The season 9 American Idol winner popped the question July 16 while on a private yacht at Disney World in Orlando, under a fireworks-filled sky. 

DeWyze told People: “I’m excited!” 

Lee met Walsh last October while shooting a video for his single Sweet Serendipity. “We were casting and I saw her and said, ‘Let’s go with her.’ I thought she was cute.” Guess that’s the best kind of sweet serendipity there could be.

DeWyze spoke of his first date with Walsh: “We hung out and we went to a Lakers game on our first date. She’s a Lakers fan and I’m a Chicago Bulls fan and we just clicked out of the gate.”

The couple has only been dating for 8 months but that does not cause concern for DeWyze who says: “When you know, you know. We both feel that way. We don’t need to be together 20 years before we figure it out.”

You can watch Lee and his fiance in this video of Sweet Serendipity where it all started: