Bachelorette & Traitors Star Gabby Windey Marries Robby Hoffman: ‘Meant to Be’

On Wednesday, the truth star introduced on Instagram that she and her associate Robby Hoffman had tied the knot on January 11 in Las Vegas, with the newlyweds opening up about their nuptials in an interview with Cosmopolitan.

Windey and Hoffman shared that they evacuated the Los Angeles wildfires in early January and determined to go to Las Vegas, the place they decided to get married.

“We had simply evacuated from the fires. Actually cue Rihanna, ‘We discovered love in a hopeless place,’” Windey recalled. “What higher time to get married than proper now? As a result of if the world is ending, we wish to be with one another.’”

The pair mentioned they checked into their lodge after explaining their scenario, and so they got the penthouse suite.

“It was like out of a film,” Windey mentioned, to which Hoffman added. “It seemed like a marriage suite. Gabby turned to me and he or she went, ‘Ought to we get married?’ And look: I have been proposing because the day I met her. We received to this room and it’s like out of a mafia film, 12-foot ceilings, a separate bed room from the lounge, that kind of lodge. And we have been like, ‘Whoa.’ After which Gabby floated getting married.”

“It was good, it being my thought. Robby was actually able to suggest three weeks in and I am at all times the one pumping the brakes, however when one thing feels proper, it simply feels proper,” Windey mentioned. “I believe it was higher for the each of us that it was my thought.”

Although they determined to tie the knot, the pair nonetheless wished to do a correct proposal, with Windey sharing that her now-wife had deliberate to suggest “in six months anyway, so she truly had a plan.”

“I used to be going a mile a minute at this level, as a result of day-after-day we have been in Vegas, we couldn’t go house,” Hoffman mentioned. “So there was that timeline, very weird. And on the identical time, I used to be like, Is she severe? As a result of my dream is coming true. I wish to be married to her — I do not care how.”

“Lastly by the third or fourth day of being like, ‘Ought to we do that?’ we realized, we get plenty of consideration — as a pair, as people, for what I do for work, for what she does for work — we get an amazing quantity of consideration. It’s one thing we admire and we love. However you realize what? Having this second only for us? It felt proper.”

For the proposal, Hoffman was impressed by their love of New York Occasions crosswords, and had a buddy make a customized one.

“I gave him the clues and the solutions, and I mentioned it needed to say, ‘WILL YOU MARRY ME, GABBY,’” she recalled.

After Windey mentioned sure, she and Hoffman celebrated their engagement — which lasted a day.

“We had our engagement dinner on the Wynn buffet over crab legs,” Windey informed Cosmo.

The pair then went looking for chapels, with Windey additionally going looking for a marriage costume.

“At first I wished to go full Kourtney Kardashian, the place she went in informal leather-based and Prada sun shades, however we wished to do our personal factor,” Windey recalled. “I went into malls and the primary costume I noticed on the model was off-white lace, and I used to be like, ‘That is gonna be it.’ It was the one one they’d in inventory. It was a bit of tight and made my butt look big, nevertheless it was good. Every part simply fell into place so naturally. It felt so serendipitous and so valuable and so meant to be.”

For the nupitals — which in the end value $800 — the couple walked down the aisle to “Scorching to Go!” by Chappell Roan.

“I truly can’t imagine how good it was,” Hoffman mentioned of the ceremony. “It was the perfect marriage ceremony I’ve ever been to. And by the way in which, we received the most costly marriage ceremony bundle they provided — they’ve one for $99! Have your self night time. We received to spend our marriage ceremony really collectively. We like to be collectively.”

“It was actually the perfect night time of my life. We have been dancing, taking photos,” Windey added. “We received possibly quarter-hour flat with Reverend Nature.”

Windey and Hoffman went on to replicate on their journey as newlyweds … to this point.

“Persons are like, ‘How does it really feel after you are married? Does it really feel the identical?’ And the reply is truthfully no — it feels higher. I really feel extra dedicated. That is my spouse,” Windey mentioned, to which Hoffman added, “I believe we simply really feel extra snug.”

Windey first appeared on Clayton Echard’s season of The Bachelor earlier than later turning into the Bachelorette herself in 2022. On the finish of the present, Windey received engaged to Erich Schwer, however the pair in the end known as it off.

It wasn’t till August 2023 that Windey revealed she was a member of the LGBTQ+ group and was relationship a lady, sharing that she and Hoffman had been collectively for 3 months at that time.