Bachelor in Paradise couple Abigail Heringer and Noah Erb have announced they're engaged after dating for more than two years.
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Along with their announcement, the couple uploaded a slideshow of photos from their engagement.
Noah, wearing a white polo with khaki pants, proposed marriage during a rooftop picnic on a beach in San Diego, CA. Noah had set up a picnic blanket covered with red rose petals.
Abigail looked beautiful in a white crop top and matching pants, and she appeared ecstatic and emotional when Noah popped the question on bended knee.
Abigail then shared via Instagram Stories that, after Noah proposed, he surprised her with concert tickets to Taylor's Eras Tour.
Congratulatory messages poured in from Bachelor Nation.
The Bachelorette's current star Charity Lawson wrote, "Congratulations!!!!"
Serena Pitt commented, "CONGRATULATIONS!!! Screaming crying throwing up! Love you both so so much."
Becca Kufrin gushed, "So unbelievably happy for you kiddos, love you so much."
And Rachael Kirkconnell wrote, "Crying happy tears!! God bless you both so happy for y'all."
Serene Russell, Greg Grippo, Hannah Godwin, and more Bachelor Nation members also expressed their love and support.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOWIn July, Abigail revealed she and Noah were moving out of San Diego because she had bought a home to share with Noah in his Tulsa, OK, hometown.
Abigail said the house needed "a little TLC" but she "couldn't be more in love" and she was "excited to start" her next chapter with Noah, where they planned to create new memories.
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In June, Abigail figured out what her dream engagement ring would look like through a TikTok challenge, which ultimately showed her an oval solitaire.
Abigail and Noah began dating on Bachelor in Paradise's seventh season, which aired in Summer 2021.
In June 2022, Abigail told Us Weekly on its "Here for the Right Reasons" podcast that she and Noah talked "a lot" about an engagement in their future and how they definitely felt pressure from Bachelor Nation "to move quickly."
"And I don't blame them," Noah quipped at the time. "We'd make a great married couple. But yeah, we have conversations ourselves. I think we're on the same page."
But Noah said he and Abigail were "pretty happy" with the pace they were moving and he found it shocking many DMs and/or comments he had been receiving on a daily basis "from middle-aged women or married couples about proposing." He said "at least 20" a day.
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Abigail and Noah were smitten with each other on Bachelor in Paradise's seventh season in Summer 2021, but they broke up before Fantasy Suites because Abigail had struggled to be vulnerable and so Noah lost his confidence that he and Abigail were meant to be together.
But after filming ended, Noah and Abigail reconnected and reconciled, and Bachelor in Paradise's October 2021 finale later revealed how the couple planned to take things "slowly" going forward.
"You never know what you have until it's gone, then you never let it go," Noah wrote via Instagram in October 2021. "World, meet my new GF, turns out we do know how to talk to each other and I think I'll keep her."
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Abigail, for her part, simultaneously gushed about being in love with Noah on Instagram.
Abigail -- an Oregon native -- proceeded to announce on Instagram in late March 2022 that she'd be relocating from New York City to the West Coast in order to be close to Noah as well as her family.
"It's definitely been an adjustment," Noah told Us, later adding, "But it's been good. It's been fun."
Abigail and Noah began spending a lot of time together once Noah's nursing contracts were up and he could take a break from traveling for his job.
Looking back on their Bachelor in Paradise breakup, Noah said last year that his brief split from Abigail made their relationship "more real."
"You step away -- no cameras, no production, just you and somebody you like that were in a crazy experience in the real world," Noah explained.
"I think it's good. It makes it more real. You get to say, 'Okay, where am I at in real life with my own thoughts and my own time?' And all that."
Noah dubbed his The Bachelorette stint on Season 16 starring Clare Crawley and then Tayshia Adams in 2020 as well as his journey on Bachelor in Paradise's seventh season in 2021 "a distant, fond memory."
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