Bachelor Alum Abigail Heringer Reveals She and Noah Erb Will Marry This Fall in Oklahoma (Exclusive)

Abigail Heringer and Noah Erb may have met in paradise, but they’re tying the knot in Oklahoma!

The Bachelor in Paradise stars, who announced their engagement in August 2023, are saying “I do” this fall in Tulsa, the couple exclusively reveals to PEOPLE.

And it’s a rather fitting choice for the “intimate” ceremony, given that the pair has already celebrated several milestones in the city — including buying their first home, Erb, 29, announced in January.

"We knew we wanted to tie the knot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where we currently live, because it's where we spent the majority of our time when we were in hiding while Paradise was airing,” Heringer tells PEOPLE of the pair’s autumn nuptials.

"It really was the place where our relationship blossomed and where we fell in love,” she says. “We're so excited to show our friends and family how special this place is to us and to highlight Tulsa as a city.”

The 29-year-old reality star, who became the first woman in Bachelor Nation history to use a cochlear implant in season 25 of The Bachelor and met Erb on Bachelor in Paradise season 7, continues, “I think some of my friends thought I was crazy when I told them I was moving to Oklahoma, so I'm just excited to show them the life that Noah and I have been creating here and just how special Tulsa is!"

Adds Heringer: “The venues we picked for our welcome party and wedding are some of our most special places in town and we just can't wait to kick off the wedding celebrations!”

And while Heringer prepares for the fall wedding, she’s also renovating the couple’s Tulsa home — and gearing up to release her first book, The Deaf Girl: A Memoir of Hearing Loss, Hope, and Fighting Against the Odds.

The memoir, which is slated to hit shelves in September, shares the trailblazing Bachelor alum’s “journey of navigating life with a profound hearing loss and her transformation from merely accepting her disability to embracing it wholeheartedly,” per an official synopsis.

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Its title, The Deaf Girl, is a reference to Heringer’s childhood, as well as an effort to reclaim a so-called insult once hurled at her, she says.

“Growing up deaf and introverted, she dreaded being the center of attention, fearing her disability would burden those around her,” the synopsis says. “Among her hearing peers, she felt like an outsider, simply labeled as ‘the deaf girl.’ And after receiving a cochlear implant at the age of two, she subsequently struggled to find her place in the Deaf community too. Caught in between two worlds and grappling to define her identity as a deaf woman, Abigail felt like she belonged in neither.”

In her own words she hopes to use the memoir to “empower others to embrace their truth, to stand tall in the face of adversity, and to live boldly and unapologetically in who they are. Just as I have learned to do.”