Heather Rae Young and Tarek El Moussa.Photo: Tarek El Moussa/ instagram
TheFlip or Flopstar, 40, spoke to PEOPLE about his wedding plans with Young, 34, explaining why the couple decided to switch their location from Mexico to California — and change just about everything else about the festivities.
“We were originally going to get married in Cabo, Mexico, because we love Mexico. We loved the hotel, we loved everything about it, but this was months back, and it was during the pandemic. Well, not during, we’re still in the pandemic,” explains the star, whotested positive for breakthrough Covidrecently.
“But it was a lot stricter, and we had friends and family who were concerned about traveling, and we’re concerned about our parents who have some health issues,” El Moussa explains. “So because of all those factors, we decided to have a California one.”
Heather Rae Young/Instagram
Young shared with herInstagramfollowers in August that she and El Moussa"changed everything"about their wedding, telling her fans at the time, “I haven’t fully shared this but in the beginning, Tarek and I hired a wedding planner, sent out our save the dates, and then after rethinking some things we decided to completely change everything.”
“I’m a big believer that everything works out the way it should and after seeing so much of our vision come together today we couldn’t be happier,” she added.
Now, El Moussa says, his fiancée is “much calmer” after they moved their wedding “closer to home.”
“She found a wedding planner who she really connects with, and really liked, and they built a great relationship, and it’s really important to have someone that you click with,” he tells PEOPLE. “Everything’s been really smooth moving forward.”
Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae Young.Duke Images
With their wedding day fast approaching, El Moussa says he and his bride-to-be are feeling “both nervous and excited, because the second we say ‘I do’ and all this planning and talking and all this is over, we’re going to be able to breathe.”
He adds, “We’ve been talking about engagements and weddings for, I think it’s been 14 months now, so we’re almost there.”
“I have to come back, I’m filming for a couple of days straight, and then we are out of here,” El Moussa says.
The happy couple, who have been engaged since July 2020, have not revealed their wedding date, but they recently celebrated with ajoint bachelor and bachelorette partyin Palm Springs.
Young documented the weekend getaway onInstagram, where she looked back on the “magical” celebration with her fiancé.
source: people.com
