Zach Bryan has confirmed his marriage to Samantha Leonard.
Bryan, 29, took to Instagram on Wednesday, December 31, and shared a black-and-white picture of him carrying Leonard, 28, as she sported a strapless white bridal robe with a feathery hem. The glad couple smiled as Leonard held a wine glass.
“More durable than the remainder,” he captioned his put up, which additionally included a video of him performing the Bruce Springsteen track with the identical identify at their marriage ceremony reception.
Earlier Wednesday, the nation star was noticed holding Leonard in his arms after exchanging vows in Spain, a number of retailers reported. A video posted by way of Instagram confirmed the newlyweds laughing as they hopped right into a convertible and drove off into the proverbial sundown.
The day earlier than the marriage, Bryan shared a photograph of him along with his man pals, including a caption that cited lyrics from the Black Eyes Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling.” On December 29, Bryan posted a clip of him crooning a heartfelt track on the guitar that seemingly referenced his upcoming nuptials.
“I made a girl fall in love and made our younger hearts cry,” he sang. “I’m on an aeroplane sure to Spain tonight.”
On Wednesday, Leonard posted a clip by way of her Instagram Tales through which she and Bryan touched down on an airplane.
The couple had been first linked in August. That October, Bryan paid tribute to his new love by way of Instagram, writing, “From bull runs to all of the bulls***, immediately is your birthday and I like you Samantha Marie. To the one lady who can hike six miles in Chanel flats, skydive over the alps and catch a much bigger fish than me all in the identical day. Hope your day was as swish as you’re.”
Sparks flew between Bryan and Leonard one 12 months after his not-so-amicable cut up with Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia, whom he dated from the summer season of 2023 as much as fall 2024.
“Brianna and me [sic] have damaged up with one another and I respect and love her with each ounce of my coronary heart. She has cherished me unconditionally for a really very long time and for that, I’ll all the time thank her,” Bryan stated in a press release in October 2024. “I’ve had an extremely arduous 12 months personally and struggled by means of some fairly extreme issues. I assumed it might be helpful for each of us to go our other ways. I’m not good and by no means can be.”
LaPaglia, 26, has stated that the breakup blindsided her and accused Bryan of being emotionally abusive. (Us Weekly reached out for remark on the time. Bryan hasn’t responded to the allegations.)
LaPaglia’s followers, in the meantime, have famous the bodily resemblance between her and Leonard.
“Subsequent query is [one] that I received one million instances. ‘What do you consider Zach’s girlfriend wanting precisely such as you?’” LaPaglia stated throughout an October episode of her “Plan Bri Uncut” podcast. “I feel that’s narcissism textbook 101, like, that’s what narcissists do. They only go and discover one other model of you up to now.”
She continued, “Persons are like, ‘Are you creeped out? Are you mad? Are you flattered?’ I’m flattered to be trustworthy. I dyed my hair so that folks [would] cease sending me each single image that he posts of her, and I blocked him. I don’t wanna see this [and] I don’t wish to take pleasure in something that he does.”
