Bachelorette Alum Chase McNary Expecting First Baby with Wife Ellie: 'Baby McNary 2025'

Chase McNary is going to be a dad!

The Bachelorette alum, 35, who competed on JoJo Fletcher's season of the franchise and season 6 of Bachelor in Paradise, is expecting his first baby with wife Ellie White. The couple announced the happy news in a joint Instagram post on Sunday, Nov. 3, in a Reel that saw White and McNary wearing cowboy hats.

As McNary kissed White, a milliner who runs the designer hat brand, Mill & Habs, and turned her hat towards the camera, sonogram images could be seen tucked into the brim of the hat. "Baby McNary 2025," embossment on the hat read, alongside fresh flowers and the pictures.

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Several Bachelor Nation members voiced their congratulations in the comments, including Chris Bukowski, who competed on the 8th season of The Bachelorette. "Let’s goooooo. Congrats to you both!" he said.

"Congrats guys!! You’re going to be great parents 🫶🏼," Adam Gottschalk wrote, who originally competed on the 13th season of The Bachelorette and ended up meeting and marrying wife Raven Gates on season 4 of Bachelor in Paradise.

In July, McNary and White tied the knot at the Arapahoe Basin's mid-mountain lodge in Dillon, Colorado, telling PEOPLE all about the "super fun," yet romantic ceremony.

"We wanted to get married at the venue, so the mountaintop was kind of the most important part for us. We're going [to be] at 11,500 feet, so we're kind of just basing everything off of love reaching new heights," McNary said.

"It's kind of our theme for our wedding. So, 11,500 feet, love reaching new heights is kind of like our tagline on everything," he continued, "And then, not being a stiff formal wedding, because that's just not us. We're doing super lax, super fun, casual and also, just a full weekend with the people that we love."

As they looked beyond their wedding and reception, McNary and White's honeymoon plans weren't set in stone, but the pair were mulling over visiting places like Fiji and New Zealand to commemorate their milestone. However, at the end of the day, the twosome said they were most excited to continue growing together.

"I think that can apply to a lot of things. I think growth and our love, growth in our number of family members in our household, growth financially," White said. "We have a bunch of goals that we want to hit and we're both very, very driven individuals. So I think that this next chapter is growth."

As for McNary, he added: "I just want to continue to do better and better so that Ellie has a better and better life."