Renee Orteri - Bachelor 18 Contestant - Spoilers/Discussion

tigertiz wrote:http://www.wetpaint.com/the-bachelor/articles/2014-03-21-renee-oteri-bracy-maynard-elope

Here's lots more. She certainly is a glowing bride.  You dont have to spend $3000 on a wedding dress to look pretty!
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Indeed the gorgeous pics capture Renée and Bracy’s love perfectly, not that it's hard to make the duo look good. So, did new Seattle friend Des make the dress? “No but she loved it! I got it from a consignment shop for 50 dollars!” Renée boasts of her lovely look. “It’s from the 1970s, just ivory with lace. And I wore Payless shoes, did my own hair… I did the whole thing for under a hundred bucks!”

alwaystulips wrote:I didn't watch Juan Pablo's season, so I don't know much about Renee.  She looks like a really down to earth, nice and fun person.  They look so happy together!

Their romance and engagement are the sweetest stories, beginning when they were just kids. (“I even have it in my diary from when I was 12: I want to marry Bracy Maynard!” Renee gushes.) While they dated a few years after Renée’s divorce (from Ben's dad), they broke up in 2010, and lost touch for a while. It had been mostly long distance, with Renée living in Massachusetts and Bracy in Colorado. Fast forward to this past year, and everything changed.

While Bracy knew she was doing the show, they were just friends at that point. But after, he had moved to Florida, and she returned to her life in Sarasota. They were talking and they met up and totally hit it off. So when he got a new job in Seattle at the end of February, Bracy, Ben, and Renée packed up and moved west. It was during their house scouting trip that he proposed. Since then, they've been making a life for themselves in a new community and Ben just started school. "He's loving it," she tells Wetpaint of her now 9-year-old who celebrates his birthday the day after his mom's new anniversary.

“The best part of the whole day was when they said that we are married… we are officially married. I can't believe it. And when he read his vows to me, and when I tried to read mine,” she says with a laugh. “I bawled hysterically. We wrote our own vows, but I couldn’t even read them. I couldn’t even make it through a sentence. So, Bracy went first and of course he hand wrote his… And I read mine off my iPhone.”