Trista Nicole Sutter (née Rehn) was a contestant on the 1st season of The Bachelor. She was the runner-up. She was later chosen as the bachelorette for the 1st season of The Bachelorette.
Trista and Ryan were married on December 6, 2003. They were paid $1 million by ABC for giving the network the right to televise their wedding ceremony, which was broadcast as the finale of a three-episode special called Trista & Ryan's Wedding. The miniseries, filmed at "The Lodge" luxury resort in Rancho Mirage, California, drew over 26 million viewers, making it one of the most-widely viewed episodes in the history of reality television.
They now live in Eagle County, Colorado. Ryan is a firefighter in Vail, Colorado. Trista attended Indiana University where she belonged to the Alpha Mu chapter of Alpha Chi Omega. Their son, Maxwell Alston, was born in July 2007, and their daughter, Blakesley Grace, was born in April 2009.