The Golden Bachelor’s Theresa Reveals the Wedding Tradition She Won’t Skip (Exclusive)

There are a few things Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist won’t be skipping at their upcoming wedding.

The The Golden Bachelor stars are set to say “I do” in a live ceremony on Jan. 4, and Nist, 70, tells PEOPLE she has some items on her bucket list to hit for the big day.

“Oh, I’m definitely going to do the bouquet toss,” she says, before adding with a laugh, “There’s a lot of women who want to catch that bouquet.”

Turner, 72, agrees, as the pair made their red carpet debut in New York. “Truth.”

“I’m sorry!” Nist says, apologizing for the comment — a sly reference to the 20 other women who vied for her fiance’s heart on national television in the inaugural season Bachelor spinoff show. “I think we’re going to do all the traditional things you normally do at a wedding.”

Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist share their January wedding vision: ‘It’s going to be spectacular’ (Exclusive)

As for whether there will be any familiar faces from Bachelor Nation at the ceremony, Nist teases, “You’ll probably see some,” though she’s keeping her cards close to her chest.

“We won’t tell you who, but you’ll see some.”

Theresa Nist and Gerry Turner during ‘The Golden Bachelor: After the Final Rose’.

John Fleenor/Disney via Getty

Turner, a retired restaurateur, says he just wants his bride-to-be to have the kind of wedding she didn’t have the first time around, when she married her high school sweetheart, Billy.

“You see, you have to remember, Theresa didn’t make it – when she first came, she didn’t have much time to plan, and neither did I, really,” he says. »We didn’t have much time and [we were] pretty broke, both of them. So this is kind of big. We want to do it so that we don’t miss a single moment.”

Turner’s first wife, Toni, died suddenly in 2017. The high school sweethearts had been married since 1972.

The Golden BachelorTheresa Nist says you ‘can’t prepare’ for watching your future husband date other women

The movie ‘The Golden Bachelor’ stars Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist.

Jim Wright

In addition to her commitment to throwing a bouquet on her big day, Nist has also been open about her desire for the other women who have dated Turner on the show to attend their nuptials.

During a For Your Consideration panel at The Times Center in New York in December, the former financial services professional confirmed that all the other contestants had been invited to the wedding, although she wasn’t sure who would be attending.

She also previously specifically mentioned the season’s runner-up, Leslie Fhima, as she told Joe Amabile and Serena Pitt at their Bachelor Happy Hour podcast, “I would invite Leslie. I don’t know if she would come.”

Nist said Fhima, 64, was one of her closest friends in the house during their time on the show.

“I cooked her dinner, she taught me how to exercise,” said Nist Amabile, 37, and Pitt, 26. “We sat and talked a lot. We cried together the whole time. So it’s not fun for that to happen to any other human being. I didn’t like that. And in that same vein, I was really good friends with Faith [Martin], so I would say the people I was closest to in the house were Faith and Leslie. How does that happen?”

Gerry Turner proposed to Theresa Nist in ‘The Golden Bachelor’.

John Fleenor/ABC via Getty

She also listed Edith Aguirre, Pamela Burns, Peggy Dercole, Ellen Goltzer, Renee Halverson-Wright, Sandra Mason and Sylvia Robledo as other ladies she would want there on her big day.

Turner added Anna Zalk to the list, as Nist said, “I talk to Anna all the time.”

Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

Golden wedding will air Thursday, January 4 at 8:00 PM ET on ABC.

Categories: Trends
Source: HIS Education