Former Bachelorette Michelle Young is nearly ready to walk down the aisle — but not without an adventure-packed sendoff from her loved ones.
“What a squad,” Young, 31, wrote via Instagram Stories on Saturday, May 17, sharing a selfie from their monster truck ride. “If you’re having a bachelorette party in [Arizona], I highly recommend checking out @desertmonstertours. We just had the time of our lives!”
Young, in particular, embraced her bridal era by rocking a white handkerchief that said, “Bride” across the middle. The rest of her crew wore pink versions.
Later that night, Young and her friends went to Cake Scottsdale and partied with a “Future Mrs. Leius” sign in honor of fiancé Jack Leius.
Leius proposed to the former Bachelorette in December 2024 after nearly a year of dating. He had organized a fake photo shoot to surprise Young.
“I completely froze when I saw Jack standing in the middle of this beautiful flower arch of white roses,” she told People at the time. “I was fooled so badly that for a moment I thought the joke was that Jack was one of the male models that I would be working with at the shoot.”
She added, “I tried to say yes several times but was in shock that no words really came out. There were a lot of happy tears and, of course, I said, ‘yes.’”
Young initially met Leius through a mutual friend.
“She has a good friend and her friend has a little brother, who I know, and her friend’s little brother posted Michelle in his [Instagram] Story and so I kinda just hit him up a couple times,” Leius said during their joint appearance on the “Almost Famous” podcast in January 2024, adding that he kept pestering his pal for an introduction.
Unbeknownst to Leius, Young did the same and asked for a meeting.
“I had no idea any of this was going on [and] I was with said little brother and my friend, and we were just talking,” Young recalled. “I said, ‘I have no idea how I’m supposed to meet my person in Minnesota. Like, [he] is definitely not in Minnesota at this point. I gotta start traveling more because they’re not on the apps!’”
Young and Leius met within a couple of hours, and immediately clicked.
“I think we spent the next four days together,” Leius added on the podcast. “And we were dating by Sunday.”
Young was previously engaged to Nayte Olukoya, whom she met on her season 18 of The Bachelorette. They broke up six months after their televised proposal aired.
