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Astrid Loch and Kevin Wendt, who met on last year’s season of Bachelor in Paradise, are engaged!

The two reality stars announced their engagement on Instagram on Tuesday (September 3), just hours before a new episode of the show is set to air.

“I could have sworn the world stood still in this moment. A moment I’ll never forget. Just you + me. @kevin.c.wendt you’ve taught me to love, learn and grow and I can’t believe you’ve chosen me to spend this crazy life with. Wonder if I’ll ever stop smiling? Probably not. In this together, forever. ♥️,” Astrid wrote about the moment when Kevin proposed on August 28.

Kevin added, “You’ll never walk alone again. From here on out, we run together. Astrid you are my family, babe. Forever.”

Astrid was previously a contestant on Nick Viall‘s season of The Bachelor in 2017 while Kevin was a contestant on The Bachelorette Canada and then appeared on The Bachelor: Winter Games. They both were then on Bachelor in Paradise in 2018.

The Bachelor Winter Games‘ Ashley Iaconetti and Kevin Wendt, the winning couple on the show, are explaining why they have split.

“It sounds a little harsh, but it’s just that lack of — there’s magic. We get along very well, it’s just there’s a little something missing and you can’t really pinpoint what it is. That’s just how I feel,” Ashley, 30, said on her Ben and Ashley I. Almost Famous Podcast with Ben Higgins.

Kevin added, “I feel like that’s normal and I feel like you get those connections all the time where if you take away our outside world and just put Ashley and me on an island together, we’d probably get along really well. And that’s what Vermont was.”

Kevin continued, “I’m very hard at giving up on things. And I’m not saying that we gave up on it … I’m saying I was still ready to come there again. And I know her birthday, I wanted to be there when I had to work and I was planning on coming out as of that week or she was going to come here. I knew we definitely had an uphill battle. I wasn’t 100 percent in yet, but I also knew I wanted to see her again.”

“But now that a few days have passed and we both kind of collected our thoughts and emotions and stuff, I know she made the right call and I know this is the way it should be,” he added. “I feel like I got friend-zoned. Ashley, you friend-zoned me…But I’m okay. I think the more I process it and the more — I mean, I’ve kept it kind of to myself. I didn’t want any comments getting out there without us doing this. I want the best things for Ashley. I just don’t think the spark was fully ignited by the time we had the conversations, but I respect her for at least doing it earlier on. We could have done two or three more trips and then it just would kind of dragged out, so it’s all good. It makes sense.”

It’s over for Ashley Iaconetti and Kevin Wendt, the winning couple of The Bachelor: Winter Games.

The two reality stars fell in love on the special edition of the Bachelor Nation franchise, which aired during the Olympics last month. The couple reportedly wasn’t able to make it work due to their long distance relationship.

Ashley was on Chris Soules‘ season of The Bachelor and she also appeared on two seasons of Bachelor in Paradise. Kevin came to the show from The Bachelorette Canada.

“It was a little weird to have to figure out a long-term plan so soon,” a source told Entertainment Tonight. “Ashley and Kevin were both really into each other, they just weren’t sure if it was a forever thing. And it’s hard to date long distance like that.”

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