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Derek Hough, 38, and Hayley Erbert, 28, are formally married! The attractive couple wed in Monterey County, California, on August 26, and revealed their first wedding ceremony picture to PEOPLE. They shared the marriage picture on their Instagram pages as nicely. Derek and Hayley tied the knot in entrance of 106 friends.
“We’re in a redwood forest, but we got married right in front of this mother tree that’s surrounded by all these smaller trees,” Hayley instructed the outlet. “They drop all the seeds, and it plants kind of like an army of children to protect the mother. The symbolism of it was beautiful. We’re here, planting our seeds to grow our family.”
During their ceremony, Derek and Hayley exchanged private and conventional vows. Hayley wore a customized wedding ceremony robe designed by Georgina Chapman from Marchesa. She walked down the aisle to a rendition of Richard Walters’ “Unconditional” that the singer rewrote and recorded for the couple. The DWTS choose wore a Tom Ford go well with for the ceremony.
The couple held their wedding ceremony reception in a 100-year-old barn. Famous names on the visitor listing included Jenna Johnson, Shawn Johnson, Nina Dobrev, Shaun White, Alfonso Ribeiro, Freida Pinto, Amy Purdy, Robert and Kym Hejavec, and, after all, Julianne Hough.
Derek and Hayley are each very achieved dancers who met when Hayley joined Derek and Julianne’s MOVE Live Tour in 2014. Their paths then crossed once more when Hayley was employed as a member of the DWTS season 21 troupe, which ended up being one other profitable season for Derek, who was partnered with Bindi Irwin. The couple started courting sooner or later after that however didn’t go public with their relationship till 2017.