Sabrina Soto Particulars Escape Room Proposal, Marriage ceremony Plans (Unique)

• Inside designer Sabrina Soto bought engaged to MLB bodily therapist Nathan Whitney in January throughout an escape room problem. The ultimate clue was truly a guide written by Whitney which chaptered every month of their relationship and had the engagement ring hidden inside
• “It was so romantic and in addition so artistic and considerate,” Soto tells PEOPLE of the proposal
• Now that Soto’s new discuss present, The Sabrina Soto Present, is lastly airing, she says she’ll have the ability to focus extra on wedding ceremony planning

Sabrina Soto is opening up about her fiancé, proposal, wedding ceremony and new discuss present!

The inside designer, 49, introduced her engagement on Instagram on Jan. 27, writing, “💍 Probably the most sudden shock of my life. Perpetually begins now. ❤️.”

On the time, Soto didn’t publicly establish her fiancé — Nathan “Nate” Whitney, a bodily therapist for the Chicago Cubs — as a result of “he isn’t a social media individual.” However now, she’s completely sharing particulars with PEOPLE about her future husband, his “loopy” proposal and their potential wedding ceremony plans.

“He makes me giggle a lot,” Soto tells PEOPLE of Whitney. “I really feel so secure with him and I simply respect him lots. I truly just like the individual he’s. I do know that sounds bizarre as a result of, in fact, I’ve to love him, however I feel lots of people get caught up in ardour and issues, however on the finish of the day he is my greatest good friend.”

The couple met on-line a few yr and a half in the past. Soto initially fearful their relationship would not work as a result of Whitney lived in Chicago, and he or she wasn’t positive if he can be keen to maneuver to Los Angeles. She addressed the problem on their third date as a result of she “did not need to waste his time.”

“It is humorous — due to the lengthy distance, we needed to type of get some issues off the desk simply to verify we have been on the identical web page,” Soto says. “I feel that type of began a superb basis for communication for us.”

When it got here time for the shock proposal, Whitney had all the pieces deliberate to a T. His mother and father have been flying into city for a go to. Earlier than they arrived, Whitney requested Soto if she needed to do one thing “enjoyable” with him, suggesting an escape room. Having by no means executed one earlier than, Soto excitedly agreed. 

The previous HGTV star nearly backed out of the date as a result of her daughter, Olivia Grey — whom she shares with ex-boyfriend Steve Grevemberg — all of a sudden bought sick, and he or she needed to scrub the home once more. As a result of escape rooms solely take about an hour, Soto determined that it will be okay to nonetheless go.

“I did not know that it isn’t regular for 2 folks to be within the constructing by themselves,” she says. “We get into this room, he is performing so nervous. I knew he was nerdy, however that is taking it to a complete new stage — that he is this frantic about an escape room, taking it so critically.”

A guide popped out for the ultimate clue. Soto opened it anticipating one other escape room trace however as a substitute discovered her love story with Whitney, and a diamond ring sitting in a hollowed-out gap.

“It is this guide that he wrote to me,” Soto explains. “Each chapter was a month in our relationship, and it was an image of us, after which the chapter was about how our relationship modified his life in that specific month. On the finish of the guide, he reduce a gap and my engagement ring was within the guide.”

Soto was moved by the “considerate” proposal, however was additionally harassed that they’d be late to choose up Whitney’s mother and father from the airport.

“I simply began crying and I believed, ‘Okay, nicely, we nonetheless need to go choose up your mother and father,’ ” Soto recollects. “And he was like, ‘My mother and father are already right here.’ ” 

Whitney’s mother and father and Soto’s household have been ready to have fun the engagement at a restaurant the place the couple had their first date.

“It was simply loopy that he went via all of that,” Soto says. “That they have been ready for it was so romantic and in addition so artistic and considerate. Additionally humorous as a result of I am not an escape room type of individual however he needed to plan one thing off-the-wall for me to be shocked. I had no concept.”

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Soto and Whitney have began tossing round wedding ceremony concepts, however have not made any last choices.

“At first I simply thought we should always go to Metropolis Corridor,” Soto says. “So it is gone all the best way from simply going to Metropolis Corridor to a marriage. I’ve a spot in Flora Farms in Cabo, a little bit farm, it is on the precise farm, a little bit home. So we have gone from Metropolis Corridor to perhaps out on the farm to perhaps a marriage right here, so we do not know but.”

Soto has been busy planning and dealing on what “nearly appears like a marriage” — her new discuss present, The Sabrina Soto Present, which she hosts and govt produces. 

“As soon as the present airs I am going to have the ability to actually give myself to specializing in the marriage and doing all of the planning for that,” Soto tells PEOPLE.

The primary episode of The Sabrina Soto Present, wherein Justina Blakeney, Catherine McCord and Lewis Howes visitor star, premieres on Monday, March 17, on The Design Community, streaming on Hulu, Samsung, Amazon and Roku. The present options expert-driven conversations on dwelling, meals, wellness and extra.

“There isn’t any probability that you just watch any episode of The Sabrina Soto Present and you do not enhance some side of your life,” Soto says. “There’s a lot takeaway in each episode.”

“The entire purpose that I needed to create this present was to indicate folks how you can redesign their lives. I’ve been in ruts in my very own life, whether or not it’s in relationships or profession, and it took me a lot time to determine what the correct instruments have been to type of flip issues round and get out of a rut, and that is what this present is about,” she continues. “It is about motivating folks and provoking folks to make these small shifts that make a huge impact of their life.”