Seven months earlier than he proposed, Jon told E! that “her mom and my mom build a matter to of consistently” about after they had been going to secure engaged. “And I'm esteem, 'Are you able to fair let me be? Let me be! You'll know whenever you know.'”

Obvious satisfactory, the couple's respective fogeys had been on hand to gape Jon secure down on one knee.

“Needless to command I mentioned poke,” his fiancée captioned a conclude-up of the vivid diamond ring he taken aback her with, soliciting for her hand in a non-public dining room at Willoughby's on Park, Stephanie's favourite restaurant in Wyomissing, Pa.

Now not that they didn't secure “a bit of an adjustment duration” after they first moved in together in June 2023, Jon telling OK!, “Most of our arguments had been about our children no longer doing satisfactory around the home. I don’t secure to lie, I secure to protect it valid—existence isn’t consistently excellent.”

However it indubitably's loads nearer to balanced with Stephanie by his aspect. (To not mention, she cracked to ET, “I'm no longer transferring one thing else out of this home.” In the occasion that they smash up, she teased, “I already told him, 'The home is so huge, now we secure a fully furnished basement downstairs, with a bar. That it’s good to per chance per chance per chance fair live downstairs.'”)

They first hit it off at a mutual buddy's yard barbecue in August 2021 and Stephanie remembered being the significant to scoot into his DMs afterward. A number of days later, he invited her to join him fair then for a drink and she went straight from the gym, “sweaty, natural-having a undercover agent, curly hair, no makeup,” she recalled. “And he adored me, I believe.”

Stephanie even let folk think she used to be a chum of his daughter Hannah's on one occasion, lest they spill the romance beans upfront.

“It used to be straightforward satisfactory to fair pronounce I was an older college student,” she mentioned with a shrug. “He also respected my desires, 'location off it's loads, clearly.” Earlier than they met, she and Jon had spent “plenty of years invested in folk,” the extinct cosmetologist explained, “and I fair didn't know the set this could per chance drag.”

As it became out, it's going the total methodology to the altar.

And his children Hannah and Collin gave their heartfelt blessing, with Stephanie telling ET in December 2024 that Jon's son wrote her a plenty of message, telling his future stepmom that she's “the glue” in their family.

However whereas Jon's bride-to-be hadn't met his other six children in particular person amid his ongoing estrangement from them, he revealed in July 2024 that Stephanie had been eager with them and his ex-wife.

“I know that Steph has talked to Kate, and I know that Steph has talked to my other children,” he mentioned on The Domenick Nati Expose. “Lawful, esteem, through FaceTime and Hannah’s phone and stuff. Everything looks copacetic.”

Jon acknowledged that “it is going to furthermore fair be simpler for them to talk about with a third-occasion particular particular person that’s fully integrated into my existence.”

As for his ex-wife meeting Stephanie, he explained, “Kate sees this as a actually very long time-frame relationship and, you know, a wedding. Per chance she fair wished to grab the girl that’s influencing her younger folk.”

And Jon told ET closing December that every person in all his children, estranged or no longer, had been going to be invited to the marriage ceremony, noting, “The door is consistently birth here.”

Earlier than their dad says “I function” as soon as more, look all eight Gosselin children throughout the years: