Farmer Wants a Wife season 4 had its fair share of drama — but did the final three couples walk into the sunset?
Viewers watched throughout season 4 of the Fox reality series as farmers Sean Cavanaugh, Braden Pridemore and Brett Maverick each took a group of women home to see if they could find The One, sending one person home every episode before making their final choice.
Warning: Spoilers below for the season 4 finale of Farmer Wants a Wife.
While each farmer had their individual ups and downs as they navigated dates, conflicts and even family dynamics, the Tuesday, June 9, finale started out smoothly until Braden found himself in the hot seat when he had to break one woman’s heart — and she took it harder than expected.
When Braden met up with Brittany Graham to reveal that he was ultimately choosing Casey Riemar, the 27-year-old medical aesthetician had a hard time accepting the news, accusing Braden of leading her on and lying about his feelings before ultimately breaking down and running away.
“With this whole process, sending girls home is the absolute worst part about it. I absolutely hated it, even when I had a clear mind,” Braden exclusively told Us Weekly about the fallout. “And going into the finale, I truly did have a clear mind, and I knew it was Casey, and I knew where my heart was leading me. But it’s still hard, because in the moment, you don’t want to hurt somebody. And, Brittany went into that very confident, I think, that I was going to pick her. I didn’t mean to give that impression.”
Despite his empathy, Braden insisted that he has a “clear conscience” about the ordeal.
“[I was] completely honest through this whole process. I never said anything to any of the girls that wasn’t true,” he explained. “And that’s the hard thing, because no matter what, rejection is hard, and getting sent home is probably horrible.”
Sean, Braden and Brett all ultimately followed their hearts in the end — see who they picked and where the couples stand now:
Sean Cavanaugh and Emily Jane
Status: Still together!
After a season of accusations that they had already chosen each other before the final two, Sean and Emily walked off into the sunset together. While speaking to Us, the couple clarified that it wasn’t until their solo date together that they realized their relationship could become something real.
“We just had such a great time, and it was just amazing beyond expectation,” Emily told Us, calling it a “turning point” in their romance. Sean agreed, adding the alone time gave them “plenty of time to hang out and really talk to each other and get to know one another.”
However, he noted that while the solo date made it “more than clear” where he was heading for viewers, he knew he had a “process to finish” in the show and was determined to give everyone a “fair chance” before ultimately following his heart.
These days, Sean and Emily are happily in love and even living together. Right after the show wrapped, Sean took Emily to Santa Barbara for a “fun vacation” away from cameras, the place where they say they “truly fell in love.” Then they had Thanksgiving together at his parents’ house in Newport Beach, California.
While Emily eventually flew back home to Florida, the twosome called each other “every single day” — one time spending 15 hours chatting! — before Sean packed up his truck and drove across the country to see her.
“We were like, ‘OK, our goal is for the rest of our lives, we never want to spend three weeks apart.’ So we packed up his truck, and he drove across the country and into my place,” Emily told Us. “So we do live together. We’ve been living together.”
The pair have since made their way back to California, where Sean said they’re “working at the restaurant, working on the farm” and “getting a whole bunch of new farm animals.”
There’s no official engagement yet, but Emily told Us to “stay tuned.”
“There’s been talk. Nothing’s happened yet. I feel like everybody’s wondering,” she said with a laugh. “Nothing has happened yet. You guys will be just as surprised as I will. We’re waiting.”
Braden Pridemore and Casey Riemer
Status: Still together!
Braden confessed to Us that he had his eyes on Casey from the very first day they met in the barn, a secret he told the wardrobe department right off the bat.
“Casey was nothing but just real and authentic, and the whole time was just never trying to impress me. I mean, she couldn’t care less, like, about impressing me,” he said with a laugh. “At times I joked, I was like, ‘Oh, she doesn’t even care!’ … And that really attracted me, because she was just so true to herself. So I liked Casey pretty quickly.”
Braden confessed he had trouble sending women home and would often get overly focused on not hurting anyone’s feelings, but with Casey, there was “never” an option of saying goodbye.
“You get caught up thinking more about who you’re sending home rather than who’s actually there, as crazy as that sounds,” he explained. “Later in the season, I’m telling myself, ‘Oh man, I’m gonna have a hard decision,’ and then I just had a moment where I was like, ‘You’re kind of an idiot. It’s always been Casey!’ I’ve just been so drawn to her this whole entire season.”
