Bachelor Alum Lesley Murphy Marries Alex Kavanagh in Maui

Lesley Murphy is married!

The Bachelor alum and journey blogger, 35, and her fiancé Alex Kavanagh tied the knot on Oct. 14 on the Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua.

“We actually are so dedicated to at least one one other, the place we already really feel married, says Murphy. “However to have our day, and to lastly be capable of name one another husband and spouse is simply so particular.”

The couple — whose 20-month-old daughter Nora served as their flower woman — got engaged in Feb. 2020 after a 12 months of relationship.

For his or her ceremony, the bride wore a Monique Lhuillier robe as she and Kavanagh, 35, exchanged conventional vows in entrance of 71 friends simply steps from the seashore.

“I’ve all the time wished to get married outdoors,” says Murphy. “I really like mom nature and to be surrounded by the palm timber and the ocean is simply so lovely.”

Murphy provides that the marriage décor was all impressed by Hawaii’s pure magnificence. “I really like colour and there are such a lot of lovely pops of it right here. I definitely did not need an all-white marriage ceremony or muted colours.”

Following the ceremony, the friends — which have been a mixture of household and pals from the U.S. and Australia, the place Kavanagh is initially from — moved right into a cocktail hour that includes an open bar and handed hors d’oeuvres.

Visitors then loved a seated dinner of slow-braised beef quick rib — “which was wonderful,” says Murphy — plus macadamia nut mahi mahi and a vegetarian possibility. “You may’t beat the meals,” the bride says.

The newlyweds selected “You Are the Greatest Factor” by Ray LaMontagne for his or her first dance earlier than slicing right into a Grand Marnier cake topped with contemporary strawberries.

The occasion continued late into the evening when friends headed inside to a ballroom the place they danced and dined on hen biscuits and cookie cake from the late-night meals menu.

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Murphy provides that some of the particular components of their day was merely being round these they love.

“The moments the place your finest family and friends are collectively in a single place are so few and much between,” she says. “Particularly since we span two totally different continents. Which will by no means occur once more. It is simply wonderful.”