Reality television star Jason Mesnick, 33, and fiancee Molly Malaney are scheduled to appear at Formal Affair: A Bridal and Event Expo on Sunday, Feb. 21.
Mr. Mesnick and Ms. Malaney are planning their own wedding, which will air on ABC television on March 8.
“We’re going to host and mingle as we’re going through this whole wedding experience with everyone else,” Mr. Mesnick said of the appearance at Formal Affair, which is sponsored by the Times Free Press.
Expanding his search for love to the national airwaves, Mr. Mesnick indicated, was a sign of his adventurous spirit. In the early stages of divorce and yearning for something “new and exciting,” he applied to be on both ABC’s “The Bachelor” and the CBS reality series “Survivor.”
“I think (the kind of people who go on reality TV) are the types of people who will pick up a backpack and go travel around the world looking for a new experience,” he said. “If you don’t open yourself up to new things, you’re kind of closing yourself off the world.”