Four days after Chantel Everett married Ashley Bowen in front of about 60 guests, Pedro Jimeno dug up his own proposal photo and posted it again. On October 21, TV Season & Spoilers reported that Pedro had reposted his June 6, 2026 Hawaii proposal to Valentina Malagon, with no explanation attached. Within hours, fans moved on to the question underneath it: when Pedro and Valentina finally set their date, whose name goes on the invitation?
The wedding itself is still a blank page. Pedro proposed on June 6 on a beach in Oahu, under a heart-shaped arch of red roses, and the couple announced the engagement on June 23. Five months on, there is still no date or venue — Valentina wants Colombia, Pedro wants the Dominican Republic — and the guest list may be the most contested part of all.
Seat One: Lidia, the Mother Without a Blessing
The hardest seat belongs to Lidia Jimeno, for the simplest reason: she has not given her blessing. Pedro has said he will marry Valentina with or without it, and the couple were baptized together in early October. But a wedding without the groom’s mother is a wound.
Team Invite-Lidia-Anyway argues the blessing and the seat are two different things. At the Single Life Tell All, Pedro said, “This is the woman I am going to marry. It’s if my mom gives me the blessing, she gives me the blessing. If not, she doesn’t like, I go my way [with Valentina].” Team No-Seat-Until-She-Bends answers that a front-row seat is not a birthright, and Lidia has had five months to say yes.
Seat Two: Chantel, the Ex-Wife With a New Wife
Then there is the seat no one can stop arguing about: Chantel Everett herself. On October 17, 2026, she married Ashley Bowen at Fountainview Mansion in Auburn, Alabama, in front of roughly 60 guests, according to PEOPLE, then left by helicopter for a surprise honeymoon in Cancun. Whether Pedro was invited, nobody knows. When Pedro reposted his proposal four days later, Chantel answered his repost with silence.
Team Send-It says the invitation is the classiest move Pedro has left: both have moved on, and an invite proves the divorce is truly finished. Team Never says the history makes it unthinkable. Karen Everett hired a private investigator to vet Pedro back in 2016, and the divorce war ran through 2022 and 2023. To this camp, it would invite the whole war back into the room.
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If Chantel gets an invite, her parents come with the question attached. Karen and Thomas suspected Pedro from the start, and the private investigator is still the first twist fans name. Yet at the Hunt for Love Tell All in September 2025, Karen called Ashley a “clout chaser” onstage, then made the promise Karen made on the Tell All: asked how she would feel if Chantel married Ashley, she answered, “I would come to the wedding.”
Team Invite-The-Everetts says that promise is the whole argument. If Karen could show up for her daughter, Pedro can send two invitations. Team Leave-Them-Off says a wedding is not a reunion episode, and the Everetts spent years telling the world Pedro did not belong.
The Wild Cards: Winter, River, and Nicole
Beyond the big three, the wild cards may decide the tone of the day. Winter Everett has no public feud with Pedro and may be the easiest yes on the list. River Everett is the opposite: the brother who introduced Chantel to Ashley at his birthday party.
And then there is Nicole Jimeno, Pedro’s own sister, who openly doubted Valentina at the Tell All, questioning how she could afford so many trips without a “sponsor.” The same question hung over Chantel’s own wedding — who actually showed up for Chantel — and it has never been publicly answered.
So Who Actually Gets the Invite?
No date, no venue, no guest list yet — only a repost and a fight. But ten years on, every name here is still a live wire.
So when Pedro and Valentina finally set their date, whose name belongs on the invitation first — Chantel’s, for the closure, or Lidia’s, for the blessing? And if only one of them can sit in the front row, who gets the seat?
