‘The Bachelor’ finale: Joey Graziadei’s journey for love ends with a proposal

Joey Graziadei’s journey to seek out love on “The Bachelor” got here to a detailed throughout Monday night time’s dramatic finale.

Graziadei proposed to Kelsey Anderson, a junior challenge supervisor from New Orleans, Louisiana, in the course of the season 28 finale of “The Bachelor.”

The episode additionally noticed the 28-year-old tennis professional saying goodbye to Daisy Kent, an account govt from Becker, Minnesota.

Season 28 of “The Bachelor” kicked off in January with Graziadei assembly 32 girls trying to find a connection.

Graziadei and Anderson related throughout their one-on-one date in Spain over their love for journey in addition to over the significance of household.

Throughout their date, Anderson opened as much as Graziadei in regards to the influence that her mother, who died from breast most cancers, has had on her life. With the potential of an engagement on the finish of her journey on the present, Anderson advised Graziadei on the time that being on “The Bachelor” was “exhausting typically to consider my mother not being there at my wedding ceremony.”

However Anderson advised Graziadei that main as much as “The Bachelor,” her mother had despatched her “indicators” within the type of butterflies, which she stated was her manner of her mother “reassuring” her to embark on this journey to seek out love. Anderson added that her dad additionally stated that discovering love this manner was one thing her mother would do.

Graziadei was touched by Anderson’s story and their love continued to blossom thereafter.

Graziadei, who was the runner-up on Charity Lawson’s season of “The Bachelorette,” stated he felt like his story “wasn’t completed” after his time on “The Bachelorette” and was “excited” to seek out his individual because the Bachelor.

“These final couple years have been actually massive for me, and I have been engaged on myself, and I believe that is most necessary in having the ability to discover your individual is to be prepared your self, and I really feel good,” he stated.

Forward of the proposal, each Kent and Anderson met Graziadei’s household and had closing dates with him. Whereas Anderson’s week main as much as the proposal was reassuring, with a particular date on the spa, Kent wasn’t feeling as assured, particularly after she advised Graziadei that she cherished him and he didn’t say it again.

On the day of the proposal, Kent visited Anderson in her lodge room to see how she’d been feeling and her emotions about her not being the one Graziadei chooses have been affirmed when Anderson advised her in regards to the expertise she had with Graziadei on their closing date.

In a novel second, Kent and Anderson arrived in the identical automobile collectively to the seashore the place Graziadei was set to suggest. Kent walked onto the seashore first and advised Graziadei how she knew that she wasn’t the one. After sharing a heartbreaking goodbye, Kent stated within the automobile that she was happy with herself for a way she gave this expertise “my all.”

“If I can love the fallacious person who a lot, think about how I may love the correct individual,” Kent stated.

When Anderson walked onto the seashore, Graziadei advised her he cherished her, acquired down on one knee and proposed. She stated sure and he gave her his closing rose.

Through the “After the Closing Rose” ceremony, Graziadei and Kent met for the primary time for the reason that day she left the seashore, and Kent advised him that she was pleased for him. She additionally shared when she first sensed that she wasn’t the one he was going to decide on. In the long run, she advised Graziadei that she “can’t wait to observe” him and Anderson develop and that she’ll “at all times look again and smile” on this expertise.

Now that they’re engaged, Graziadei shared his pleasure about spending the remainder of his life with Anderson.

“She is a light-weight, one thing about Kelsey is exclusive,” he stated. “She provides power totally in her personal manner. I don’t know the way I’m going to have a boring day of life together with her by my facet.”

Anderson added that they’re hoping to maneuver to New York collectively.

“I really feel just like the luckiest man on this planet,” Graziadei stated. “I can not wait to see what comes subsequent.”