Clare Crawley Reveals Why Her Mom ‘Wasn’t Able’ Attend to Her Wedding to Ryan Dawkins: ‘I Was Kind of Frozen’
27.05.2023 - 19:17
/ usmagazine.com
A change in plans. Clare Crawley and her husband, Ryan Dawkins, planned to hold two wedding ceremonies but several factors got in the way.
“I wanted to get married in Mexico. We both found this spot in Mexico. We were like, ‘This is our spot. We’re going to have this big celebration,’” the former Bachelorette, 42, recalled during an appearance on “Most Dramatic Podcast Ever With Chris Harrison” on Thursday, May 25, episode. “I’d been waiting forever to get married.”
She added: “I always wanted to get married on June 21. It’s [the] summer solstice. I was like, ‘What if she doesn’t make it to June 21?’ She ended up getting really sick [in the] end of January. And so I said, ‘Let’s have a mini little wedding because she won’t be able to make it to Mexico anyway. A little mini wedding just for her. A special little one for us, for her.’”
Crawley’s mother, Lilia, had previously been diagnosed with dementia, which took a turn for the worse amid her wedding plans. As a result, the couple decided to hold an intimate ceremony with just her mother and Dawkins’ two daughters from a previous relationship as witnesses.
“We wanted to make it tiny. Everybody [else] was going to come to the big wedding,” the hairstylist emotionally recalled to host Chris Harrison. “But my mom ended up getting really, really sick the day before. She wasn’t able to make it. She’s OK still, but she was just really sick at the time and couldn’t leave the nursing home.”
The couple ultimately decided to go ahead with their scheduled plans, tying the knot in February.
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“Ryan, by nature, is an event planner, so he planned the whole wedding. I was kind of frozen with, ‘What do we do?’ It was very last-minute stuff