Paul Bernon and Bethenny Frankel.Photo: Presley Ann/GettyBethenny Frankelseemingly has no plans to marry her fiancéPaul Bernon.On Monday, theReal Housewives of New York Cityalum, 52, suggested that she and Bernon, 45, may never tie the knot after getting engaged in 2021.“I don’t want to build a wedding,” Frankel toldE! News. “I love my life, I love my fiancé. He’s an amazing life partner and I don’t want to sign a contract with someone I love and I don’t want to plan a massive wedding for everybody else and not what we want.“The reality star added, “I like doing what you want, not what society wants you to do.”Frankel shared a similar sentiment back in December during an appearance onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.Frankel and Bernon got engaged in Feb. 2021.Bethenny Frankel/instagram"I don’t know when we’ll get married,” she told hostAndy Cohen, 55, “I’m happily in a partnership and I love him so much but I don’t want to plan a wedding.“TheSkinnygirlfounder also gave an insight into the couple’s relationship and revealed what makes their romance work. She toldE! News, “I ask him, ‘Why are you here?’ and he’ll say to me, ‘I choose to be here. He lives with a clown and he loves comedy, so that’s the answer. I’m smart and funny and he enjoys comedy and he gets the front-row seat to this clown show.“Frankel and Bernonmet on a dating appin 2018. She shared details of their Feb. 2021 engagement for the first last month alongside a series of snapshots and a close-up of her huge diamond ring.Bethenny Frankel’s engagement ring.Bethenny Frankel/InstagramRevealing the proposal took place atLittle Palm Island, a small private hotel on an island in the Florida Keys, Frankel said Bernon popping the question was like a “fantasy date” on the reality showThe Bachelor.She wrote of the proposal, which took place during the sunset, “We went to dinner and he walked me to a beautiful private table on the beach as private and romantic as a fantasy date on ‘the bachelor…’ The intimate details of the story are private but it was a beautiful proposal, in a beautiful setting, with a beautiful ring, to a beautiful man….”Never miss a story — sign up forto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter“Bryn and I and Biggy Smallz are so lucky to have Paul in our lives,” she added, of her daughter and her two dogs. “He is a loving, beautiful, generous, kind, funny and smart good man who we love with all of our hearts.”Frankel shares daughterBryn, 13, with her ex-husband Jason Hoppy. The pair wed in 2010 butseparated in 2012. Frankel filed for divorce the following month, and although they had reacheda financial settlement in 2016, theirdivorce wasn’t finalized untilJanuary 2021. She and Bernon got engaged weeks later.

Paul Bernon and Bethenny Frankel.Photo: Presley Ann/Getty

Paul Bernon and Bethenny Frankel attend the 2022 MTV Movie & TV Awards: UNSCRIPTED at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California and broadcast on June 5, 2022

