Bachelor in Paradise couple Raven Gates and Adam Gottschalk have finally tied the knot after four years of dating and three postponed weddings due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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"We've been waiting for this day for a long time!" Raven, who wore a beautiful lace trumpet gown with her hair down and a veil, told People.
"I'm so happy to get married to someone I love so much."
Adam added, "We're just so excited that it's finally happening. And we're going to have a wonderful future together."
In order to take proper precaution amid the spread of COVID-19, Raven and Adam asked guests to take COVID tests prior to the wedding and have their temperatures taken.
The couple, however, reportedly only had 20 family members in attendance and many of them were already vaccinated.
"We wanted to make sure it was safe for everyone," Adam shared. "Everything changed from our original plan. But life can throw curve balls. You have to adapt!"
Now that the couple is officially married, they said they look forward to continuing their life together and starting a family in the near future.
"I'm so excited to spend my life with Adam," Raven gushed. "He makes every day better."
Raven and Adam got engaged in May 2019 after falling in love on Bachelor in Paradise's fourth season.
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RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOWThe pair had initially scheduled their wedding for May 30, 2020.
"I've replanned the wedding three times now," Raven, 29, told Us Weekly on the magazine's "Here for the Right Reasons" podcast in August 2020. "So I just totally stopped. I'm like, 'I'm not doing this anymore.'"
Raven didn't clarify at the time whether she and Adam had actually set and rescheduled several wedding dates or if her plans were just changed and altered.
"We have options to elope, we have options to get married and cut down our guest list by, like, 150 people -- I'm not doing that," Raven said last year, adding, "I'm not uninviting people."
"So I told Adam by December [2020], if there is no end in sight, we're just going to elope and get married by ourselves, in our house. And if there is a light at the end of the tunnel by December, then we'll schedule this wedding for the fourth time."
Raven intended to let nature run its course instead of trying to plan her nuptials during uncertain times.
"You know what? If we accidentally get pregnant along the way [to the wedding], that's totally fine," Raven told Us in August 2020.
"I have baby fever, but Adam has extreme baby fever. He is read-y. He is ready."
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"It's happening. 3 more days!" Raven captioned the post.
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The day before her wedding, Raven posted a video of Adam dipping her in front of white and yellow balloons and a giant lit "Adam & Raven" sign.
Adam also wrote at the time on his own Instagram account next to a similar video, "Tomorrow I'll be dancing with my Mrs."
Raven previously said she was sure about Adam being her future partner when they had an overnight Fantasy Suite date in Mexico on Bachelor in Paradise in 2017.
"I was attracted to her right away," Adam, a real estate agent from Dallas, gushed to People of his now wife. "And our relationship really started post-show. We came together and we made it work."
"We're so completely different in every way. He's type A, I'm laid-back," Raven, a boutique owner and Arkansas native explained.
"He's a city boy, I'm a Southern girl. But we have common values. And I think our differences have made us better people."
Prior to appearing on Bachelor in Paradise, Raven competed to win Nick Viall's heart on The Bachelor's 21st season and finished as the runner-up.
Nick popped the question to winner Vanessa Grimaldi on The Bachelor's March 2017 finale, but they split five months later.
For Adam's part, he competed for Rachel Lindsay's heart on The Bachelorette's thirteenth season in Spring 2017 before his BIP stint on Season 4.
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