The Bachelorette alum Andi Dorfman has announced she is engaged to boyfriend Blaine Hart.

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Andi, who starred on The Bachelorette's tenth season, took to Instagram on Wednesday to reveal Blaine has popped the question and she said yes!

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"WORTH THE WAIT!!!!" Andi captioned a photo of herself straddling and kissing Blaine on the beach.

In the photo, the 34-year-old Atlanta native was showing off her large diamond engagement ring on her left hand.

Andi told People on Wednesday that Blaine proposed marriage on the beach at their special "spot" in Los Angeles, CA, and the moment was both "really great and intimate."

"Blaine told me he made dinner reservations and asked if I wanted to do sunset cocktails on the beach, which is something we do all the time here in L.A.," Andi said.

"We get down to our spot, pour some wine, walked toward the water and when I turned around, he was on one knee. I don't even remember what he said; I just remember hugging him and crying. I didn't even remember seeing the ring at first."

Afterward, Andi went on to reveal, "The best part was, he told me instead of dinner we were going to stay the night at Hotel Bel-Air. So we drove home to pack a bag."

And when Andi opened the door to her home, she shared, "Both of our families and my closest friends were there to surprise me."

"That's when I really started bawling," Andi recalled.

"My nephew and niece were there and came running up to us. It was adorable. And turns out, Blaine had been planning with our families and my friends for a month to get it all organized and I had absolutely no clue!"

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Blaine proposed with a ring designed by the same jeweler who had created Andi's mother's engagement ring nearly 40 years ago.

Andi noted how her ring -- which boasts a halo and split shank -- "symbolizes so much love and happiness," and based on the photos of their engagement obtained by People, Andi got visibly emotional after saying yes.

"I love, too, that Blaine visited my parents in Atlanta to ask both of them for their blessing and even called my sister to ask for hers as well," Andi revealed. "That just epitomizes the kind of man Blaine is."

Andi and Blaine are already envisioning their wedding day, with Andi sharing, "I think we would love to do a wedding in Italy where we rekindled our relationship last summer."

"I'll be honest," she continued, "the idea of planning a wedding is overwhelming for me, but I joke with Blaine that I want to play the role of the groom during the wedding process and maybe he can narrow every option down to three and I'll choose from there. We'll see if that happens."

Andi initially revealed on Instagram in November 2021 that she was dating someone special, but she didn't disclose his identity at the time. She even posted photos on Instagram without showing his face.

But Andi officially introduced Blaine to the world via Instagram on New Year's Eve.

Andi posted a photo of the couple kissing at The Breakers Palm Beach and captioned it, "By far my favorite thing from 2021."

And then on New Year's Day, Andi uploaded a photo of the pair posing side by side in formal attire outside of the swanky hotel.

"Cheers to a year filled with love and sparkles. 2022... I have a feeling you might very well be the best one yet! Happy New Year," Andi wrote alongside her post.

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Andi told People that she wanted to "protect" Blaine from the public eye for as long as she could.

"But it's fun for me to share it now, and it makes me feel good to see that people are truly happy that I finally found love," she said.

Andi insisted her love for Blaine is different from what she had felt in past relationships.

"Not only do we love each other tremendously, but we like being with each other. We both just want to make the other happy and in turn our relationship is a lot of fun. That's the word I'd use to describe our relationship: fun," Andi boasted.

"It's not about it being easy or hard — that's not our barometer. I knew Blaine was different and I remember just hoping that the shoe wouldn't drop and this was the real deal and it turned out it was!"

Andi and Blaine also gushed about their love for each other in a February interview with Us Weekly.

"We've said a lot of things, a lot of cliche phrases like, 'Timing is everything,' [and] 'When you know, you know,'" Blaine shared at the time.

And Blaine, a commercial real estate professional, listed the things he loves most about Andi.

"Where do I start?" Blaine asked Us. "I think we have a great chemistry, a good connection. She's very smart, also very funny, keeps me laughing... The list is long, but the humor is at the top."

It turns out Andi and Blaine -- who claims he didn't watch her The Bachelorette season -- actually met 15 years ago and reunited in Summer 2021.

"He was kind of hitting me up a little bit," Andi explained of how she and Blaine exited the friend zone.

"And then we were both in Italy [on separate vacations]... And he basically said, 'I want to take you out for drinks' [and we've] been together ever since!"

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Andi recalled meeting up with Blaine and having "no expectations," but she couldn't deny his good looks.

"When he walked into the bar... I was like, 'Dang, he's so cute,'" Andi gushed to Us earlier this year.

But the pair have been trying to make a long-distance relationship work, "splitting time" between South Carolina -- where Blaine lives -- and Los Angeles, CA, where Andi currently resides.

"I'm trying to convince him [to move to L.A.]," Andi previously said.

Andi, a former assistant district attorney from Atlanta, GA, found fame when she appeared on The Bachelor's 18th season starring Juan Pablo Galavis.

Andi proceeded to star on The Bachelorette in 2014, when she rejected runner-up Nick Viall and got engaged to winner Josh Murray. The finale aired in July 2014.

Andi and Josh announced their split on January 8, 2015. Almost two months later, Andi took to Twitter to reveal she had decided to move to New York City. She then relocated to California in June 2020.

Andi has written two tell-all memoirs, It's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After as well as Single State of Mind, the first of which bashes Josh and how he had treated her during their short-lived relationship.

Andi had accused Josh of being verbally abusive, temperamental and controlling in her book -- which Josh in turn called "fiction."

"I was disgusted with myself for what I put up with. I was a strong, independent woman and I allowed [Josh] to be [emotionally abusive]. Now, I know I don't want someone jealous or controlling. I know what won't make me happy in [the future]," Andi told People in 2016.

"We all have red flags in our relationships that we don't see. Looking back and seeing those red flags was very cathartic for me. I realized our relationship wasn't the highlight of my life like I thought it was. So I took it off the pedestal and realized all was not lost."

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