In 2019, a mutual friend set Olivia Culpo and Christian McCaffrey up on a blind date. When she walked into a San Diego hotel lobby to meet him for the first time, he was holding a bouquet of flowers, and as they talked, Olivia was quickly charmed by Christian’s kindness and humour. She had recently written in her journal a list of the qualities she was looking for in a partner and realised he checked every box.
“After that night we were inseparable,” she says. Four years later, Christian, a San Francisco 49ers running back, and Olivia, a model and former Miss Universe, got engaged during a road trip to Utah. “Christian should get an Oscar for his acting skills because I had absolutely no idea he was proposing,” Olivia says, laughing.
“He was so good at convincing me that he wasn’t ready.” Secretly, he’d been planning a proposal for months: after driving an RV through the red-rock desert, the two arrived at the Amangiri hotel. That night, an employee brought Olivia into the middle of the desert for what she thought was a casual sunset cocktail with Christian.
“When I walked up, there were the most beautiful flowers surrounding the area and a gorgeous sunset,” she says. “I’ll never forget Christian turning around and saying, ‘This is long overdue.’ He got down on one knee, and I started to cry.
” Olivia always knew she wanted a traditional in her home state, Rhode Island. After deciding to marry on 29 June at Ocean House, an historic resort in Wat.
