This Farmer Wants a Wife! Matt and Olivia announce their engagement
"Here is to another chapter."
Farmer Wants a Wife’s Matt Young and Olivia Benic have announced that they’re “taking a leap to [the] altar”, and are now engaged!
The pair found love on the 2023, and have gone from strength to strength to ever since.
Taking to Instagram to share the news on November 8, Matt got down on one knee in Cairns.
“Farmer DOES wants a wife haha ,” they wrote in a joint post.
“We have built a beautiful life over the last four years. Taking the leap to alter our lives, buying a home, having a little one, and trusting each other through the ups and downs. Here is to another chapter. 🤍”
The news comes two years after the pair revealed they quietly welcomed their son, Henry, into the world in August 2024.
They announced the update with our sister publication Woman’s Day after keeping the pregnancy private.
“After being on Farmer, we realised we wanted to keep some things private. We just wanted to keep this pregnancy for us,” Olivia said at the time.
“We told our close circle when we were about 15 weeks and no-one said anything. No-one dobbed us in [laughs].”
From Farmer Wants a Wife to the rest of their lives
Since wrapping up their time on the show, Matt and Olivia have publicly shared their relationship journey with fans.
In March 2024 the pair cemented their love by purchasing a property together. At the time they shared a photo outside their new abode writing: “Soooo we did a thingggg…!”
During his time on Farmer Wants A Wife, Matt was extremely worried about potentially having to do long distance with Olivia – who didn’t want to move from her hometown Wollongong until she at least finished her degree.
Despite this hurdle, Matt couldn’t deny the strong feelings he had for Olivia and chose her over Annabelle during the final decision.
“Olivia, I started this experience hoping to find someone to share the rest of my life with, I wanted to find someone I see myself marrying, seeing myself having kids with and someone I see myself growing old with,” Matt said.
“I have fallen in love with you and I want to share my future with you.”
Things then moved quickly for the couple. A few weeks after filming ended, Olivia made the decision to move to Canberra where Matt had started a new job.
“I ended up moving, so we’re in Canberra throughout the week and Bookham on the weekend,” Olivia told 7Life at the time.
The couple added that things were going “really well” for them, and it was at that point that they started talking about next steps.
“We’re having those conversations about what the future holds and what the next steps look like – looking towards marriage and kids – and I think we’re both on the same page,” Matt said.
As one of the most successful dating shows, the Farmer Wants A Wife stars have joined a long list of couples who are still together after meeting on screen. And we love watching their love unfold off-screen.
