She said yes! After six years of dating — and a few good-natured nudges from his now-fiancée — Small people, big world star Matt Roloff proposed to Caryn Chandler.
“After six wonderful years together, I asked Caryn to marry me, and she said ‘yes’!” The 61-year-old TLC personality told People in a statement on Wednesday, April 19. “Our plan is to enjoy our engagement, and we look forward to a simple yet elegant wedding in 2024.”
Although the couple went Instagram official with their relationship in March 2017, nine months after the farmer finalized his divorce from his ex-wife Amy Rolloff, they had known each other for years due to Chandler’s work on the family farm. (The Roloffs, who share twins Zack et Jeremy32 years old son Jacob26 years old and his daughter Molly29, originally separated in 2015 after 28 years of marriage.)
In an August 2021 episode of LPBWMatt and Chandler, 55, discussed their relationship status when a producer asked if the two were already engaged.
“We’re not,” she said at the time, happily punching the Against All Odds: Being a David in a Goliath World author. “He didn’t ask me, so we’re definitely not yet.”
For his part, Matt said the two weren’t engaged “yet” – to which the Arizona native replied, “Don’t push it.”
Earlier that year, the Roloff family patriarch teased the possibility of a proposal after a fan told him to “marry” Chandler.
“Maybe I would!!” Matt responded to Viewer via Instagram in March 2021. “You’ll have to wait and see. :)).”
The reality stars already proved their commitment to each other when they moved to Arizona together (while maintaining separate homes in Oregon).
“Our big plan right now is to stay engaged, to stay in love, to go to Arizona and spend an awful lot of time together,” Chandler explained on the August 10, 2021 episode of LPBW. “When we’re here in Portland, we’ll be living individually and seeing each other a lot.” Matt agreed, calling the move “a whole new major chapter in life.”
Matt Roloff et Caryn Chandler
Courtesy of Matt Roloff/InstagramFor her part, Amy, 60, married her husband Chris Mareck — who she had been dating since 2016 — that same month. Matt wasn’t invited to the wedding.
“It was nothing against Matt or Caryn, but it made it more comfortable for the kids and for the guests,” Marek, 60, exclusively shared. We Weekly in November 2021, noting that having the two there “would have been awkward for Amy and Matt’s kids.”
“Which are they supposed to be happy for?” he asked at the time. “I just think it would have been a lot of mixed emotions for them to be there together.”
A year prior, Chandler exclusively said We that there is “no hard feelings” between the two couples.
“Time heals, and so everything is moving in a good trajectory right now,” she said. “Everyone works hard. We all love their grandchildren. We are sometimes together and we make it pleasant.
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Amy and Matt share seven grandchildren: Jackson, 5, Lilah, 3, Josiah, 17 months (Zach’s children with his wife, Tori Roloff), Ember, 5, Bode, 3, Radley, 17 months (Jeremy’s children with his wife, Audrey Rolloff) and Mateo, 16 months (Jacob’s son with his wife Isabelle Roloff).
