Vanderpump Rules Alum Kristen Doute Is Engaged to Luke Broderick

Wedding bells are ringing for Kirsten Doute and Luke Broderick! 

The Valley costars got engaged on Wednesday, Sept. 4 after Broderick popped the question while the couple were filming the second season of the Bravo reality show, a source tells PEOPLE. 

According to Us Weekly, who first broke the news, Broderick popped the question with a “4.27 carat Emerald cut diamond, plus a half carat worth of diamonds on the band and hidden halo” while the pair were out on a boat in Maui, Hawaii, earlier this week.

The couple’s engagement comes after Doute, 41, shared a series of loved up snaps of the pair on Aug. 9 with the caption, “find the one you can’t live without 💫.”

The Vanderpump Rules alum met Broderick at a friend’s wedding where he was a groomsman in June 2022, two weeks after her split from her ex Alex Menache. Opening up about their meeting during the premiere of The Valley, Kristen said, “I thought he’s sweet, he’s kind, he’s funny and then we had sex behind a tent and the rest is history.” 

The duo kept their romance under wraps for several months and started a joint podcast together called Balancing Act with Kristen Doute and Luke Broderick in November 2022. The following month, Doute announced their relationship during an episode of the podcast.

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After splitting his time between Colorado and Los Angeles for the first two years of their relationship, Broderick and Doute then moved into an apartment together in Valley Village, California in March 2024. 

The two gave Bravo’s The Daily Dish a tour of the apartment, where they live with their two dogs and a gecko.

Doute and Broderick have also been open about their desire to start a family together.

In late 2023, the duo revealed on their podcast that they had experienced a miscarriage at six weeks.

During the episode, Doute reflected on the “terrifying” pregnancy loss, but said she was still feeling positive about the future. 

“The only silver lining, the fact that we’ve now been digesting this for the last four or five days, is that I know once Luke and I are past this, we can try again,” she said. “And we were very lucky and very fortunate that we got pregnant so quickly. We were so so lucky because it could have gone a different way for me at my age.”

“I haven’t gone through IVF, I haven’t frozen my eggs. I haven’t done anything. I just think there’s something in God’s plan,” she continued, adding that the couple are “very hopeful to have a very healthy pregnancy the next time around.”

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In a May 2024 interview, Doute also told PEOPLE that she and Broderick are still very “hopeful” that a baby is on the cards for them and that they were ready to start trying for a baby again.

“I mean, that does give us hope,” the reality TV star told PEOPLE. “I think it’s not a false sense of hope. We, at that point, had only been trying for a couple of months and we were fortunate enough.”

“So we’re just back on the train trying and fingers crossed. We’re doing right every month exactly how we should be doing it. So yeah, we’re just hopeful,” she added.