Actual Housewives of New York alum Kelly Bensimon is thrilled about her engagement to Scott Litner — which she completely didn’t see coming.
“We hopped on a ship and I used to be driving him round [my hometown] and he was like, ‘Go to your favourite spot,’” Bensimon, 55, completely tells Us Weekly. “Then he requested me to marry him. I [was in] a pink bikini … completely not ready. … It was very actual and I feel that there’s plenty of these weddings and proposals that are actually Instagrammable and exquisite … but it surely was simply very real.”
Whereas Litner, 54, received down on one knee in Lake Geneva, the twosome are planning on taking their engagement photographs in Montauk.
“We simply spent plenty of time there and we had a very nice time there final summer time. So I used to be like, ‘You recognize, that’s a very great place to do it with good folks and similar to good vibes,’” she explains. “Not like being a marriage photograph or an engagement photograph however a reminiscence of all of my mates. That’s actually the core of who I’m. It’s simply actually making these robust connections and persevering with them on.”
In terms of the precise wedding ceremony, Bensimon — who starred on The Actual Housewives of New York from seasons 2 by means of 4 — says the couple are within the midst of attempting to “determine” the main points.
“Scott needs to get married straight away. My youngest daughter’s like ‘Mother, it takes six months to have a costume made.’ I’m like, ‘What can we do?,’” she tells Us. “It’s simply enjoyable that [the kids] are very .”
The Bravo persona shares daughters Sea, 25, and Teddy, 23, with ex-husband Gilles Bensimon. The twosome have been married from 1997 to 2007.
The small print round their nuptials will not be set in stone however Bensimon and Litner do have one resolution set in stone: two separate ceremonies.
“I feel we’re going to do a really small wedding ceremony with simply my household and his household. After which we’re going to do an enormous get together with all of our mates. … I needed to do one thing that was form of completely different,” she says.
Apart from their engagement and wedding ceremony planning, Bensimon and Litner are taking one other huge step collectively — transferring in.
“We’re on the lookout for an condominium immediately,” Bensimon tells Us, including that Litner additionally has three sons from a earlier relationship as properly. “I imply we’ve received all these youngsters of various ages so it’s going to be enjoyable. I used to be pondering as a result of my oldest daughter is 25 so by the point she begins having youngsters, we’re going to have grandkids. It’s simply going to be like nonstop.”
