The Bachelor alum Abigail Heringer has revealed she and Noah Erb will be getting married this fall in Oklahoma.
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Abigail and Noah announced in January that they had bought their first home together in Tulsa.
"We knew we wanted to tie the knot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where we currently live, because it's where we spent the majority of our time when we were in hiding while Paradise was airing," Abigail told the magazine.
"It really was the place where our relationship blossomed and where we fell in love. We're so excited to show our friends and family how special this place is to us and to highlight Tulsa as a city."
Abigail admitted that some of her friends thought she was "crazy" for moving to Oklahoma with her man.
"I'm just excited to show them the life that Noah and I have been creating here and just how special Tulsa is!" Abigail gushed of her autumn nuptials.
"The venues we picked for our welcome party and wedding are some of our most special places in town and we just can't wait to kick off the wedding celebrations!"
In the meantime, Abigail is renovating her home with Noah and preparing for the release of her first book, The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds, in September.
The Bachelor alum's book will cover her "journey of navigating life with a profound hearing loss" as well as her "transformation from merely accepting her disability to embracing it wholeheartedly," according to the magazine.
The synopsis of Abigail's book reads, "Growing up deaf and introverted, she dreaded being the center of attention, fearing her disability would burden those around her. Among her hearing peers, she felt like an outsider, simply labeled as 'the deaf girl.'"
"And after receiving a cochlear implant at the age of two, she subsequently struggled to find her place in the Deaf community too," the synopsis continues, according to People.
RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELOR' FRANCHISE COUPLES NOW"Caught in between two worlds and grappling to define her identity as a deaf woman, Abigail felt like she belonged in neither."
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Abigail said she hopes her memoir will "empower others to embrace their truth, to stand tall in the face of adversity, and to live boldly and unapologetically in who they are," just as she has learned to do.
Abigail revealed on the April 25 episode of the "Bachelor Happy Hour" podcast that she and Noah had already picked out a wedding date, location and venue. They said they had hired a wedding planner so they wouldn't "fight over plans" or stress out.
"We're trying to keep it around 75 [people]. That would be ideal," Abigail said at the time.
Noah added, "We want a classy dinner party."
Abigail explained that while "big weddings are really fun," she and Noah want to be present with their guests and have a more intimate and romantic affair.
"[A big wedding is] very overstimulating and I want to be able to talk to everyone at the wedding and have conversations," Abigail said. "So we always knew we wanted a smaller wedding."
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In June 2022, Abigail told Us Weekly on its "Here for the Right Reasons" podcast that she and Noah definitely felt pressure from Bachelor Nation "to move quickly" in their relationship.
"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 they were having "a blast" just dating.
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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."
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 in 2022 that his brief split from Abigail made their relationship "more real."
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"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."
Prior to meeting Noah on Paradise, Abigail had competed on The Bachelor's 25th season starring Matt James.
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