The Bachelor alum Kelsey Anderson has opened up about wedding planning as she and fiance Joey Graziadei prepare for their 2027 wedding.
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"We have looked at four different venues in the past couple of weeks, so that's been really exciting," Kelsey told co-hosts Charity Lawson and Rachel Recchia on the Thursday, January 22 episode of the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast.
"We're like, 'We like this, we don't like this.' It's a process, but we're hoping to have a venue locked in next month. I'm stressing!"
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Kelsey and Joey, however, haven't even settled on a location for their wedding yet.
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"We're literally looking at California, Georgia, Philly -- everywhere! We're looking everywhere," Kelsey noted, before joking, "I want to know where the venue is, actually."
Kelsey apparently hasn't even picked out her wedding dress yet.
"I found out recently -- I was talking to one of my friends that just got married, she was like, 'Yeah, girl, eight months out is short notice for wedding dresses.' I was like, 'Oh my gosh!'" Kelsey shared.
"When we initially got our wedding planner and started this whole process, I felt like I had so much time! And within these past couple of months, it's actually like, 'No, we have no time.'"
Kelsey joked about how it takes so much time to plan and execute a nice wedding but her fans would probably be mad if she and Joey got married in a quickie Las Vegas-chapel ceremony with Elvis officiating.
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Kelsey also boasted about how Joey has been so helpful through each planning stage.
"Joey has booked all of our tours! He has been coordinating with our wedding planner because I've been so stressed out," The Bachelor 28 winner admitted.
"It's overwhelming and so I completely shut down! I think it's an ADHD trait. So Joey has been helping so much with planning all that. I know once we get the wedding-planning venue locked in... [then] we can worry about the little details."
Kelsey noted that she'll be "way more hands on" with the smaller stuff.
"But with all the flights and the hotels and all of that, [Joey] has been great," Kelsey gushed.
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"He's very chill, but with the wedding, he knows there's a timeline of when we need things planned, so he's been more on it."
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Charity called that "so refreshing" because her fiance from The Bachelorette, Dotun Olubeko, is "very Type B and goes with the flow."
Charity joked, "He's like, 'Whatever you want!' And I'm like, 'Let me tell you one thing: it's not what I want, it's what we both want. So come over here right now because we need to talk about this!'"
When asked if she's going to have a wedding party with bridesmaids, Kelsey replied, "Yes, but I don't know if they're going to stand up [at the altar] with us."
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"I feel like if we have 50 bridesmaids and groomsmen, it's just going to look crazy when we're standing up there!" Kelsey explained.
"It's going to look like a lot if you have, like, 10 people on each side... Just starting off, I have two sisters and Joey has two sisters. I have two brothers, so there's already a lot of family members right off the bat."
Kelsey therefore said she's "not 100 percent sure" if she's going to ask friends to join the wedding party.
But Kelsey laughed about how Joey won't allow any of their tall male family members to stand next to him at the wedding.
In terms of their wedding vows, Kelsey said she and Joey will write their own personal vows and recite them in front of their guests.
Kelsey said she believes sharing their vows with family and friends is something "sweet" to do.
In terms of her "non-negotiables" for the wedding, Kelsey shared, "I definitely want to have an oyster bar and a sushi bar. I think we both want that really bad."
But Kelsey continued, "I just want it to really incorporate each other and be sentimental. I am such a sentimental person."
"So I just want it to feel like Joey and I. I feel like whenever the day comes, I'm going to be so chill, like, 'If everything goes wrong, everything goes wrong,'" she concluded.
"I'm not going to be the person who's like, 'The linens are not correct!'... It's a celebration of our love, and that's exactly what I want it to be."
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Late last year, Dancing with the Stars pro Jenna Johnson revealed she'll be choreographing Joey and Kelsey's first dance as husband and wife.
"Her and [fellow DWTS pro Val Chmerkovskiy] are going to make sure that we look as good as we can," Joey shared at the time.
Jenna went on to gush about how she'd do "anything" for "queen Kelsey," adding, "I can't wait to see her do a little waltz in a wedding dress! I'll cry."
Joey and Jenna won Dancing with the Stars' 33rd season in late 2024, not long after his engagement aired on The Bachelor's Season 28 finale in March 2024 on ABC.
Joey also shared at the time that he wants his wedding to make all of Kelsey's dreams come true.
In September 2025, Joey and Kelsey confirmed to People that they won't be televising their wedding, although Joey clarified that they have "nothing against" the Bachelor Nation couples who have.
Joey just noted how he and his fiancee would like their wedding to be an "intimate" affair that they can "shape" however they please.
Kelsey elaborated how it will feel "good" to have the ceremony be about just the two of them.
"This will be for us. We'll show little glimpses for sure through social media and everything, so people [will feel] like they're a part of it, but I think that we just want it to be for us," Kelsey said at the time.
Kelsey had told Sports Illustrated Swimsuit in May 2025 that she and Joey were aiming to tie the knot in Spring 2027.
"I definitely want our wedding to be pretty timeless," Kelsey shared. "I want it to be able, in
30 or 40 years, to look like it could be done then."
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