The ceremonial comes a small much than a twelvemonth aft Simone revealed Jonathan popped the question successful a romanticist fashion—and yes, she was practically doing backflips implicit the engagement.

"THE EASIEST YES," the gymnast wrote alongside a bid of photos featuring the magical infinitesimal posted to Instagram successful February 2022. "I can't hold to walk everlastingly & ever with you. You're everything I dreamed of and more! let's get joined FIANCÉ."

As for Jonathan, the Houston Texans subordinate besides gushed astir the moment, hinting that it each went down connected Valentine's Day. In his saccharine station shared to Instagram Feb. 15, the St. Louis autochthonal noted that helium "woke up this greeting with a fiancée."

The couple's courthouse nuptials whitethorn precede a larger event. Soon aft the engagement, Simone wrote connected her Instagram, erstwhile asked astir her must-have for her wedding, "Beach. It volition beryllium a destination wedding." Earlier this month, she reiterated, successful effect to a fan, "We are having a destination wedding," according to Essentially Sports.

In March 2022, Simone picked retired a Galia Lahav wedding dress, according to the brand. The pursuing April, the Olympian was afloat velocity up erstwhile it came to readying her and her partner's imagination wedding, adjacent hinting astatine who made the impermanent list.

"We person immoderate of my teammates," she exclusively told E! News of her attendees successful April 2022. "But different than that, it's truly adjacent family, friends and radical that person watched america turn passim our narration and volition stock that emotion connected that day."

At the time, Simone also recalled picking retired her wedding dress, and portion she kept the intricate details adjacent to the chest, she did uncover a aureate infinitesimal happened erstwhile she recovered the one.

"I had my champion person and my ma determination and past erstwhile we recovered the dress, we did FaceTime Jonathan's ma truthful that she could spot it," she explained. "But it was conscionable a very, adjacent choky knit group. I didn't amusement each my friends due to the fact that we inactive wanted it to beryllium peculiar for everybody. It was thing I didn't deliberation I would spell with, which was truthful brainsick due to the fact that I came successful with a database of my likes, what I privation it to look similar and past I benignant of did the implicit other of that."

Fast-forward to this January—and arsenic the Ohio autochthonal sweetly revealed, she didn't needfully request to hold until their large time to get each the flowers her bosom desired.

"Almost play helium brings maine flowers," the golden medalist exclusively told E! News' Francesca Amiker. "It's benignant of cliché but it's conscionable truthful cute because, aft his practices from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., helium inactive takes the clip to enactment a grin connected my face."

And arsenic Simone noted, she had a batch much crushed to smile, sharing that their wedding would diagnostic a "very classical and elegant" theme.

But determination would beryllium even more to celebrate, since Simone shared successful March that the mates besides chose to simultaneously embark connected different section of their journey: gathering their precise ain home.

"A location is made with emotion & dreams," she captioned a March 5 Instagram station of the brace lasting wrong a crippled of land. "Cheers to breaking ground."