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Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney, the first “Bachelor” couple to ever walk down the aisle, will share a new chapter of their love story when ABC televises their wedding on “The Bachelor: Jason and Molly’s Wedding,”.

Weeks of planning and anticipation culminate with former “Bachelor” star Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney declaring their love for one another before family, friends, past “Bachelor” and “Bachelorette” couples, stars and participants, who are all there to help them celebrate.

The guest list includes Trista and Ryan Sutter, Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski, Charlie O’Connell and Sarah Brice, DeAnna Pappas, Kiptyn Locke, Jesse Csincsak, and Natalie Getz, Stephanie Hogan and Nikki Kaapke, all bachelorettes from Jason’s edition of “The Bachelor.”

Jason and Molly held a conference call where they discussed their past and their future.  Check out the interview after the jump!!  More photos after the jump too!!

Question: Can you talk a little bit about what made the day so special for you and did the rain really put a damper on things?

Molly Mesnick: Oh gosh, no. I loved every minute of the rain. It’s started to rain in the middle of the ceremony, actually, right when I was starting to say my vows and we both just looked at each other and laughed and it just – it will always make this day far more special than it every could have been.

Jason Mesnick: Yes, I mean I think for me I was thinking about this earlier, it’s kind of a combo of – it’s too bad you guys don’t get to see this but Ty ran down the aisle literally a minute before Molly walked out so I ran and had the (inaudible) tackle me, I had this huge moment with Ty and I was all emotional. I took him to his seat and then like 30 seconds later Molly was at the top of the stairs and I started crying all over again and it was just – I think it was like, you know, a combination of all of that.

Question: Molly can you talk about how you knew, your dress was the

Molly Mesnick: Well, what I did is I went, Monique Lhuillier did the dress so I met with her and tried on a bunch of different styles but I knew going into a kind of what I wanted. I wanted that mermaid -style dress, something a little more form fitting on the top, but I need to try other styles on just to kind of get a feel but once we put on the style that I thought that I wanted we both looked at each other and just said, yes, like this is the one. I felt good in it. She thought I looked wonderful in it, but then we also, you know, touched and made a few more designs onto the dress. It was just when I was with her, we picked the actual style and then worked on the details from there, but she was phenomenal to work with. I mean, you saw she put together an incredible dress.

Question: Molly, tell me how you guys stayed focused following The Bachelor and were able to really make your relationship work because you guys are a real example for what The Bachelor could be.

Molly Mesnick: Yes honestly, I think a lot of it was the fact that we stayed away from Hollywood and went right back into our normal life. I went right back to work the week following. Jason went back to work and we just focused on being a normal couple. It wasn’t about, you know, keeping our face out there. We just, you know, he has Ty and we wanted to integrate each other into our own normal lives and I think that really, really helped us to stay strong and stay, you know, normal what that is for us.

Jason Mesnick: I think she’s right because it’s funny like after Jesse and DeAnna had split up, they said, you know, one of the hardest things were being out in the public in LA and trying to do some of that stuff and that really was part of the reason of the downfall of their relationship so I think, you know, one thing is we could never do that, you know, Molly knew, you know, coming here that, you know, she was coming to Seattle and I live in Seattle and I’m with my son a lot of the time so we really listened to other people’s advise and plus it’s what we wanted to do is just get back to normal.

Question: Jason it seemed like you really were there to find love, not to be on TV, not to be a celebrity and not to get your 15 minutes so do you think that, you know, having those true intentions really is what made this with Molly work.

Jason Mesnick: I think so. I mean everybody, you know, you could see, you know, throughout the show, everybody goes on TV for a different reason right and part of it is definitely the experience. But I mean I think if you look at like, you know, the people that have been on the show recently, you know, some people have gone off and done certain things and like, you know, Jakes gone on “Dancing with the Stars” and it’s more power to people that want to do that type of stuff but, you know, Molly and I have really focused on, you know, just getting back to Seattle and doing what we want to do and, you know, Molly loves going to kind of her day job and I’ve kind of moved on to do some, you know, I started a non-profit called Project Parachute and working with that kind of stuff based out of Seattle and, you know, being her with Ty is what we really want to be doing.

Question: Well, it was your wedding and it looked spectacular but it seemed to be like there would be many, many people sort of weighing in about different choices and things like that. How much freedom did you really have in terms of who is invited and the content of the wedding etc.

Molly Mesnick: I had absolute like 100 percent control over every single detail that had to do with the wedding. I picked the colors, I picked the dresses, I picked the jewelry, I picked how the tables would look, you know, Jason and I collaborated obviously together. We had all the power in the world to make this any sort of wedding that we wanted it.

Question: What about the people who were invited I mean, you know, some celebrities were invited obviously and did you know all those people or was it –

Molly Mesnick: Yes we did. There were a lot of articles that came out actually that said that ABC was telling us who to invite and what not, that was not the case at all.

Jason Mesnick: I mean yes, we knew – there are people from The Bachelor that we knew and we are friends with and obviously, you know, a couple of couple like Ryan and Trista and Charlie and Sarah were important to be there and those are discussions that we had.

Jason Mesnick: We were absolutely OK with everybody being there.

Question: My question has to do with you are now the second couple in Bachelor, Bachelorette history to walk down the aisle and I was wondering why do you think your relationship is only the second to succeed and do you think that love can be found in the time you were taping or does it take a lot of time to go from say the end of the taping to what it bliss.

