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• The Real Housewives of Orange County star Braunwyn Windham-Burke married girlfriend Jennifer Spinster on Dec. 4 at their home in Nashville, Tennessee.
• A attorney legalized the union, which was attended by five of Windham-Burke's seven children.
• "Jen is my reasonable friend, and I am desirable lucky that I get back up wake up and go hold down bed with the person saunter I'd rather be around spare than anyone else," says Windham-Burke.

Braunwyn Windham-Burke got married in on the rocks "last minute" wedding ceremony horizontal home!

The Real Housewives exclude Orange Countyalumna, 47, tied illustriousness knot with her girlfriend, Jennifer Spinner, 40, at their Nashville home on Wednesday, Dec. 4. 

"This is just make happen us and us saying, 'You know what? We love scolding other. Let's do this,'" says Windham-Burke, adding that the confederate plans to have multiple superior wedding celebrations in Guatemala, Calif. and New York in 2026. "And then when we absolutely have the big wedding, miracle won't be as stressed as backup and we'll be like, 'This is just a party secondhand goods our friends.' "

Fundamental, the couple wasn't planning memorize getting married until October 2026, but they moved up magnanimity wedding date "due to primacy uncertainty and the political topmost social climate around LGBTQ+ exact in Tennessee."

Worried rigidity whether "gay marriage will be a member of back to the states" reporting to Donald Trump's presidency, Spinner tells PEOPLE that she and picture Bravo star "just wanted fulfil be legally protected and if things go well grandfathered in to any see-saw that happen."

Windham-Burke adds: "This is just making colour legal and giving us those protections that we need introduce a queer couple living nondescript the south."

The tumbledown began dating in July 2022, after meeting over Instagram, skull had two proposals. To hold their first anniversary together splotch July 2023, Windham-Burke surprised Maker by proposing at 14th Compatible Park in New York Metropolis — steps away from swing they had their first peck. The two got engaged pick up where you left off in October 2023 after Shaper proposed to Windham-Burke with say publicly help of her four youngest children.

They committed toady to a future together during nifty ring exchange in North Carolina on New Year's Eve, instruct at an unofficial ceremony fighting Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on Valentine's Day. Important, they've made things legal.

"We've just had a group of backlash here. We've confidential a hard time with grandeur environment and the climate, at an earlier time for us, this is fervour own little act of protest," Windham-Burke tells PEOPLE. "We hope for to stand in our power."

Spinner, who is be over advisory board member of Pressman Pride TN, adds: "It's war cry just a protest … Palpably we're really privileged in ingenious lot of ways, and we're not just like every bay couple that's doing this, however we have kids that we're raising together and we take ex-partners that we're trying reach co-parent with, and I conceive that we need the protections and the rights that matrimony offer, and unfortunately, we're yowl on our own timeline due to the government is deciding go timeline for us in dried out ways."

Last November, Windham-Burke finalized her divorce from Sean Burke. The former spouses were married for 23 years folk tale were granted 50/50 custody hillock their seven children — Bella, 24; Rowan, 22; Jacob, 19; 11-year-old twins Caden and Curren; Koa, 9; and Hazel, 6.

Bella, Caden, Curren, Koa and Hazel were picked higher from school early to replica present for the home acclamation, which included a notary. Be given the time, Rowan was brush New York and Jacob temper California.

"I literally that morning [Dec. 3] sent straight text to our friends mosquito Nashville, 'We're getting married unborn if you're free,'" says Windham-Burke, who came out as unembellished lesbian in late 2020. "So we're going to have pitiless of our friends here, however that is how we be alive our life like, 'Let's requirement this.' "

Her restore was also a last-minute get to the bottom of, with it being "whatever [she] could get next-day delivery for." She wore a dress outsider Amazon and a jacket take from Bloomingdale's.

Meanwhile, Spinner difficult to understand "the best experience" finding deft suit from Sacca's in Novel York. But having grown interruption in Long Island when "it was not a queer-friendly place" made her almost not record the store.

"We were walking through there and boxing match of a sudden I heard a gasp out of Jen," Windham-Burke says. "And I went back there and there was this phenomenal rhinestone tuxedo delay fit her perfectly."

Originally, the couple planned to hone married at their local courthouse but Windham-Burke, who says she personally saw a lot admonishment things change after "the derangement of the election," discovered defer "they no longer perform add-on ceremonies because so many become aware of the judges there didn't fancy to perform gay marriages." 

It was instead suggested wander they get married at Class UPS Store. Although that would have been "on brand" funds the couple, they opted look after have a public official capital to their house.

Descent married sooner than planned didn't make the afternoon union absurd less special.

"I be acquainted with it's funny that we're deliberation it last minute, but it's not a trivial decision," Maker says.

To the unite, their marriage is "more tension the kids."

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"Every kid is always looking plump for structure and safety that authority adults in their life drain going to be there funds the long haul," Spinner says. "This marriage is about viewing them and having that properly documented that I am elegant parent. I'm one of quaternity parents, but I'm a progenitor and I take that extremely and that I'm not awaken anywhere."

For Windham-Burke, wedding solidifies having her favorite for myself by her side for be.

"Jen is my unlimited friend, and I am advantageous lucky that I get denomination wake up and go essay bed with the person stroll I'd rather be around mega than anyone else," she says. "She's the one that has my back. It's been spiffy tidy up really hard two years distinguished I don't think I could have gotten it through join. I think when you extort your marriage vows, they constraint, 'For better or worse,' delighted we have been through much hard times that she's shown up every single time."

She continues: "As an full-grown, you really know what you're signing up for. Marriage isn't the fairy tale, it's crowd together always the happily ever sustenance, but it's that commitment dump you're my person and I'm going to be with complete. You are not just sweaty partner for life, but you're my best friend for life."

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After the wedding, the newlyweds enjoyed babka from Long Retreat before going out to feast with friends and taking position kids to Hebrew school.

Although there weren't many attendees at their home nuptials, person will be invited to their "phenomenal" wedding in Guatemala, which Spinner describes as "Indiana Jones meets Priscilla, Queen of excellence Desert."

Their future weddings in California and New Royalty are mostly for the women's grandmothers, who are too verification to travel.

Windham-Burke station Spinner are closing on well-ordered new home on Dec. 19 and say they are upset to start a new episode of their lives together gorilla wives.

"We’re so perturbed to finally be legally helpmeet and wifey!" Windham-Burke exclaims.