The Bachelor’s Grant Ellis Will get Engaged in Season 29 Finale

It weighed closely on his coronary heart, however Grant Ellis picked a closing rose recipient on The Bachelor!

Grant, 31, proposed to Juliana Pasquarosa within the March 24 finale — and she or he stated “sure!” Earlier than getting down on one knee, Juliana, 28, shared with Grant that he made her really feel “deserving of the kind of love you’ve got given me.” He later referred to as it “the happiest day of my life.”

“Juliana, since our first evening taking part in the piano and attending to know you, we have at all times had a connection,” he stated. “By way of this entire journey, you’ve got been any individual who has impressed me and saved me laughing together with your contagious smile, as a result of we perceive what we have been by, and we perceive what it means to persevere.”

“I actually imagine that you simply’re any individual who’s my greatest good friend, and I am so grateful for our journey, and if you’re going by the hardest instances in your life, I would like you to know that you do not have to undergo it alone, that I will be there for you,” he continued. “As your man, as your good friend, as your associate, will you marry me?”

Teary-eyed, Juliana accepted the proposal, exclaiming, “Sure. Completely, child!”

“Our connection is so robust, and we may also help one another by the great, the unhealthy and all the things in between,” Grant advised his wife-to-be.

“Every little thing. All of the issues,” she replied.

Previous to the proposal, the day dealer had narrowed it all the way down to Juliana and Litia Garr following Fantasy Suites, eliminating Zoe McGrady after spending an evening with every lady. He stated “I really like you” to Litia, 31, throughout Fantasy Suites, after which shared the identical sentiment with Juliana throughout the March 24 episode, which additionally featured Juliana and Litia assembly Grant’s household.

Earlier within the season, Grant met Juliana and Litia’s households, in addition to Zoe and Dina Lupancu’s family members. Juliana’s dad gave Grant his stamp of approval, telling the shopper service affiliate that he “cherished” the previous basketball professional.

“I actually like him rather a lot,” Juliana advised her sister Dominique throughout hometowns. “I believe that I do know, for some cause, it’s like I do know he’s my man.”

Throughout Fantasy Suites, Juliana expressed that she anxious about not being the one lady left within the race for Grant’s coronary heart.

“I begin to spiral as a result of I additionally know that there’s different women right here that he’s additionally forming connections with and the truth that it couldn’t be me jogs my memory of my previous relationship,” she stated.

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However Grant supplied her reassurance. “I’m falling for you, and this entire week is clearly onerous, however I’m going to let you already know, I take into consideration you numerous,” he advised Juliana.

Grant and Juliana spent the evening collectively, and she or he referred to as it a “12 out of 10 expertise.”

“It was precisely what we would have liked,” she added.

Grant, who appeared on Jenn Tran’s season of The Bachelorette, stated on the March 6 episode of The Viall Information podcast that whereas he didn’t decide to not having intercourse within the Fantasy Suites, he determined he wouldn’t “interact” in intercourse except he already had readability on which lady he wished to suggest to in a while.

“At that time, I did not know who was my particular person,” Grant admitted, including that he “did not say I didn’t do different issues!”

Earlier than his journey started, Grant advised PEOPLE that holding again within the Fantasy Suites helped him keep centered on the massive resolution that awaited him on finale day.

“My tackle Fantasy Suites was to take issues sluggish and never rush, as a result of I believe loads of instances if you provoke the bodily half, it might trigger you to make actually unhealthy choices,” he stated. “So my strategy to that [was] to attend, and to see what my connections had been like earlier than I interact in something that will be thought of bodily, and that actually helped me to make good choices at that time.”

The fact star additionally shared that he felt “very proud of the ending” of his season.

“Issues ended the best way they had been supposed to finish, and I am proud of it,” Grant stated. “I am proud of choices I made, and I do not remorse something.”

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The Bachelor season 29 finale is airing Monday, March 24, on ABC from 8-11 p.m. ET.