Bachelor in ParadiseAlum Carly Waddell Reveals She's Engaged to Todd Allen Tressler After Proposing to Him Last Year!

Mar. 15, 2025

Carly Waddell Reveals She’s Engaged to Todd Allen Tressler.Photo:Carly Waddell/Instagram

Carly Waddell/Instagram

Wedding bells will soon be ringing forCarly Waddelland Todd Allen Tressler!

Waddell, who was a contestant on the nineteenth season ofThe Bachelorand returned for the second and third season ofBachelor in Paradise,announced her engagement to the attorney viaInstagramon Oct. 17.

“A little thing happened in Costa Rica 💍,” Waddell, 39, captioned her post, which featured a video of Tressler proposing to her on the beach alongside her two children, whom she shares with her ex-husband. The video was posted to her single, “So I Do.”

In her caption, Waddell revealed that she actually proposed to Tressler first about a year ago.

“Many of yall have been wondering why Todd wears a ring on his hand and it is actually because I asked him last Halloween to marry me first! (I’ll give you way more of this story SOON) BUT SPOILER ALERT, he said yes, even though to be honest he was so shocked it was hard for him to be!” Waddell continued. “Then, also SPOILER ALERT he asked me THIS October and I also said YES!!!!”

The bride-to-be also showed off her custom Toi et Moi engagement ring in the Instagram Reel, explaining in the caption, “We had been looking at the traditional ring shops for a while and I knew what direction I wanted to go with it but we chose@jamesallenringsto custom design exactly what I wanted and I didn’t see the final product until he was down on his knee. It’s more beautiful then I could have ever imagined it to be. Here’s to a new chapter with my dream man, and then dream ring he put on my left hand ❤️#jamesallenpartner.”

The former couple welcomed a daughter and son during their marriage — 6-year-oldIsabella “Bella” Evelynand 4-year-oldCharles “Charlie” Wolfe. Waddell and Bass announcedtheir separationin December 2020.

source: people.com