Actress Jessica Serfaty is officially off the market, getting engaged to her Italian billionaire boyfriend Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio.
The 32-year-old Days of Our Lives star and the 28-year-old Del Vecchio, who serves as the chief strategy officer for his family’s company EssilorLuxottica, (which owns Ray-Ban, Oakley, Sunglass Hut, and Persol), first met in 2017 and started dating a few years later.
The actress shared new snaps of the couple on a boat, showing off the massive engagement ring on Instagram.
‘HE SAID YES!!! just kidding, I SAID YES! WE SAID YES,’ she said in the caption of her post, while tagging her new fiance.
They also both opened up to People about the engagement, with Serfaty joking that they had just been talking about others’ engagement stories.
Engaged: Actress Jessica Serfaty is officially off the market, getting engaged to her Italian billionaire boyfriend Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio
Snaps: The 32-year-old Days of Our Lives star and the 28-year-old Del Vecchio, who serves as the chief strategy officer for his family’s company EssilorLuxottica, (which owns Ray-Ban, Oakley, Sunglass Hut, and Persol), first met in 2017 and started dating a few years later
The Rock: The actress shared new snaps of the couple on a boat, showing off the massive engagement ring on Instagram
‘The week before Leo asked for my hand, we had been laughing about one another’s past engagement stories,’ Serfaty said.
‘Poking fun at all the do’s and don’ts that come along with proposals. I was completely taken by surprise when he dropped to one knee,’ she added.
‘I remember seeing the joy in Leo’s face when he couldn’t hold it in any longer. He teared up at the end. (Sorry Leo, but I had too!) It was spontaneous, exciting and beautiful,’ she admitted.
The engagement happened at the Conca del Songo restaurant on Italy’s Amalfi coast, with Serfaty joking she will have to ‘tread water a little harder’ but admitted the ring is ‘flawless.’
She added of the ring, ‘I never pictured a yellow diamond, then again, I’ve never been a traditional ring kinda-gal. Leo’s taste is timeless and now after having it, I’d never want anything different. It’s beautiful.’
Serfaty also opened up about the first time she met her future husband, way back in 2017 at the Cannes Film Festival.
‘We were on a boat, and he was dancing. He is such a good dancer by the way! We briefly met,’ she added.
‘It wasn’t until a couple years later that we saw each other again. We spent five days along with friends laughing and dancing until the sun came up,’ she continued.
Engagement stories: ‘The week before Leo asked for my hand, we had been laughing about one another’s past engagement stories,’ Serfaty said
Spontaneous: ‘I remember seeing the joy in Leo’s face when he couldn’t hold it in any longer. He teared up at the end. (Sorry Leo, but I had too!) It was spontaneous, exciting and beautiful,’ she admitted
Yellow diamond: She added of the ring, ‘I never pictured a yellow diamond, then again, I’ve never been a traditional ring kinda-gal. Leo’s taste is timeless and now after having it, I’d never want anything different. It’s beautiful’
First meeting: Serfaty also opened up about the first time she met her future husband, way back in 2017 at the Cannes Film Festival
She added the second meeting was, ‘the moment I knew something more was happening. I didn’t want to leave! I saw him a few times in between the next couple of years. It was always warm, but it wasn’t our time. We were both in relationships. So cut to this year, Leo wrote me and said he had been thinking about me and asked if I was single. I was. And just like that… Everything else is history.’
Del Vecchio had previously been married before this relationship, while Serfaty was engaged to Firefly CEO Kaan Gunay.
‘The territory of ‘Engagement Land’ is one I’ve visited before. This time, it’s right. It’s the right time, the right one,’ she said.
‘So the feeling is a feeling of being elated to find home. It’s joy, is wild energy, it’s calming and comforting,’ she revealed.
