The Bachelorette alum Luke Parker has announced he is engaged three years after he failed to woo Hannah Brown on the show's fifteenth season.
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Luke and Jennifer shared a slideshow of photos from The Bachelorette alum's marriage proposal, which apparently took place in a park in Cookeville, TN.
"From Luke: Ending 2022 off STRONG.ï¸ I know those who are close aren't surprised.. but if you don't know @jfrudaker she's incredible and we are the perfect FIT!" Luke captioned the slideshow.
"I've been on the hunt for a wife (of noble character) / Proverbs 31 women for a while now! Started to think it was never going to happen. For those who need to hear.. because I did... Gods timing is perfect! Keep the faith because he does have the perfect plan! @jfrudaker I LOVE YOU!"
And the remainder of the post was a message "from Jen."
"I guess I made my Year End reel too soon. When the Bible says 'exceedingly and abundantly more than you can ask or imagine,' you should hold it as fact, then pray, wait, and watch," Jen added in the post.
"Over the last two years I've gotten to watch @luke_parker777 live out the fruits of the spirit -- first as a there-no-matter-what FRIEND, then as his girlfriend. I cannot believe we get to do this the rest of our lives, babe!! I love you!!!"
Jennifer's Instagram bio reads that she's "flawed, forgiven and free," and she apparently works in media and athlete management.
Season 26 The Bachelor star Clayton Echard commented on Luke's post, "Congrats, man!"
Luke found reality fame when he competed on Hannah's season of The Bachelorette in 2019.
Luke appeared on the show as a born-again virgin. Despite previously abusing sex and alcohol in his teen and college years, Luke claimed he had abstained from sex for three or four years prior to going on The Bachelorette.
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Hannah was smitten with Luke in the first few weeks of the show, and Luke ultimately fell in love with the former Alabama beauty queen.
But Hannah ultimately eliminated Luke before the overnight portion of their Fantasy Suite date in Greece.
Hannah sent Luke packing because she felt judged and shamed by the religious bachelor during their discussion about premarital sex in which Luke had asked Hannah whether she'd slept with one or more of his competitors earlier in the week.
Luke was shown saying "the marriage bed" should be kept "pure" during their date.
"I just want to make sure you're not going to be sexually intimate in your other relationships here. I totally have all the trust in the world for you, but at the same time, I want to know we're on the same page," Luke told Hannah at the time.
"If you told me you're having sex or you had sex with one or multiple of these guys, I would be wanting to go home, 100 percent."
But instead of being on the same page, Hannah flipped out on Luke and told him to leave.
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The scene of Hannah and Luke's breakup is when Hannah memorably announced, "I have had sex and Jesus still loves me."
But Luke returned to the Final 3 Rose Ceremony to fight for Hannah and hopefully win her back -- only to get brutally rebuffed by Hannah again in front of Peter, her eventual runner-up Tyler Cameron, and her eventual winner Jed Wyatt.
Before The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All aired in July 2019, Luke took to Instagram to explain why he seemed bewildered and disappointed after learning Hannah had sex while filming the show.
"In my hometown date I brought Hannah to a Bible study with my college church group, where I shared my story of how God transformed my life and gave me a desire to live my life for him in obedience, that included waiting until marriage for sex," Luke shared in an Instagram post at the time.
"Hannah on the date, stands up and tells the group her story of how she was convicted to live a life in pursuit of Jesus. She also told them that she wasn't going to use the fantasy suites for sex but for conversation, no matter how @abcnetwork made it look."
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And then during The Men Tell All, Hannah clarified she had never planned on having sex in the Fantasy Suite -- that it just happened when it felt right -- but it was not Luke's or anyone else's business to ask her about it.
"Are you really telling me that you never said, 'Don't judge me about the Fantasy Suites, because I won't be using them for sex?'" Luke asked Hannah.
"I did not say that. Fantasy Suites aren't used for sex. You didn't have one so maybe you don't know, but Fantasy Suites aren't used for sex," Hannah replied.
Hannah accepted a marriage proposal from Jed during The Bachelorette 15 finale, but their relationship quickly fell apart and Hannah chose to call off their engagement once she learned Jed had a girlfriend back home in Nashville while he was filming the reality dating series.
Hannah then attempted a second shot at love with Tyler, who instead moved on with supermodel Gigi Hadid.
Hannah also appeared on Peter's The Bachelor season with confusing lingering feelings, which resulted in the pilot and Hannah hooking up in early 2020 while Season 24 of The Bachelor was airing on ABC.
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Both individuals have insisted, in fact, they never even kissed during that time together, and Hannah later admitted that she felt like a "backup" option for the former general contractor from Florida.
Hannah claimed Tyler's last text to her was, "Well... if you rock with me, you rock with me. If you don't, you don't."
Hannah has now been happily dating model Adam Woolard for two years and they live together in Santa Monica, CA.
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