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‘The Bold Type’s’ Katie Stevens Shared The Details Behind Her Super Romantic Engagement & Nothing Will Ever Top This

Katie Stevens, star of Freeformā€™s The Bold Type, appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers and made everyone watching extremely jealous when Meyers asked her about her recent engagement.

Katieā€™s fiancĆ©Ā is Paul DiGiovanni, the guitarist of band Boys Like Girls, and the two have been together for four and a half years. It seems like theyĀ are romantics at heart: PaulĀ had written KatieĀ love letters three years ago that he told her to open at certain times over the course of their relationship, and KatieĀ also told Seth Meyers that sheā€™d been hinting at asking him to marry her for some time now.

ā€œHe used to say things like, ā€˜Iā€™m gonna marry you somedayā€™ and Iā€™d say, ā€˜Youā€™re gonna marry me on Sunday?ā€™ā€ sheĀ said, pretending to mishear. So when the couple took a vacation to the Alps in Switzerland (which is enough to make me envy them already), Paul asked her what day it was.

ā€œAnd it was Sunday,ā€ Katie said. Do you have butterflies in your stomach yet? Because I sure do.

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Get ready for the kicker, though: remember how I said PaulĀ wrote KatieĀ letters?

ā€œOne letter said, ā€˜Do not open until I say so,ā€™ā€ KatieĀ said on Late Night. ā€œSo he pulled it out at the lake and I opened it and it said, ā€˜Katie, marry me?ā€™ā€

I canā€™t get over how romantic this is. This means PaulĀ knew that he wanted to marry KatieĀ for literally three years, and also trusted her not to open it too soon. So, he technically proposed to her three years ago. Thatā€™s just about the sweetest thing Iā€™ve ever heard.

Congrats to the happy couple!

Erica Kam is the Life Editor at Her Campus. She oversees the life, career, and news verticals on the site, including academics, experience, high school, money, work, and Her20s coverage. Over her six years at Her Campus, Erica has served in various editorial roles on the national team, including as the previous Culture Editor and as an editorial intern. She has also interned at Bustle Digital Group, where she covered entertainment news for Bustle and Elite Daily. She graduated in 2021 with a bachelorā€™s degree in English and creative writing from Barnard College, where she was the senior editor of Columbia and Barnardā€™s Her Campus chapter and a deputy copy editor for The Columbia Spectator. When she's not writing or editing, you can find her dissecting K-pop music videos for easter eggs and rereading Jane Austen novels. She also loves exploring her home, the best city in the world ā€” and if you think that's not NYC, she's willing to fight you on it.