Bethenny Frankelseemingly has no plans to marry her fiancéPaul Bernon.On Monday, theReal Housewives of New York Cityalum, 52, suggested that she and Bernon, 45, may never tie the knot after getting engaged in 2021.“I don’t want to build a wedding,” Frankel toldE! News. “I love my life, I love my fiancé. He’s an amazing life partner and I don’t want to sign a contract with someone I love and I don’t want to plan a massive wedding for everybody else and not what we want.“The reality star added, “I like doing what you want, not what society wants you to do.”Frankel shared a similar sentiment back in December during an appearance onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.Frankel and Bernon got engaged in Feb. 2021.Bethenny Frankel/instagram"I don’t know when we’ll get married,” she told hostAndy Cohen, 55, “I’m happily in a partnership and I love him so much but I don’t want to plan a wedding.“TheSkinnygirlfounder also gave an insight into the couple’s relationship and revealed what makes their romance work. She toldE! News, “I ask him, ‘Why are you here?’ and he’ll say to me, ‘I choose to be here. He lives with a clown and he loves comedy, so that’s the answer. I’m smart and funny and he enjoys comedy and he gets the front-row seat to this clown show.“Frankel and Bernonmet on a dating appin 2018. She shared details of their Feb. 2021 engagement for the first last month alongside a series of snapshots and a close-up of her huge diamond ring.Bethenny Frankel’s engagement ring.Bethenny Frankel/InstagramRevealing the proposal took place atLittle Palm Island, a small private hotel on an island in the Florida Keys, Frankel said Bernon popping the question was like a “fantasy date” on the reality showThe Bachelor.She wrote of the proposal, which took place during the sunset, “We went to dinner and he walked me to a beautiful private table on the beach as private and romantic as a fantasy date on ‘the bachelor…’ The intimate details of the story are private but it was a beautiful proposal, in a beautiful setting, with a beautiful ring, to a beautiful man….”Never miss a story — sign up forto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter“Bryn and I and Biggy Smallz are so lucky to have Paul in our lives,” she added, of her daughter and her two dogs. “He is a loving, beautiful, generous, kind, funny and smart good man who we love with all of our hearts.”Frankel shares daughterBryn, 13, with her ex-husband Jason Hoppy. The pair wed in 2010 butseparated in 2012. Frankel filed for divorce the following month, and although they had reacheda financial settlement in 2016, theirdivorce wasn’t finalized untilJanuary 2021. She and Bernon got engaged weeks later.

Bethenny Frankelseemingly has no plans to marry her fiancéPaul Bernon.

On Monday, theReal Housewives of New York Cityalum, 52, suggested that she and Bernon, 45, may never tie the knot after getting engaged in 2021.

“I don’t want to build a wedding,” Frankel toldE! News. “I love my life, I love my fiancé. He’s an amazing life partner and I don’t want to sign a contract with someone I love and I don’t want to plan a massive wedding for everybody else and not what we want.”

The reality star added, “I like doing what you want, not what society wants you to do.”

Frankel shared a similar sentiment back in December during an appearance onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.

Frankel and Bernon got engaged in Feb. 2021.Bethenny Frankel/instagram

Bethenny Frankel Engagement

Bethenny Frankel/instagram

“I don’t know when we’ll get married,” she told hostAndy Cohen, 55, “I’m happily in a partnership and I love him so much but I don’t want to plan a wedding.”

TheSkinnygirlfounder also gave an insight into the couple’s relationship and revealed what makes their romance work. She toldE! News, “I ask him, ‘Why are you here?’ and he’ll say to me, ‘I choose to be here. He lives with a clown and he loves comedy, so that’s the answer. I’m smart and funny and he enjoys comedy and he gets the front-row seat to this clown show.”

Frankel and Bernonmet on a dating appin 2018. She shared details of their Feb. 2021 engagement for the first last month alongside a series of snapshots and a close-up of her huge diamond ring.

Bethenny Frankel’s engagement ring.Bethenny Frankel/Instagram

Bethenny Frankel engagement ring

Bethenny Frankel/Instagram

Revealing the proposal took place atLittle Palm Island, a small private hotel on an island in the Florida Keys, Frankel said Bernon popping the question was like a “fantasy date” on the reality showThe Bachelor.

She wrote of the proposal, which took place during the sunset, “We went to dinner and he walked me to a beautiful private table on the beach as private and romantic as a fantasy date on ‘the bachelor…’ The intimate details of the story are private but it was a beautiful proposal, in a beautiful setting, with a beautiful ring, to a beautiful man….”

Never miss a story — sign up forto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter

“Bryn and I and Biggy Smallz are so lucky to have Paul in our lives,” she added, of her daughter and her two dogs. “He is a loving, beautiful, generous, kind, funny and smart good man who we love with all of our hearts.”

Frankel shares daughterBryn, 13, with her ex-husband Jason Hoppy. The pair wed in 2010 butseparated in 2012. Frankel filed for divorce the following month, and although they had reacheda financial settlement in 2016, theirdivorce wasn’t finalized untilJanuary 2021. She and Bernon got engaged weeks later.

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