Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas Just Revealed How He Proposed, and It's So Romantic
You’ve probably heard that Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are getting married this weekend in India. I mean, we haven’t seen wedding hype quite this loud since Chopra’s BFF Meghan Markle was about to walk down the aisle with Prince Harry.
Sure, Meghan and Harry had a literal royal wedding, but Chopra and Jonas do have a lot in common with them: Both of their weddings include a celebrity-filled guest list, international travel, and a very romantic proposal story at the start. In a new interview with Vogue, Chopra and Jonas open up for the first time publicly about how it all went down.
It happened this July, when Chopra and Jonas took a vacation to the Greek island of Crete. She thought it was simply a birthday trip, but he had other plans in mind—in fact, Jonas had already shut down a Tiffany & Co. store in London weeks prior (with his brothers) to pick out a ring.
“I got down on one knee, again, and I said: Will you make me the happiest man in the world and marry me?” Jonas says of the moment. “No joke—she took about 45 seconds. Forty-five seconds of silence.” Chopra says she was speechless, hence the silence. But Jonas would not be deterred, saying, “I’m going to put this ring on your finger now unless you have any objections.”
As for how Chopra knew he was the one…she says it was a moment on a date in Los Angeles when he told her, “I love the way you look at the world. I love the drive you have.” She explains, “As a girl, I’ve never had a guy tell me, ‘I like your ambition.’ It’s always been the opposite.”
Once they were engaged, the couple continued the celebration with a traditional Hindu engagement ceremony called a roka in Mumbai in August. “It was such an incredible coming-together of two really ancient cultures and religions,” Chopra says. “Nick did the Hindu prayers. The prayers are in Sanskrit. Even I can’t say them. But he did it in Sanskrit. The Indians were so impressed with their National Jiju [Jonas’ nickname in the Indian press, meaning ‘brother-in-law’ or ‘sister’s husband’].”
Next up? Not one but two ceremonies this week honoring both their religious backgrounds. We can’t wait.
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