Love Is Blind's Giannina Gibelli and Blake Horstmann get engaged seven months after welcoming first child
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Love Is Blind #1 alum Giannina Milady Gibelli and The Bachelorette #14 alum Blake Horstmann announced their engagement on Wednesday - nearly eight months after welcoming their first child, son Heath Orion Horstmann.
The reality TV couple shared a joint Instagram announcement tagging the jewelry company Brilliant Earth with the caption: 'So I can kiss you anytime I want.'
The 35-year-old Colorado DJ popped the question to the Venezuelan 31-year-old with a 4.87-carat oval lab-grown diamond ring featuring an 18-karat yellow gold 'Luxe Versailles' shank, but she said yes before the box was open.
'When she did finally see [the ring], she was breathless and so happy, so that felt really amazing,' Blake gushed to People.
'We are over the moon and we can't wait to be married in front of our loved ones.'
Giannina added that their 'love story has been everything I've always dreamt it would be and more.'
Love Is Blind #1 alum Giannina Milady Gibelli and The Bachelorette #14 alum Blake Horstmann announced their engagement on Wednesday - nearly eight months after welcoming their first child, son Heath Orion Horstmann (pictured November 11)
'As soon as I met Blake, I knew he was my soulmate and I know the universe was always leading me to him,' Gibelli continued.
'Being together forever and creating our family is literally the joy of my life.'
They received congratulatory comments from The Bachelor #19 alum Ashley Iaconetti Haibon, The Bachelorette #17 alum Justin Glaze, The Bachelor #25 alums Serena Pitt and Abigail Heringer, Love Is Blind #1 alum Jessica Batten McGrath, and Bachelor in Paradise bartender Wells Adams.
And while Giannina did not exactly go ring shopping with Blake, she told E! News in July 2022 that she was already 'not uncomfortable talking about being engaged to him or just spending the rest of my life with them.'
The bride and groom-to-be - who moved in together in November 2022 - just returned from a romantic babymoon trip to Paris.
In June, Horstmann told the Almost Famous Podcast that they were taking their time to get betrothed, because they wanted to 'make Heath a priority.'
'It was like, now, she's not my girlfriend or whatever. She's the mother of my child,' the I Had Some Help remixer explained.
'So, I look at her through a different lens now, and that happened pretty quick, too.'
The reality TV couple shared a joint Instagram announcement tagging the jewelry company Brilliant Earth with the caption: 'So I can kiss you anytime I want'
The 35-year-old Colorado DJ popped the question to the Venezuelan 31-year-old with a 4.87-carat oval lab-grown diamond ring, but she said yes before the box was open
![Blake gushed to People: 'When she did finally see [the ring], she was breathless and so happy, so that felt really amazing. We are over the moon and we can't wait to be married in front of our loved ones'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/11/20/17/92294269-14106437-Blake_gushed_to_People_When_she_did_finally_see_the_ring_she_was-a-34_1732124803000.jpg)
Blake gushed to People: 'When she did finally see [the ring], she was breathless and so happy, so that felt really amazing. We are over the moon and we can't wait to be married in front of our loved ones'
They received congratulatory comments from Ashley Iaconetti Haibon, Justin Glaze, Serena Pitt, Abigail Heringer, Jessica Batten McGrath, and Wells Adams
And while Giannina did not exactly go ring shopping with Horstmann, she told E! News in July 2022 that she was already 'not uncomfortable talking about being engaged to him or just spending the rest of my life with them' (pictured October 30)
The bride and groom-to-be - who moved in together in November 2022 - just returned from a romantic babymoon trip to Paris (pictured November 11)
In June, the I Had Some Help remixer told the Almost Famous Podcast that they were taking their time to get betrothed, because they wanted to 'make Heath a priority' (pictured October 10)
Audiences watched as Blake fell in love with Gibelli in November 2021 and asked her to be his girlfriend in Spanish while appearing on Paramount+ Jersey Shore spin-off, All Star Shore
It was less than a year after the Rellery Jewelry collaborator was publicly humiliated by being rejected at the wedding altar by her on/off fiancé Damian Powers on the first season of Netflix's dating competition Love Is Blind
And in 2018, Blake sobbed after being publicly rejected by Becca Kurfin (R) as runner-up on the 14th season of ABC's dating competition The Bachelorette
Audiences watched as Blake fell in love with Gibelli in November 2021 and asked her to be his girlfriend in Spanish while appearing on Paramount+ Jersey Shore spin-off, All Star Shore.
It was less than a year after the Rellery Jewelry collaborator was publicly humiliated by being rejected at the wedding altar by her on/off fiancé Damian Powers on the first season of Netflix's dating competition Love Is Blind.
And in 2018, Blake sobbed after being publicly rejected by Becca Kurfin as runner-up on the 14th season of ABC's dating competition The Bachelorette.
Horstmann then vied for the heart of Kristina Schulman on the sixth season of ABC's dating competition Bachelor in Paradise, but he quit during week five.
Giannina - who boasts 2.3M social media followers - is every bit the influencer with paid partnerships for brands like Vince Camuto, Dove, Bali Bras, Dr. Brown's, Harbor, Bellini, T-Mobile, Sun Home Saunas, Target, Saint James Iced Tea, and Juicy Couture.
