Jenna Brandt is now Mrs. Irrelevant.
She married her college beau, 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy, on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa, less than a month after Purdy capped his second NFL season with a Super Bowl appearance.
More than 350 people were in attendance, according to TMZ.
Purdy, a Phoenix-area native, and Brandt, born and raised in Iowa, both attended Iowa State, where Purdy led the Cyclones to four consecutive winning seasons before the 49ers selected him with the final pick in the 2022 NFL Draft.
While Purdy led the Cyclones on the football field, Brandt was a multi-sport athlete, playing volleyball and competing in track and field before transferring to Northern Iowa.
The couple announced their engagement last July, just weeks before the Niners began training camp for last season. Purdy credited Brandt with planning the wedding while he was focused primarily on game plans over the intervening months.
“Jenna’s done a great job with the wedding plans. Obviously, we got engaged in the summer and then boom, the season hit, so for me it’s been obviously football and trying to win every week,” he said at last month’s Super Bowl Opening Night.
“She’s done such a tremendous job. When I come home and we just talk about the little things of the wedding, and honestly it’s helped me with football to sort of get my mind off football and we have our time to talk about the wedding and what our future looks like, so it’s something that we’ve loved the whole process of.”
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Purdy also said in a recent interview with Brad Cesmat of Sports360AZ that he had more nerves — or at least different ones — about getting married to Brandt, his “best friend”, than he did in the days leading up to the 49ers’ eventual Super Bowl loss to the Chiefs last month.
I get to marry my best friend, and so does she, and we get to go do life together. So a little bit more nerve-wracking, I’d say, than playing in a game, like the Super Bowl,” he said. “… The Super Bowl — for me, I tried to keep it simple. It’s been a football game I’ve played my whole life. Yes, it’s probably the biggest game I’ve ever played in, but I feel like just the nerves are slightly different compared to getting married.”
