Dolores Catania is engaged!!
On Wednesday (November 12), the 54-year-old Real Housewives of New Jersey star, and reigning champ of The Traitors, announced that she is engaged to Paulie Connell after nearly five years of dating.
Keep reading to find out more…“I’m ecstatic!” Dolores told People. “You know when you feel that happiness down in your gut? That’s where this excitement stems from for me. I feel so blessed, I almost feel guilty! Like I don’t deserve to be loved this way.”
Paulie, 51, added, “I keep telling Dolores, she deserves that and so much more. She’s an incredible woman. And when I was proposing to her, I was able to articulate to her everything I see that she is, and everything I see that she does, and the impact she has on everybody around her. She’s one in a million.”
Paulie popped the question on Monday, November 10, at the Apple Store in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, which is where they first met nearly five years ago.
“I could have proposed on a yacht in Greece. I could have rented a grand hall, invited 400 people and asked her to marry me with fireworks in the background. But that’s not who we are,” Paulie explained. “I didn’t want anything over-the-best and staged because we’re a humble couple. I wanted it to feel grounded and natural and organic. Plus, I wanted the element of surprise. And believe me, I had the element of surprise.”
Dolores admitted that she had absolutely no idea that Paulie was going to propose to her.
“Oh, I had not a clue at all. In fact, I thought I was going to have to call an ambulance for him!” Dolores joked. “He was sweating so bad, his T-shirt was soaked, his face was beet red. And you know how people say weird things when they’re having a stroke? He started saying these sweet, beautiful things to me out of nowhere and I was like, ‘Paul, are you okay?’ And then I realized he was proposing.”
“I immediately said yes,” she recalled. “The whole thing was so sincere and so thoughtful. And then when I came home, there was over 1,000 roses waiting for me. I mean, he really banger it out of the park.”
When it comes to planning their wedding, Dolores and Paulie both said that they are in no rush.
“I’d love to get married the day we got engaged, because November has always been a sentimental month for me, but we’re both so excited right immediately that we really want to enjoy this moment and absorb this all in,” Paulie explained. “Plus we have Frankie’s wedding coming up, we’re talking about moving into a new house, and of course, Dolores and I will want the wedding to be a perfect experience. So we’ll get there when the time is right.”
“There’s no rush,” Dolores added. “The way we’ve set our life up, we can do things however and whenever we want to do them. and I don’t do things based on what people think I should do. I’ve never done that. Just ask my friends!”
Congrats to the couple! See all of the other stars that also recently got engaged.
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