The Bachelorette couple Michelle Young and Nayte Olukoya have teased what they're thinking for their wedding, nearly four months after their engagement aired on Season 18.
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The fifth grade teacher and her fiance are therefore still in the beginning stages of wedding planning.
"Nayte and I, we know so many different people and we have such big families and that's a huge part of [our planning process]," Michelle, 28, told Us Weekly recently.
"And so coming out of a pandemic... one thing that we both can't imagine is having a small wedding," the Minnesota native added, "and so we want to make sure that we're completely clear of that so that's not even a stressor for us, and then, [we want to have] warm weather [on our big day]."
For the time being, Michelle is living in Minneapolis, MN, and Nayte currently resides in Austin, TX.
"When we are together, we just spend time together like nonstop so it's nice," Nayte, 27, gushed to Us.
And Michelle added, "If we're not hanging out, we're texting [or] FaceTiming. We do a lot of movie nights like over FaceTime or Zoom. We've been making it work. But, he's been in Minnesota for a little bit now so it's been nice."
The couple shared how they've been traveling together, including destinations such as New York and Winnipeg, Canada, where Nayte was born. In fact, they just visited the same hotel in Mexico where they celebrated together after getting engaged on the show.
"It was amazing. It was really weird at first because we kind of jumped back into those feelings that we had when we were on the show, you know, show anxiety," Michelle explained.
"But once we got over that, we really just had so much fun. I feel like we're going to make it our annual vacation spot."
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RELATED LINK: 'THE BACHELORETTE' COUPLES NOWMichelle also said she and Nayte are continuing to learn more about each other and their quirks such as Nayte's "therapeutic" love of doing laundry, and their dogs are also still getting acquainted.
"It took a minute for them to kind of get used to [each other]," Michelle said.
"[My dog] Chief wasn't a fan of [his dog] Percy. Percy has a little too much energy I would say. But now they're getting used [to each other] -- now they actually bond and they cuddle and they play with each other so it's been fun to see."
Nayte previously told Us that he and Michelle would like to marry in the summer, although it appears a Summer 2022 wedding definitely won't be happening.
The sales executive said in February he and Michelle had been "looking at different options" and trying to be smart.
"We're definitely feeling it all out," Nayte said, before Michelle revealed they'll live together "eventually."
After getting engaged last year, Nayte revealed on The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose that he had planned to move to Minnesota in the next two or three months and the lovebirds had already begun house-hunting.
In fact, The Bachelor family gifted Michelle and Nayte a down payment on their first house together. (Michelle was caught whispering to Nayte on After the Final Rose that the check was for $200,000).
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"We vent to each other, we check each other and make sure that we're positive," Michelle said. "We dance, sing, goof around, all of it."
Nayte echoed that sentiment and noted how their relationship just "flows" effortlessly.
"I've never met anybody even, like, remotely close to him because he just has so many layers," Michelle shared of her fiance at the time. "And even now, like on a daily basis, I'm like, 'What did I do to deserve this? How did I get lucky?'"
"He tells me how he feels about me every day, multiple times," she added.
Michelle also told People, "I fall more in love every day."
"I was fortunate enough to grow up in a family with a healthy marriage and I thought, 'I'm not going to give up until I have that.' He's my person," she said. "And I didn't know I could love at this level."
And Nayte said he believes their relationship is going to last because they have the type of love everyone searches for.
"Every day, we'll just catch each other in just this, like, flow of emotion," Nayte said last year.
"It's just like, 'Holy crap, we are each other's. This is our life. This is actually forever.' We actually have a connection that is forever."
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