Grant Ellis and Juliana Pasquarosa are shipping up to Boston.
“It wasn’t a really tough conversation,” Juliana, 28, told Us Weekly the day after the Monday, March 24, finale of The Bachelor about Grant, 31, relocating to her hometown. “[He] knew that I am very close with my family and that it would be hard for me to move away from them. It doesn’t mean that we’re not gonna go to Houston and visit your family either, but you also have family in New Jersey, so the move felt pretty easy and pretty straightforward.”
Juliana noted that the twosome are leaning toward a “long engagement” because they have to “live life together” before tying the knot.
“We have to do some normal things where it feels exciting to plan that,” she said. “We are coming down from such a crazy high right now. I don’t wanna just try and keep it going — I really want to plateau a bit and just live normally for a minute and then we can start planning and have fun and do all those things.”
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Grant added that he didn’t hesitate when it came to moving for Juliana.
“With Jules, her family is her lifeline,” he told Us. “That’s what makes her her. So to be like, ‘Oh, let’s go here, go here.’ No, we are gonna [go] where it makes her happy and I’m going to adjust because I just want to see her happy.”
Prior to going public as fiancés during Monday’s finale, Grant and Juliana were only able to see each other in “happy couple” weekends organized by the show. Since the duo bonded on the show over the piano (and Grant has gone on to release singles of his own), Us had to ask if those get-togethers were musical.
“We had a piano there,” Grant said. “People should be expressive however you want. Some people paint, some people drive cars — you just gotta do what you want to do. That’s the way I live life.”
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Juliana confirmed that they “definitely jammed out.”
“Music is a big thing in my life and it’s a big thing in your life,” she said to Grant while chatting with Us. “We played [his song] ‘Party Girls’ a couple times, but then we just went back to our regular everyday music.”
Grant and Juliana got engaged after he ended things with runner-up Litia Garr, who said she was blindsided by his decision.
“When you’re the Bachelor or the Bachelorette and you’re on a public platform, you’re trying to set an example, you have so many factors that come into play,” Grant told Us about being “torn” at the end. “I knew what my heart wanted, but I also was in a situation where there was somebody else there and I had a relationship.”
Things started to change for him when he met Juliana’s family.
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“I started to develop that distance a little bit after hometowns and put together, whose family I would fit with more, the environment that I wanted, the vibe that I wanted and the relationship that I wanted,” Grant said. “And then from there, it’s just working up the courage and strength to have to make a decision after you’ve built such a strong relationship with somebody and then you have to let ’em down.”
