Taylor Lewan details his last-minute nuptials to wife Taylin — and how they improvised when it came to a wedding officiant and wedding bands
The Battle Camp host reveals how he proposed just one month after he met Taylin
The pair has welcomed two children since tying the knot
Battle Camp host Taylor Lewan had quite a unique item to solidify his marriage with wife Taylin Lewan.
Taylor, 33, appeared on an episode of The Viall Files released Thursday, May 8 and opened up about his whirlwind wedding to Taylin just two months after meeting her — and how they decided on their marriage date.
“As a joke, we [were] back in Nashville a couple months [after I proposed], and it was like right around 04/20. And we’re like, why don’t we get married on [April 20]? So we went to some chapel somewhere in Nashville… and we got married,” Taylor shared.
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From Left: Taylor and Taylin on Instagram
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However, since the plans were so last minute, there were a few things that were a bit out of the ordinary for a wedding ceremony — including the bands they used. “[I] found a guy online that was like a 24-hour service. He popped up,” Taylor recalled. “We didn’t have wedding bands. We used, like, hay straw.”
He added, “And we’ve been married for nine years now. Just celebrate our ninth year anniversary.”
The former NFL player revealed on The Viall Files that he had been planning for some time to propose for her and even tried to get a flight out to British Columbia, Canada to get Taylin’s parents blessing for their marriage.
“Her dad calls me, and he’s like, ‘Hey, I understand what you’re trying to do. You have my blessing, blah, blah, blah,’ ” he shared. “And so I was just waiting with the ring, and she always was like, ‘I wanna go to Iceland with the person I spend the rest of my life with.’ So I was like, booking a trip to Iceland.”
Taylor added, “We’re going do this. I basically got on my knee in a kitchen, and she sat on my knee.”
As for his advice for keeping the “spark alive,” he noted that it was important to put in effort “every day.”
“My wife, like, loves words of affirmation, acts of service [and] kind of all the love languages. She loves them all,” he shared. “That’s a positive for her because it’s like, there’s so many ways to scratch that itch for her to feel love. And it’s about not only me scratching those itches for her, but her telling me as well, like, ‘Hey, I need this from you.’ “
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From Left: Taylor and Taylin in Nashville on June 9, 2018
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The TV host previously revealed on Instagram that he started to get to know Taylin 10 days before Valentine’s Day in 2016. At the time, he was in Arizona while she lived in Nashville.
“You were going back to Nashville and I was so scared if you would even come back,” he captioned a black-and-white photo of them. “2 weeks later you came back to AZ and we got engaged, I love you so much.”
The couple married in April 2016 but waited to announce the news until later that summer in July. The following year, Taylor and Taylin welcomed their first child, a daughter named Wynne. They expanded their family again with another daughter, Willow, born in July 2019.
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