Bachelor in ParadiseStar Blake Horstmann Engaged toLove Is BlindAlum Giannina Gibelli: 'Over the Moon!' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Giannina Gibelli and Blake Horstmann.Photo:David Prades/@davidpradesphoto

David Prades/@davidpradesphoto

Blake HorstmannandGiannina Gibelliare engaged!

“I had been looking for the perfect ring for over a year,” Horstmann says. “I had an idea of what she wanted — cut, clarity, etc. — but I didn’t want to go and pick out a ring with her. I really wanted the ring to be a complete surprise.”

Giannina Gibelli gets emotional during Blake Horstmann’s proposal.David Prades/@davidpradesphoto

“When she did finally see [the ring], she was breathless and so happy, so that felt really amazing,” Horstmann recalls, adding, “We are over the moon and we can’t wait to be married in front of our loved ones.”

Giannina Gibelli shows off her Brilliant Earth engagement ring.David Prades/@davidpradesphoto

Gibelli describes the engagement as “the best feeling in the world.”

“Our love story has been everything I’ve always dreamt it would be and more," she tells PEOPLE. “As soon as I met Blake, I knew he was my soulmate and I know the universe was always leading me to him. Being together forever and creating our family is literally the joy of my life.”

Giannina Gibelli and Blake Horstmann hug after getting engaged.David Prades/@davidpradesphoto

“I’m definitely not uncomfortable talking about being engaged to him or just spending the rest of my life with him,” she toldE! News. “I think the feeling’s mutual, and I would be the happiest person in the entire world, but no rush.”

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Giannina Gibelli and Blake Horstmann embrace after getting engaged.David Prades/@davidpradesphoto

She added, “Everything has its own time and needs to develop naturally, but honestly, I’m good. This is it. This is it for me.”

Months later, Gibelli shared onInstagramthat she had officiallymoved into Horstmann’s Colorado home. Alongside a series of loved-up photos of the couple in their cozy digs, she wrote, “Honey I’m homeeeeee (officially) 🤍.”

Giannina Gibelli and Blake Horstmann with their son Heath.David Prades/@davidpradesphoto

“No one was expecting it, but their reactions have been spectacular,” they told PEOPLE at the time.

Their son, named Heath Orion,made his arrivalon March 29. “His first breath took ours away 💙,” Gibelli wrote onInstagramas the couple shared the first photos of their newborn. “Everyone is home happy and healthy — his pregnancy and birth were a dream come true.”

“Our lives are brighter, fuller, and forever better,” she continued. “Thank you for all of the love and well wishes, Heath has so many people who love him 💫. We’re parents!”

Giannina Gibelli and Blake Horstmann pose together after their engagement.David Prades/@davidpradesphoto

“Grew up coming here and now I get to share it with my own little fam, what is life 🫶🏽,” Gibelli wrote of their time in the Spanish capital.

source: people.com