The Bachelorette alum Michelle Young has celebrated her bridal shower and introduced her maid of honor from Bachelor Nation.
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The Season 18 The Bachelorette star recently took to Instagram to share a carousel of photos from her beautiful bridal shower at Ardor on the Bluffs in Minnesota, where she was surrounded by family and friends.
Michelle wore a blush and white midi-dress, while Jack sported a white and khaki look.
"My heart is so full," Michelle captioned her post, which included photos of appetizers and Michelle sitting in front of a sign that read, "THE FUTURE Mrs. Lewis."
Jack commented on Michelle's post, "Give her all her flowers."
It's no surprise Michelle celebrated her nuptials in Minnesota given it's where both she and Jack are from. The couple also currently lives there together.
Michelle also revealed her maid of honor is The Bachelor alum Ryan Claytor, who competed against Michelle for Matt James' heart on The Bachelor's 25th season.
Ryan, for her part, uploaded pictures from the event and wrote, "A Bride -- A Maid of Honor! Can't wait to stand by your side all the way through."
Michelle and Jack met through their mutual friends, and Michelle hard launched their relationship in October 2023 by writing on social media how she had "hit the Jackpot" with her man.
Jack proposed marriage to The Bachelorette alum with a 3.56-carat, emerald-cut diamond at Centennial Lakes in their Minnesota in October 2024 and the pair got engaged.
Michelle recently showed off her Save the Dates on Instagram, and she discussed her upcoming wedding during a February episode of "The Ben & Ashley I: Almost Famous Podcast" co-hosted by Ben Higgins and Ashley Iaconetti.
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Michelle teased that she and Jack were in "full-force wedding planning" at the time.
"We have a date picked out. We have a venue picked out. It is [this year], and it's coming up quick here, I will say that!" Michelle shared.
"We got right to it! The man means business. It's really kind of nice. Long engagements are fine too, but we were like, 'Yeah, we're engaged, let's do life together -- let's go!' And so it's been fun with the whole wedding planning thing."
Michelle said she and Jack had already established their wedding party and were having a lot of fun.
"We never had this ideal [wedding plan] of like, 'Let's do this, and let's do this,'" Michelle explained.
"And so once we got engaged, we kind of started to look at what time of year we wanted it, how long we wanted to wait, and that conversation really pushed us to be like, 'Okay, we've really got to lock something down here.'"
Michelle fell for Jack after a broken engagement to her The Bachelorette 18 winner Nayte Olukoya.
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Michelle previously claimed she was completely blindsided by Nayte's decision to break up with her after only six months of dating post-The Bachelorette finale.
The Bachelor alum was also shocked that Nayte had dumped her in a phone call shortly after her birthday.
Nayte said on the "Bachelor Rush Hour With Dave Neal" podcast in December 2023 that he had trust issues and the pair fought constantly -- but he never cheated.
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Nayte said he had known early on that his relationship with Michelle wasn't going to last and so he felt "a huge relief" when they called it quits.
Nayte also confessed that The Bachelorette was a "terrible" chapter in his life that "really f-cked" him up.
When asked to share how her engagement to Jack is different from what she had with Nayte, Michelle said during her recent "Almost Famous Podcast" that they "don't compare at all."
Michelle shared, "Jack calms my nervous system so much, and he really puts my anxiety at bay. I feel like with him, social media has seen a little bit more of my goofy side."
Michelle gushed about how Jack made her feel comfortable, accepted and loved. She also boasted about having great communication with that "gem" of a man.
"He's somebody who's always going to stick around," Michelle noted, adding how this relationship is "healthy" and her romance with Nayte was not.
"I don't know how I found him in Minnesota... but he is a lovely man. He's so wonderful," Michelle concluded.
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