Tia Booth may have not realized it at the time, but she met The One in Taylor Mock before she even returned to Bachelor Nation for a second stint in Paradise.

Booth didn’t find love when she competed on The Bachelor for Arie Luyendyk Jr.‘s heart on the 2018 season. She appeared on season 5 of Bachelor in Paradise later that year where she briefly connected with Colton Underwood (who came out as gay in April 2021).

After years off of TV, Booth appeared on the 2021 season of BiP, dating Kenny Braasch, James Bonsall and Blake Monar. In the end, however, she found love when she returned to Nashville and started spending time with Mock, whom she met months before filming the series.

“He got the balls one day to try to hit on me and get me to hang out with him, and I was like, ‘Sweetie, I’m going on Bachelor in Paradise. I’ll see you later,’” she recalled on the “Click Bait” podcast in October 2021. “Then after I got home, I was like, ‘Damn, this freaking dude has been right here trying this whole time, which is all I asked for on the show.’ So then I gave it a shot and we’ve been good.”

They got engaged in 2022 and tied the knot in 2023.

Scroll through for a timeline of Booth and Mock’s romance: