Five months ago, Pedro Jimeno got down on one knee on an Oahu beach, under a heart-shaped arch of red roses, and asked Valentina Malagon to marry him. He told PEOPLE that with her, he had learned that “peace has a name.” The engagement was announced on June 23, 2026 — and then, nothing. No date. No venue. No countdown. Just one argument nobody in this family can settle: where on earth is this wedding supposed to happen?
Valentina wants Colombia. Pedro wants the Dominican Republic. Both have a case, both have a crowd, and as of today, no wedding date has been publicly confirmed at all. The first fight of this marriage is about the map.
The Case for Colombia: Her Home, Her People, Her Terms
Valentina Malagon, a psychologist from Colombia, makes the simplest argument in the room: a bride should marry at home, surrounded by her own family. She is the one who messaged Pedro first, after spotting his Instagram Story from Colombia. She faced his sister Nicole’s questions at the Single Life season 5 Tell All and has spent the whole relationship adjusting to his world. Team Colombia says the wedding is the one thing that should be hers, without her family crossing borders to watch.
The Case for the Dominican Republic: His Roots, His Mother’s Turf
Pedro’s side is just as personal. The Dominican Republic is where he is from — his home soil, his people, his mother’s ground. A wedding there is not just a venue choice, it is a statement that the groom’s family matters as much as the bride’s. For a man rebuilding his life in Georgia after one of the messiest divorces in 90 Day Fiancé history, marrying on Dominican ground would be a homecoming.
Then the practical side: Lidia Jimeno lives in the Dominican Republic. On her turf, showing up costs her nothing. In Colombia, the mother who still has not blessed this marriage has a ready-made reason to stay home.
The Lidia Question Hiding Inside the Location Fight
Four years after the divorce, Lidia still has not given Pedro her blessing to marry Valentina, and Pedro has said he will marry her with or without Lidia’s blessing. A wedding in the Dominican Republic keeps the door open for Lidia to walk through it. A wedding in Colombia slams it quietly shut. Team Colombia hears a bride asking for one thing of her own; Team DR hears a son trying not to lose his mother over a map pin. Both sides are right — which is why neither side is winning.
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Look at what Chantel Everett did four weeks ago. On October 17, she married Ashley Bowen at Fountainview Mansion in Auburn, Alabama, in front of about 60 guests, according to PEOPLE. No televised ceremony, no months of negotiation over where. She picked a place, kept it small, and got married. It just needed to be hers.
A wedding location is not a peace treaty between two countries. It is one day, in one place, for two people. Chantel proved it works when the couple stops asking the map to solve the family. Pedro and Valentina are still asking the map — and whether the cameras will be there at all is a question nobody can answer until they pick a country first.
So, no fence to sit on: book it tomorrow — Colombia, where Valentina’s family can watch her marry at home, or the Dominican Republic, where Pedro’s roots and his mother Lidia wait? Pick a country. Defend it in the comments.
