Clare Crawley: Why my mother was ‘unable’ to attend my wedding to Ryan

A change in plans. Clare Crawley and her husband, Ryan Dawkinsplanned to hold two wedding ceremonies, but several factors got in the way.

“I wanted to get married in Mexico. We both found this place in Mexico. We were like, ‘This is our place. We’re going to have this big party,” the former Bachelorette, 42, recalled during an appearance on the episode “Most Dramatic Podcast Ever With Chris Harrison” on Thursday, May 25. “I had waited forever to get married.”

She added: “I have always wanted to get married on June 21 [the] summer solstice. I was like, ‘What if she doesn’t make it to June 21?’ Eventually she got really sick [in the] the end of January. And so I said, ‘Let’s have a mini wedding because she won’t be able to come to Mexico anyway. A little mini wedding just for her. A special little one for us, for her.’”

Clare Crawley with her mother Lilia.

Courtesy of Clare Crawley/Instagram

Crawley’s mother, Lilia, had previously been diagnosed with dementia, which took a turn for the worse during her wedding plans. As a result, the couple decided to have an intimate ceremony with only her mother and Dawkins’ two daughters from a previous relationship as witnesses.

“We wanted to make it small. Everyone [else] would come to the big wedding,” the hair stylist recalled emotionally as the host Chris Harrison. “But my mother got really sick the day before. She couldn’t make it. She is still doing well, but she was just very ill at the time and could not leave the nursing home.”

The couple eventually decided to go ahead with their planned plans and tied the knot in February.

“Ryan is an event planner by nature, so he planned the whole wedding. I was kind of frozen with, “What do we do?” It was very last things and I was so worried about my mother,” Crawley added on Thursday. “But he took control, he planned everything.”

She continued: “We had a little ceremony. We had the best vows to each other, super personal. It was on the spot [where] we had our first kiss. It was just the best spot.

The pair, who got engaged at the RISE Festival in October 2022, confirmed a month earlier that they were first linked in 2021.

“I Wasn’t Ready To Date Again”, The Bachelor Winter Games alum exclusively told Us weekly in October 2022 from meeting her now husband. “The second time I was single, he said, ‘Let me take you.’ And he knew I was at such a low point and I told him I wasn’t even ready to go out to dinner.

She added at the time: “I had to take space to have time to myself to heal. I didn’t want him to be a rebound.”

Before falling in love with the CEO of Mascot Sports, Crawley was briefly engaged to Benoit Beauséjour-Savard after meeting Winter Games in 2018. After the relationship failed, she led The Bachelorette season 16 and we hit it off right away Dal Moss. The former footballer, 34, proposed after just 12 days and they left the show early. The now-exes were together occasionally until they broke up for good in September 2021.

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