Happily ever after — in Greece! Former Bachelorette contestant Grant KempPropose to your girlfriend Chloe MetcalfeThe most romantic way you can.
“I figured Santorini would be the best spot [to propose],” Kemp, 34, exclusively told Us WeeklyFriday, September 9, was a day to reflect on the planning and execution of the August 30, proposal. “I chose it to take place during sunset and got a photographer set up.”
The former reality star shared that the couple will be getting married in fall 2023. He also shared the details of the engagement ring, which is a 3.25 carat French Pave setting with a 3.00 carat round cut center stone — the likes of which Metcalfe proudly showed off in photos included here.
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“I knew when we started dating that she was the one – I just needed to find the best time to ask her to marry me,” Kemp continued to Us. “She had a lot of tears in her eyes but at the same time, had a huge smile on her face.”
The pair met in April while Metcalfe was working on one of Kemp’s friend’s music video shoots.
“So [Chloe] sent me the flyer that he had made to do this video shoot, to invite people and just said ‘For Taylor’s video shoot,’ and said nothing else,” the musician recalled to PeopleFriday. “The fact that we had been watching each other’s stories and we had mutual friends … I had a feeling that she had typed up a paragraph to slide into my DMs and say ‘Hi,’ but then panicked and just said, ‘For Taylor’s video shoot.’”
He added: “I called her out about it, like, a month into our relationship and she totally admitted that that was one hundred percent true, and that she just didn’t know how to slide into my DMs. So, she just sent the flyer so that she could meet me, which I thought was actually adorable.”
After appearing on Bachelor Nation’s contestant show, Kemp became a well-known Bachelor Nation member. JoJo Fletcher’s season of The BacheloretteThe show aired in 2016. Fletcher, 31 years old, eliminated Kemp in week five and settled on her husband. Jordan RodgersShe married her husband, in May.
Kemp continued to join Bachelor in ParadiseFor its third season, 2016, finding love with Lace Morris. In the finale episode, he proposed to Morris, 32. They ended their engagement in November 2016, after two months.
“After she left [my place] to move back to Colorado … there was no communication at all,” the former ABC personality told UseInterview with her May 2021. “I didn’t have any ill feelings towards her. It just wasn’t gonna work.”
He added at the time: “[Bachelor in Paradise is]I consider this a closed chapter in my own life, as I am now a musician. And that’s my main focus.”