Molly Mesnick: Oh, that’s actually a really good question. I think that the show definitely brings people together and you see enough of the person and spend enough time with the person to know that you want more time with them, but I do think the period after the show is done filming is crucial for your relationship. I mean that’s when you’re back in the real world being normal people, seeing what their day-to-day life is like and that’s what’s really important to keeping a couple together.

Jason Mesnick: I think, definitely it’s possible. The probability is obviously, you know, not huge but I think it’s, you know, if you relate that to real life like I mean, how many people I’ve dated, if there’s been let’s just say 20 bachelors and bachelorettes total and two have gotten married, that’s 10 percent. I mean I’ve dated way more – most who have dated more than 20 people find one partner so I think it’s kind of a really similar as far as that goes.

Question: What are your honeymoon plans.

Molly Mesnick: We have big honeymoon plans. We’re heading to South Africa in a week.

Jason Mesnick: We (inaudible) a week and we’re going to be there for two weeks and it’s like, you know, Molly and I had this discussion like, well we want something that’s kind of part relaxing, part like really fun and adventurous and we both always want to go on a safari so we’re going to kind of hang out in the beaches in South Africa and head into the jungle and see some wildlife.

Question: You know, obviously we’ve got Jake, Vienna and there is Jillian and Ed, bachelorette, has anyone approached you for advice maybe on whether they should televise their nuptials?

Molly Mesnick: All right, we’ve actually been talking to Jillian and Ed quite a bit about it. I mean we ourselves had an absolutely incredible experience doing it, and I know when we were thinking about whether or not to do it, we reached out to Ryan and Trista to see how their experience was and they had nothing but wonderful things to say as well, but obviously it depends on the people, if they want to do that or not but we had a really great experience doing it.

Jason Mesnick: Yes, I mean without a doubt. I mean I think the only little quirk was, you know, because Ty was a huge part of it but he’s not, you know, a televised part of it and for us, you know, we worked around that without a problem and they don’t even have that as a worry in their mind at all so we definitely talked it through.

Question: Molly, do you have any, bitterness about what happened with Melissa and everything that happened with The Bachelor?

Molly Mesnick: You know, I don’t think Jason and I would be sitting here today if we hadn’t gone through everything that we went through when The Bachelor ended. I mean it was a very, very difficult period of time for us but it brought us a lot – it sounds very clique but it brought us so much closer. You know, there is a piece of me that is so happy to have this happy ending for everyone to experience with us because it really is like our true, like absolute happy moment.

Jason Mesnick: Yes, Molly gets it all, Molly deserves it all.

Jason Mesnick: I always said like throughout all this, you know, people can, you know, go ahead and be upset with me but Molly, it’s like let’s all love Molly, that’s a totally separate thing.

Molly Mesnick: Oh Jason.

Jason Mesnick: You try to do an awesome, you know, Molly and I were talking about this this morning is, as if like a week-and- a- half ago Ty was, you know, his teacher came up to me and she’s like, you know, Ty was talking about weddings and what not and he said that he would definitely wants to live with a girl but he doesn’t want to get married when he grows up. I’m like, what does that mean, is like a dad, I’m like, that’s interesting for a five year old to talk about that and then after the wedding he was like daddy, now I want to get married. So, I mean he gets it as a kid, you know, I mean he’s five-years-old and he’s digesting this whole thing but most of what I told Ty that, you know, her and I are married but what you have at home is never going to change.

Question: I wanted to ask you a quick thing about Jason Castro. I’ve seen that he played for your wedding.

Molly Mesnick: Yes.

Andrea Reiher: How did that come about, how did you guys get hooked up with him and then what did he think? How was the music?

Molly Mesnick: OK Jason and I – I always knew when I walked down the aisle I didn’t walk down to the typical wedding march song. I wanted something a little more modern and Jason and I both love the rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” that Jason Castro sang but the person who originally sang this song had passed away and we know that Jason sang the same version of it on “American Idol” so it was a very easy choice to see if he would participate and do this favor for us and he was absolutely phenomenal. I mean he blew us away.

Jason Mesnick: Yes, I mean no kidding, I mean it was – I think everybody – I mean during the wedding and even during rehearsals everybody was like oh my God, look at that guy, it was unbelievable.

Molly Mesnick: It was perfect.

Jason Mesnick: He’s such a good guy too.

Molly Mesnick: Yes, he was a really good guy.

Question: What was the craziest part of wedding planning did you find, you know, any extra stress because it’s going to be on TV so everything has to be perfect, you know.

Molly Mesnick: Yes. I think honestly the most difficult part of planning a wedding is doing the table assignments.

Molly Mesnick: I mean especially we had 300 guests so it’s like the most impossible puzzle to put together, but I had a phenomenal team helping me out with all the planning, Jo Gartin was the wedding planner and he and Eden Rodriguez did all the décor for it and they like I trusted everything in their hands because they do really beautiful works. So honestly I feel like I stayed stress free throughout the whole process.

Jason Mesnick: I don’t know how she did that.

Question: Any little habits that you’re getting used to from one and another or have you pretty much hashed it all out since you’ve been living together.

Molly Mesnick: I think we’ve hashed it all out.

Jason Mesnick: I mean we’ve been living together for a while. I mean right now it’s more of adjusting to the gift boxes that are over the whole house.

Molly Mesnick: Yes, we can’t see our living room floor right now.

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