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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 17: Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams attend the 2022 ABC Disney Upfront at Basketball City - Pier 36 - South Street on May 17, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

Wells Adamsis happily married to the love of his life,Sarah Hyland.

During the 2022Bachelor in ParadiseRed Carpet Tastemaker event on Saturday, the reality star spoke to PEOPLE about his recent nuptials to theModern Familyactress, which was held on Aug. 20 inan outdoor ceremony in Santa Barbara.

While watching Hyland, 31, walk down the aisle on their big day, theBachelor in Paradisebartender shared that he got quite emotional.

“There’s a picture on my Instagram with me crying and thenJesse Tyler Fergusonwas officiating us, and he was crying,” Adams, 38, said. “And my best man who’s my brother was next to me. He was crying, so everyone was crying.”

“She looked beautiful,” he continued, adding: “What was going through my mind was this can’t be real, this can’t be real life. And just how blessed and lucky I am to get to marry my perfect person.”

The August ceremony — which hosted around 200 guests, according to Adams — was also aModern Familyreunion of sorts, withAriel Winter,Nolan Gould,Sofia Vergara, andJulie Bowenin addition to Ferguson all in attendance to celebrate Hyland.

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As for his favorite part of the wedding, Adams said it was the moment when he was able to “kiss her the second time.”

“We walked halfway down the aisle and kissed again, and we did a church kiss the first time,” he told PEOPLE. “And the second time was a real passionate one. And everyone’s cheering. So I think that was it.”

The preparation leading up to the special day was definitely a team effort from both the bride and the groom, with Adams noting he “was pretty involved, as much as a guy I guess can be involved.”

Adams and Hyland first started dating in 2017, after Hyland had been quite public about hercrush on Adamswhile he starred in JoJo Fletcher’s season ofThe Bachelorette. They wereengagedin 2019, and facedmultiple wedding delaysdue to the pandemic before finally exchanging vows, two years after their original date.

After tying the knot, the newlyweds jetted off to the Maldives for their honeymoon last month, with the pair packing on the PDA and enjoying some tropical cocktails under the sun.

“Paradise on Love Island🏝✨,” Hyland wrote in the Instagram caption at the time alongside a series of photos from the couple’s romantic getaway.

source: people.com