There were no roses. No heart-shaped arch, no pear-shaped diamond catching the Hawaiian sun, no caption written for the cameras. In early October 2026, Pedro Jimeno and Valentina Malagon were baptized together — and compared with everything else in their love story, almost nobody made a fuss about it.
That is why it matters: five months after their most public moment, they made their most private one — and the wedding still has no date.
A Rose Arch, Then Silence
On June 6, 2026, Pedro knelt on a beach in Oahu under a heart-shaped arch of red roses and asked Valentina to marry him, a pear-shaped diamond ring handcrafted by Diamondboi Designs waiting in his hand. The couple announced the engagement on June 23, and Pedro told PEOPLE that with Valentina, he had learned that “peace has a name.”
Then came the long quiet. No venue, no guest list, no agreement on where the wedding should even happen — Valentina wants Colombia, Pedro wants the Dominican Republic — and no wedding date has been publicly confirmed as of November 2026. His last public move was a repost of the proposal on October 21, four days after Chantel’s wedding — with no explanation attached.
What the Water Meant
A proposal is a promise made in front of an audience. A baptism is a promise made in front of God — and for a couple whose whole love story started in public, that distinction is the story.
Remember how they met. Valentina, a psychologist from Colombia, slid into Pedro’s DMs after seeing an Instagram Story that he was in her country. “I took my chances and sent him a message through Instagram,” she told the Single Life season 5 Tell All. At that same Tell All, Nicole Jimeno asked whether Valentina was after a sponsor — and Pedro defended her on the spot.
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The Blessing That Still Hasn’t Come
One person’s absence still hangs over everything: Lidia Jimeno. Pedro has said he will marry Valentina with or without Lidia’s blessing — because, as of now, his mother has not given it. Four years after the divorce from Chantel, the same fault line is still there.
That is what makes the baptism cut both ways: proof to Team Pedro that the wedding is real, just unscheduled — and to skeptics, a milestone standing in for the wedding that keeps not happening while Lidia’s seat stays empty.
Chantel Got the Helicopter. Pedro Got the Water.
On October 17, 2026, Chantel Everett married Ashley Bowen in front of roughly 60 guests, according to PEOPLE — then left by helicopter for a secret honeymoon in Cancun. Pedro’s second wedding, so far, is a baptism with no audience and a date that does not exist yet. The first time around, his marriage played out on camera until it broke; this time, the biggest step happened where no camera was invited.
If Pedro and Valentina already made their vow before God in that water, does the wedding date even matter — or is Lidia’s empty seat the only thing still standing between them and the altar? Was the baptism the real “I do,” or just a detour?
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