Dobrev and White, meanwhile, are just plain thrilled that their tentative, let’s-see-where-this-goes connection has blossomed into a full-fledged thing, something they didn’t quite expect when they were ringing in 2020 together in Las Vegas, introduced by mutual friends.
“They eased into the relationship slowly,” an insider explained to E! News. But once quarantine hit, the absence of work and most social gatherings gave them nothing but time together. Said the insider, “Things have really accelerated during this social distancing period.”
And having checked off all the necessarily couple milestones (first Thanksgiving? Yup! Joint Christmas? Uh-huh. Massive house reno? Why not?), there was just one more to clinch, which White recently did in winning fashion.
“She said YES,” he captioned an Oct. 30 Instagram post of his New York City proposal, complete with candles, flower petals and a floral installation as impressive as his bride-to-be’s new diamond. “RIP boyfriend,” Dobrev wrote in her own ‘gram, “hello fiancé.”
The switch-up was a longtime coming for pals who quickly took to the comments. “I know this was y’all’s dream come true but let’s be honest, you made all of our dreams come true,” Julianne Hough wrote.
Because their romance was only a year or so old when one source told E! News in late 2020, “They openly talk about their future together. They’re just super happy, and things are going really well with them.”