“I had surrendered, like ‘Okay, well, I’m never going to get any sort of traditional marriage out of this, and that’s okay because I trust him,'\" she continued. \"I really, really trusted him and believed that we were going to go the long haul.”
However, Shepard decided to propose in 2009, knowing how much it meant to his Bell, he told the publication.
\"Ultimately, I was like, ‘Well, I’m doing it because my partner wants that,'\" he said. \"Forget the tradition or history of marriage as a concept, you knowing I was doing something that I didn’t want to do because I loved you was a big sign for you.\"
“We do a lot of things differently, but there’s a couple things where I’m just like, ‘God, can we not just fall inside the lines once in a while?\" Bell said. \"It felt nice afterwards.\"
She also described her wedding day in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning in 2016.
\"We got married in a tiny room in the Beverly Hills courthouse, and it was still one of the best days of my life,\" she said.
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