How Many ‘Bachelor’ Couples Are Still Together?

Fans of “The Bachelor” will learn whether Zach Shallcross popped the question to Gabi Elnicki or Kaity Biggar on Monday night’s Season 27 finale.

But even if he gets an eager “yes” in response to his proposal to either woman, it’ll take a lot longer for fans to know if that really means marriage for Shallcross—or if it even means a long engagement.

The truth is, despite the love-match premise of the reality TV staple, true love is truly hard to find on “The Bachelor.” While other regions of Bachelor Nation, including “The Bachelorette” and “Bachelor in Paradise,” have produced a long list of lasting relationships, the same can’t be said of the flagship part of the franchise.

So just how many “Bachelor” couples are still together today?

Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici

While Shallcross vowed (and then failed) to stay chaste during his recent Fantasy Suite dates, Season 17’s leading man, self-proclaimed “born-again virgin” Sean Lowe, was the OG to make that pledge and stick to it.

And shortly after resisting temptation, Lowe professed his love for his final-rose recipient, contestant Catherine Giudici, and proposed to her.

The two swapped vows in a live television ceremony on January 26, 2014, kicking off a life together filled with children (sons Samuel, 6, and Isaiah, 4, and daughter Mia, 3) and filled with more reality TV shows (including “Celebrity Wife Swap,” “Marriage Boot Camp,” “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” and “Worst Cooks in America,” just to name a few).

Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney

While Jason Mesnick met his now wife, Molly Malaney, during Season 13 of “The Bachelor,” their love story didn’t follow the same simple finale-episode proposal formula that worked out for the Lowes.

In fact, Mesnick actually proposed to Malaney’s fellow finalist, Melissa Rycroft, who agreed to be his bride. But that engagement was short-lived. When the post-finale “After the Final Rose” special aired, Mesnick revealed that he couldn’t stop thinking about the runner-up, so he broke up with a devastated Rycroft on the spot and told Malaney that she was the person he wanted to spend the rest of his life with.

The pair were married on February 27, 2010, and their ceremony aired as a two-hour “Bachelor” special less than a month later.

“Where do I start Mrs. Mesnick,” the groom wrote in an Instagram post he shared on their wedding day. “Let me apologize publicly again for putting you through the Bachelor🌹 mess that I created. With that being said… it built an incredible, unique, foundation for us to build our family – showing that we can make it through anything.”

They share a daughter together, 10-year-old Riley.

Arie Luyendyk Jr. and Lauren Burnham

Mesnick went down in Bachelor Nation history as an example of how-not-to-end-a-season with his fiancée switcheroo, and just nine seasons later, racer Arie Luyendyk Jr. followed in Mesnick’s footsteps.

Luyendyk proposed finalist Becca Kufrin, but before the Season 22 finale was over, cameras caught him breaking Kufrin’s heart by telling her he couldn’t marry her when it was runner-up Lauren Burnham who he really wanted to build a future with.

On “After the Final Rose,” he got down on one knee again, and this time, it was Burnham who said, “Definitely!”

Luyendyk and Burnham were married January 12, 2019, and have three children together, Alessi, 3, and 1-year-old twins, Sienna and Lux.

Matt James and Rachael Kirkconnell

Season 25 of “The Bachelor” didn’t end in a proposal at all, and there certainly hasn’t been a marriage since. But despite a bumpy road to romance, Matt James is currently dating the woman who got his final rose.

Still, there was a breakup in between the televised relationship and the off-screen one for James and Rachael Kirkconnell.

Even though James wasn’t ready to make a life-long commitment, he picked Kirkconnell to be his partner at the end of the season. However a scandal from Kirkconnell’s past surfaced during the season, in which she was photographed wearing antebellum fashions at a plantation-themed ball. It left James rethinking things on “After the Final Rose.”

He told Kirckconnell she had “work to do” regarding her problematic past behavior, and he added, “That’s why we can’t be in a relationship.”

But weeks later, when he decided she’d done the work, they reconciled and remain together.