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Dolores Catania Engaged, Kids Engaged Too!

Real Housewives of New Jersey star Dolores Catania couldn't have dreamed up this very real scenario even on her show.Catania, 55, told People that being engaged...

Dolores Catania Engaged, Kids Engaged Too!
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Bintano News

March 27, 2026

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Real Housewives of star couldn't have dreamed up this very real scenario even on her show.

Catania, 55, told People that being engaged and planning a wedding at the same as her son Frankie, 27, and daughter Gabrielle, 30, is 'like out of movie.'

'Who would have thought, when they are little, and they're running around, and, you know, you're playing mom, who would think?' Catania told the outlet.

'It's not the natural order to be engaged at the same time as your kids, however, it's a very happy household.'

The reality star, who shares her kids with ex-husband Frank Catania, got engaged to her boyfriend Paul 'Paulie' Connell on November 10 of last year.

She was 'ecstatic' when and an 11-carat center stone at the Apple Store in Woodcliff, New Jersey, where they met nearly five years ago while waiting in line to get their phones fixed.

Dolores Catania said that being engaged and planning a wedding at the same as her son Frankie, 27, and daughter Gabrielle, 30, is 'like out of movie' (pictured on March 24)

Paul 'Paulie' Connell proposed to the reality star on November 10 last year at the Apple Store in Woodcliff, New Jersey, where they met nearly five years ago while waiting in line to get their phones fixed (pictured on March 24)

Catania's happy moment came nearly nine months after her son Frankie .

As if that were not enough for the mom-of-two to digest, daughter Gabrielle accepted her 31-year-old partner Mike Tallia's proposal on a snow-capped mountain in Aspen, Colorado on March 19 of this year.

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Gabrielle's engagement ring is a 5.03-carat, oval-cut diamond ring from John Anthony Jewelers, the same luxury jeweler where Paulie got Catania's ring from.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey star showed off her 15-carat diamond ring with an 11-carat center stone at a Bravo event in Las Vegas just days after the proposal

Catania's happy news came just nine months after her son Frankie, 30, popped the question to Nicole Periccho 

As if that were not enough for Catania to digest, daughter Gabrielle accepted Mike Tallia's proposal on a snow-capped mountain in Aspen on March 19 of this year

Catania told People she would love her 'dream wedding' to be a 'big party' with 'all' of her Real Housewives co-stars

Catania would love her 'dream wedding' to be a 'big party' with 'all' of her Real Housewives co-stars.

'Paul and I would envision a big New Year's Eve party - informal, a bunch of people having a good time all night celebrating with us,' she shared.

Meanwhile, Catania is preparing her children for the good times and the hard times that walk hand-in-hand with marriage.

'The biggest advice I told them was, "In the hardest of times, can you picture this person standing by you?"' she recalled. 'I also told them both, "I’ll never let you fall on your face. Just because you're getting married, doesn't mean I'm not your mother. Now I have four kids.'

She added, 'I told them, "You also marry the family," and both of their families are everything I could have prayed for. They are wonderful.'

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