The Bold and the Beautiful Nuptials: Why Hope and Liam's wedding is a 'tribute to their history'

The big day has arrived on The Bold and the Beautiful, and Hope and Liam are ready to walk down a living room aisle and get married again. This is the fourth time the couple has wed, but this time the two actors who portray the star-crossed pair think they'll get it right.

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Hope and Liam's family will be whole again | Image: JPI

When Hope (Annika Noelle) and Liam (Scott Clifton) divorced in 2023, Hope was free to sow her proverbial wild oats. In fact, Hope's desire to do just that was the reason for the split. She couldn't contain her attraction to Thomas Forrester (Matthew Atkinson) any longer and kissed him in front of the Roman Colosseum, not knowing that Liam was witnessing the whole scene.

When she returned home and Liam revealed what he had seen, their marriage was over and Hope was free to be with Thomas. However, Thomas wanted too much too soon. After wearing his engagement ring around her neck for a few months, Thomas finally realized he was better off leaving town, which left Hope open for another romance.

Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor) and Hope seemed ill-conceived from the start, and thankfully, The Bold and the Beautiful realized that and broke off that engagement soon after it began. Carter knew that Hope's heart was with Liam, especially after she thought he was dying and she'd lose him. With Liam now a picture of health, it's time to walk down the aisle again.

Fourth time's the charm for Hope and Liam

Liam and Hope marry again on The Bold and the Beautiful | Image: JPI

One thing that Scott Clifton did not want was a redux of the same Hope/Liam/Steffy triangle that had been playing out for well over a decade.

"I was worried that it was going to look like, 'The minute we find out Liam’s okay, he’s going to get married to Hope, and it’s going to be the same thing, and it’s going to look like there was no lesson learned,'" Clifton told TV Insider. "But then the way it was handled, it really felt like Liam and Hope were getting married in a way that was a tribute to their history, rather than getting married and having to sweep their history under the rug."

Annika Noelle has high hopes (no pun intended) that Hope and Liam have both matured enough to get it right this time.

"She’s been engaged twice since she and Liam got divorced, not to mention her [fashion] line has faced a lot of adversity, as well as within her family life, and she’s really seeking some stability in her life," Noelle said. "And I think with this health scare, she and Liam have both reevaluated a lot of things and what they meant to each other in their lives, and almost losing him kind of woke Hope up a little bit. Now she believes that they have done enough growing in this time apart from each other to where she feels like, ‘OK, as two adults, we can look at each other and make these promises and hopefully stick to them.'"