with those dancers,” Lauren informed Us. “[Lux] just, like, may now not get over it. It used to be so a laugh.”
Arie and Lauren originally wed in January 2019. When knowledgeable about the “reality TV curse” — a.okay.a. the concept that Real Housewives or different reality stars find themselves getting divorced after vow renewals — they laughed.
“I started listening to that after we mentioned that we did our vow renewal. Someone was like, ‘Ashley and J.P. did a vow renewal … oh no, now you guys are doomed,’” Lauren said of Bachelorette season 7 stars Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum, who renewed their vows in August 2018, two years ahead of they announced their split. “I’m like, ‘I don’t suppose it works that approach.’”
Arie agreed. “Maybe some couples do [a renewal] as, like, a last-ditch effort to fix the connection, nevertheless it’s now not like that for us,” he stated. “I think we simply love love. I mean, we’ve been married [to each other] twice now. We’ve achieved two [proposals].”
Lauren is assured that the twosome have handiest grown as a unit.
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“My mentality, at least going into the vow renewal, was, ‘We got married and it used to be essentially the most magical day of our lives. We had most of these ideas of what our future used to be gonna be.’ And then after we had our kids, like, things get more difficult, we go through other trials in combination,” she stated. “Our dating’s not always very best. So it’s a laugh to more or less come again together and be like, ‘Hey, we nonetheless love every other and we were given via these kind of things together and we’re still robust and we now have like a fantastic long term ahead of us.’ And that was once that’s what that was for us.”
Arie concluded, “The vows that you write every different whilst you first get married are so other. Your lifestyles is so different after having kids. So I think the vows change too. And I believe it is just a pleasant method to celebrate your love and additionally roughly reset your expectations for one some other.”
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