Derek Hough MARRIES Hayley Erbert
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00:00 I'm always planning the next adventure.
00:01 We're gonna have some adventures for sure.
00:03 The next adventure for Derek Hough and Hailey Erbert?
00:06 Living life as Mr. and Mrs.
00:09 She's really, really grounded.
00:10 She's really just down to earth and just a good heart.
00:14 Beautiful soul.
00:15 Yeah, yeah.
00:18 The Dancing with the Stars judge and pro dancer
00:20 tied the knot after seven years of dating.
00:23 It's pretty exciting.
00:24 The pair announced their engagement back in June.
00:27 Derek proposed with a scene out of a fairy tale.
00:30 Hundreds of candles and flowers, seriously dreamy stuff.
00:35 Basically, I just said,
00:37 I want hundreds and hundreds of candles,
00:40 flowers everywhere.
00:41 I want it to be transformed.
00:42 Just the whole space transformed
00:43 into something really, really special.
00:45 After the big proposal, Derek told ET
00:47 it wasn't easy planning.
00:49 Pulling off a proposal to Hailey, it's surprising her.
00:52 For sure, it was way more difficult.
00:53 Yeah, yeah.
00:54 No, that was like some covert operations.
00:57 Hailey and Derek's journey to the aisle
00:58 all started back in 2015,
01:01 when the two met as pro dancers on Dancing with the Stars.
01:04 With a single kiss.
01:05 A few years after they began dating,
01:21 Derek told ET why he didn't feel rushed to get married.
01:25 Do I feel pressured getting married?
01:27 No, you know what?
01:28 I don't actually.
01:29 You know, I'm building a house right now.
01:31 I feel like I've been building it for 25 years now.
01:33 It's taken a long time.
01:35 So it's like, for me, I'm looking at things at stages.
01:39 And for me, that's gonna be the next stage
01:41 so it can get settled in that way,
01:43 physically grounded and physically settled.
01:45 And then who knows?
01:46 Who knows where life takes us?
01:49 Fast forward just a couple of years later
01:51 and the COVID pandemic hit.
01:53 And while many couples struggled,
01:55 Derek explained it actually made his relationship
01:57 with Hailey grow stronger.
01:59 It's a weird time, but it's funny,
02:01 before this all happened,
02:04 you know, Hailey and I were talking about our love languages
02:06 and hers was quality time.
02:07 So I joked around saying,
02:09 "Hey babe, well, ask and you shall receive."
02:11 We have the most insane amount of quality time ever,
02:15 but it's been really great.
02:16 We've bonded a lot.
02:17 It's been good.
02:20 And despite both Hailey and Derek
02:22 being seriously talented dancers and choreographers,
02:25 Derek was adamant with E.T.
02:27 His wedding day won't involve a formal five, six, seven, eight.
02:31 And I've been to some weddings where there are dancers
02:33 and then they do a dance, a choreographed dance.
02:36 And I'm like, "Okay, this is your day.
02:41 Relax."
02:43 I would feel weird like,
02:43 "Okay, now I'm gonna do a choreographed dance
02:46 at my wedding."
02:48 It would feel strange to me, personally.
02:50 And then there's a pressure and you're like,
02:51 "Oh, you're worrying."
02:52 I don't wanna worry on my wedding day, right?
02:54 Which echoes what he told us again in June.
02:57 People always say that.
02:58 They're always like,
02:59 "Your wedding dance is gonna be off the hook."
03:00 And I'm like, "Honestly,
03:02 I don't know if we wanna do a wedding dance."
03:05 Maybe we'll do a little something side to side,
03:06 but nothing elaborate because we dance every day.
03:09 You want the night off.
03:10 Yeah, we're like, "This is our night.
03:11 You all perform for us."
03:13 It's like, "Let's see what you have planned for us."
03:15 Right, right. I love it.
03:17 So whether it was a casual sway back and forth
03:20 or choreographed cha-cha-cha,
03:22 one thing's for sure, marriage looks good on the huffs.
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