Here's How the First Two-Lead Rose Ceremony on 'The Bachelorette' Worked

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The Bachelorette's two-lead season has finally been answered. On Monday's episode of the ABC series, leading ladies Gabby Windey and Rachel Recchia hosted their first rose ceremony.Since the franchise's first-ever two-lead season was announced, fans wondered who would pick which guys stayed in the house.

Would Rachel and Gabby hand out joint roses? Could guys get two roses a week, one from each lady? Would the men have the option to reject one woman's rose in favor of the other's?Well, ahead of the season's inaugural rose ceremony, host Jesse Palmer told the men, «Rachel and Gabby, they’ve both informed me that the roses they hand out tonight, they’re coming from both women.

It means that both Gabby and Rachel, they want you around.»Gabby reiterated Jesse's statement, telling the guys, «Receiving a rose tonight means that both Rachel and I both would like to invite you into next week.»With that, Gabby and Rachel, standing on either side of a rose-filled table, alternated in calling guys' names, and all the men accepted the rose they were offered.Going forward, though, things are going to be different.

In the season preview, viewers were shown a totally different rose ceremony setup, with Gabby and Rachel standing on opposite sides of the room, with their own table of roses next to them.In the preview, as Rachel offered several men a rose, they each turned her down, telling her that they were there for Gabby.«It seems cruel for both of us to be put in this place together,» Rachel says in the preview. «I don’t know how I’m supposed to fall in love when no one gives a s**t about me.