“The Hills” Alum Lo Bosworth Will Wear $1,000 Dress in 'Micro-Wedding' to Fiancé Dom Natale

Lo Bosworth and her fiancé Dom Natale are “thrilled” astir their upcoming "micro-wedding."

During nan Thursday, June 12, section of Northwestern Mutual’s A Better Way to Money podcast, The Hills alum, 38, said candidly to Lauren Yoder, nan company’s VP of Product Management, and big Jennifer Borget astir why she and her husband-to-be decided to take meaningful moments complete throwing an elaborate statement for their large day.

According to Bosworth, nan thought came to nan mates aft a “spur of nan infinitesimal engagement party” that they held astatine a section dive bar. 

“We had 1 of nan champion nights of our lives astatine this dive barroom pinch our friends that we had gathered together past minute, drinking beers,” nan erstwhile reality prima said.

The low-key, but typical evening made them wonderment if they were “making a correction having a huge, fancy, costly wedding.”

“Ultimately, we decided to displacement our priorities because we would for illustration to commencement a family. We would for illustration to bargain a location and those things costs money and you person to scheme for your future,” Bosworth said. 

“And truthful we are going to person a small, family-only wedding this summer. We’re gonna get joined successful Laguna Beach,” she continued. 

Bosworth added that aft nan wedding, she and Natale scheme to “go up to my parents' location and person a ceremony successful nan backyard pinch conscionable family and support it really typical and meaningful.” 

For their “micro wedding,” nan bride-to-be opted for a store-bought dress alternatively of a civilization one.

“I bought [an] off-the-rack wedding dress disconnected nan net for for illustration $1,000, and I’m thrilled pinch it! It fits great. You don’t request to spell civilization designer,” Bosworth said, though she admitted, “If I was younger, I would’ve gone for nan bigger wedding.”

She besides revealed really she and nan investor began dating. 

“I americium personification who met my partner later successful life,” Bosworth said. “We met erstwhile we were some 37, and I person ever been personification that wanted to get joined and wanted to person a family, and I spent a large chunk of my 30s single. Which was unexpected for me.” 

After ending a erstwhile relationship, nan laminitis and CEO of Love Wellness said she decided to attraction connected activity for a while.

“I deliberation that I was embarrassed that I was azygous to beryllium honorable pinch you,” she confessed.

“I deliberation that a batch of women who are successful their later 30s benignant of consciousness that way, and it’s not of our ain making. It’s what nine tells us, right? ‘Oh, you’re a spinster now! You are undesirable!’ ” Bosworth said, laughing astatine nan outdated idea. “No, that’s wrong.”

Natale came into her life “after I had done a batch of self-work and therapy and reflection connected my narration status.”

Once she became “really comfortable being alone,” Bosworth revealed to her followers during an Instagram Stories “Ask Me Anything” convention that she was single.

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“Then into nan DMs came Dom’s sisters,” she said, adding, “His family group america up.”

In betwixt laughter, nan podcasters urged others to "wear your azygous badge pinch honor.”

“It’s true! I realized everyone needs to beryllium marking themselves for what they want. If you’re azygous and you want a partner, you person to do nan activity to find a partner,” Bosworth said. “You person to inquire to beryllium group up. You person to spell connected dates. You person to do nan work. You can’t conscionable beryllium successful your location and play connected TikTok."

Natale popped nan mobility in January, Bosworth revealed successful a sentimental Instagram post.

"For you, my darling, it could only beryllium a 'yes.' Thank you for being nan champion that 1 could be, for me. All my love, L," she wrote alongside a black-and-white photograph of her and her fiancé sharing a romanticist embrace.