For Casey, realizing Braden was The One took a little bit longer. “I think when I really realized I was falling for him was after the family episode,” she said, referring to the season’s penultimate episode. “Our families got along so well, and it was just truly so much fun that day. And then once the families both left, we got to have our final day, just getting to spend more time with him, talk about what the future might look like for us. I truly saw myself being with him from that moment on.”
While Braden and Casey clearly had a connection throughout the season, they seemingly faced a bump in the road when it came to the discussion of Casey moving to Illinois. Although Casey “never said” she wouldn’t relocate, she expressed her apprehension about being even farther away from her family.
“A concern of mine was being, or living so far away from my family. I currently live three hours from them. I don’t live close right now, I think it was just scary knowing it would be seven hours away from Nashville,” she shared.
In the end, Braden said the honest conversation made their feelings grow “even stronger.”
“It was like, ‘Wow, our conflict resolution could be strong,’” he said. “It was just two of us being honest. She was like, ‘Hey, this is my concern, being this far away from my family.’ I’m like, ‘Well, this is my concern,’ and I don’t want me living here to change our connection.’ …We were just both honest with each other and upfront with our intentions.”
Now, Casey and Braden have both made the trip from Tennessee to Illinois “multiple times,” and the concerns about distance are getting “less and less.”
“The longest we’ve gone has been, like, two and a half weeks without seeing each other, so lots of traveling; we’ve been making it work, so it’s been a lot of fun,” Casey said with a smile.
As for taking things to the next level — like a potential engagement — Braden said there have been “conversations,” but the couple are taking it day by day.
“Right now our focus is just being a normal couple and actually being able to go out and have fun and just you know continue what we’re doing,” he said. “I’ll say we’ve had a few conversations, but that’s something that’s going to have to be down the line. … We’re really making it work, [and] I can honestly say there hasn’t been any time where it’s felt really difficult to not see each other. We’re two people that need some space, but we also need to be around each other quite a bit. We’ve just been really making it work, and it’s gone so smoothly.”
Casey agreed. “It’s been so easy,” she added.
Brett Maverick and Quinn Guterman
Status: Still together!
While Brett got along well with all the girls on his farm, he told Us that after sitting back and taking time to “read” the room, he figured out “which ones I was more drawn to based on their personalities, the way they carry themselves, the things they said — there are a few factors there.”
Brett explained that, like Braden, he got wrapped up in who was going home but eventually realized he needed to focus on who he wanted to stay. Ultimately, his mind went to the mixer in Maryland and how he formed a connection with Quinn. “That’s kind of when I realized that Quinn was the head of the pack.”
Quinn, for her part, also noted Maryland as a turning point.
“When we went on our trip to Maryland to the horse races, I missed him, and so I realized when I wasn’t around him, I wanted to be around him,” she shared, adding that she was surprised at how much she “cared” when a late-game woman named Sophia was added to the mix by Brett’s parents.
Quinn told Us, “Honestly, just the way once we got back and he was interacting with us as a whole, I kind of knew he’s somebody I want to get to know, and then just each conversation that went on, and really less about the conversations he and I had, it was more just little interactions, whether that was off camera, in between stuff, on camera, we just kind of found our way of just little sarcastic things here and there, so what I would look for normally was happening even in a group, and I think he got to see my side with the girls, and how I would be around my friends normally, because that’s kind of how we all were, and so we just opened up and got close fast.”
As for where they stand now, Quinn is still in Idaho while Brett is living on the farm in Tennessee, but the pair are making things work.
“I wouldn’t say like moving is out of the cards, but we’re just taking it day by day,” Quinn told Us. “He’s out here more than not, and we just hang out, and I think for us it’s like …. we have fun doing nothing, and we can really do anything, and we find the fun in it, and I know we have fun doing other things too, but if we can do nothing and still enjoy.”
Brett noted that Quinn is considering moving in with finalist Hannah in Florida.
“It’s a little closer to him,” Quinn replied. “Yeah, I’ve been thinking about going back to school for nursing. Hannah and I love each other, we miss each other, and I’d still be closer to Brett, but it’s not making that full jump and not having anybody else in Tennessee other than him. And we’re both pretty independent, but we love being around each other, so it’s finding a happy medium.”
Farmer Wants a Wife airs on Fox and is available to stream next day on Hulu.
