In 2019, a mutual pal set Olivia Culpo and Christian McCaffrey up on a blind date. When she walked right into a San Diego lodge foyer to satisfy him for the primary time, he was holding a bouquet of flowers, and as they talked, Olivia was shortly charmed by Christian’s kindness and humor. She had just lately written in her journal a listing of the qualities she was searching for in a companion and realized he checked each field. “After that night time we have been inseparable,” she says.4 years later, Christian, a San Francisco 49ers working again, and Olivia, a mannequin and former Miss Universe, obtained engaged throughout a highway journey to Utah. “Christian ought to get an Oscar for his performing expertise as a result of I had completely no thought he was proposing,” Olivia says, laughing. “He was so good at convincing me that he wasn’t prepared.” Secretly, he’d been planning a proposal for months: After driving an RV by means of the red-rock desert, the 2 arrived on the Amangiri lodge. That night time, an worker introduced Olivia into the center of the desert for what she thought was an off-the-cuff sundown cocktail with Christian. “After I walked up, there have been essentially the most stunning flowers surrounding the realm and a beautiful sundown,” she says. “I’ll always remember Christian turning round and saying, ‘That is lengthy overdue.’ He obtained down on one knee, and I began to cry.”Olivia all the time knew she needed a conventional wedding ceremony in her house state of Rhode Island. After deciding to marry on June 29 at Ocean Home, a historic resort in Watch Hill, she requested Lisa Vorce to be her wedding ceremony planner. Vorce utterly understood her imaginative and prescient and allowed her to be current, in accordance with Olivia. “I attempted to remind myself that this might very properly be one of many final instances Christian and I’ve each single one in all our family members in a single place,” she says of the planning course of. “I attempted to maintain gratitude on the forefront.”She then requested Dolce & Gabbana to design her wedding ceremony attire. “I had a really clear thought of what I needed for my ceremony gown,” Olivia explains. “I’ve labored with Dolce & Gabbana for years, so it was extremely particular to collaborate with Stefano [Gabbana], Domenico [Dolce], and the distinctive design and atelier crew.”