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" Ashley Hebert got her fairytale ending on this week&amp;#039;s Bachelorette finale when she accepted a proposal from JP Rosenbaum in the beautiful setting of Fiji. The dental student had introduced both JP and fellow suitor Ben Flajnik to her family on the island, but in the end it was construction worker JP who won her heart. Ashley and JP spoke to reporters today about their relationship, wedding plans and hopes for the future: Ashley, when did you know JP was the one? &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s such a hard question to answer because there is so much going on, you&amp;#039;re dating other men and you continue to date them. I think pretty early on my heart was pulling me in that direction, but I wanted to use all the time I had to be sure this relationship was one that would last. Early on, with everything that happened with Bentley, I wanted to make sure my radar was on so I continued to date the other guys, but my heart was pulling me in that direction for a long time.&amp;quot; JP, how would you rate your confidence going into the proposal? &amp;quot;I was confident - and I don&amp;#039;t want to sound cocky here - after our Hong Kong date that I&amp;#039;d be the last guy standing. I knew what we had was special, and that there was really no way she could have that with anybody else. I think I even said in the finale she may love both of us but she can only be in love with one of us. I&amp;#039;d felt that for weeks.&amp;quot; What was going through your heads when JP was proposing?Ashley: &amp;quot;I think I was just waiting to hear what he would have to say. As a woman or as a girl you always dream of this moment, so I guess I was living in it and just wanted to hear everything he had to say.&amp;quot;JP: &amp;quot;I was so comfortable. It felt right and it naturally flowed. When I was standing there with her next to me it was like nobody else was around; that&amp;#039;s how it had always been for us from the start. I wasn&amp;#039;t nervous. It all felt natural and I was happy with how it turned out.&amp;quot;  JP, with everything that happened with Ashley&amp;#039;s sister did you ever think about telling Ashley you loved her but not proposing at that time? &amp;quot;Nothing that happened between me and her sister had any influence on my decision to propose. I always knew I would propose, I guess pretty much two or three weeks prior I knew it would happen. I was just afraid her sister&amp;#039;s comments and opinions would influence the way she thought about me. I was hoping she would trust her gut and heart and not really listen to her sister, and it turned out alright!&amp;quot; Ashley, what would you have thought if JP hadn&amp;#039;t proposed? &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s an easy question. I always said if I left with somebody I love it wouldn&amp;#039;t matter if I was engaged or not. Obviously going into it you go through so much that you hope to be at a point where you feel comfortable enough to be engaged, but with JP, I cared about him so much that if he wasn&amp;#039;t ready for that, I was prepared to just leave in a relationship and continue our relationship outside the show. We didn&amp;#039;t need the engagement.&amp;quot; JP, have you had a chance to talk to Ashley&amp;#039;s sister since Fiji apart from at After The Final Rose? &amp;quot;The first time we got to speak after we got back from Fiji she was so sweet and supportive, it was a different person I was talking to. Now it&amp;#039;s ancient history. We are close.&amp;quot; Ashley, did your sister&amp;#039;s reaction to JP ever make you reconsider whether you should choose him? &amp;quot;To be honest, I knew I would follow my gut and not let anybody else influence me. That&amp;#039;s what I loved about this whole journey - I got to trust myself. The truth is I knew my sister was being tough and she was so stubborn she&amp;#039;d never take it back, even if she had a change of heart. I knew she would grow to love him once she saw us together and I had no doubt she would see what I felt and things would be alright, and they are. They are close now and actually joke about it.&amp;quot;  You&amp;#039;ve been able to spend time together in private while the show was airing. How will you avoid the pitfalls of other Bachelor couples who haven&amp;#039;t had lasting relationships?Ashley: &amp;quot;We were able to meet up every other week but I believe other contestants have done the same thing so that&amp;#039;s nothing different to what they have done. I don&amp;#039;t really have an answer to that because I don&amp;#039;t know what they did, who they were or how their relationships were. I can tell you that the show brought us together; it built a really good relationship. We confided in each other, we learned to communicate, we dealt with jealousy, insecurity, and so many things early on that we built this great foundation. Now we&amp;#039;re out here in the real world and we&amp;#039;ve been engaged for two months but feel like we&amp;#039;ve been together for years!&amp;quot;JP: &amp;quot;We really feel like the hardest part of this is behind us. We&amp;#039;ve had to experience things that no-one else on the planet will have to experience and we&amp;#039;ve gotten past some pretty rough times. We have come through on the other side and we couldn&amp;#039;t be happier about starting our life together.&amp;quot; Have you had a chance to speak to any of the former Bachelors or Bachelorettes?Ashley: &amp;quot;I definitely spoke to Ali [Fedotowsky]; she was somebody who was really helpful thoughout all the hard times. She definitely gave me advice. The most important thing is she&amp;#039;s been through it. I think she faced a little bit of criticism and she&amp;#039;d had similar things happen to her... She had great words of wisdom and her relationship with Roberto [has obviously been a success].&amp;quot; What are your plans for the next couple of months?Ashley: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s all kind of up in the air right now. I know I&amp;#039;ll be moving to New York within the next month or so and finishing up school at the same time. After that, I might take some time, apply for my licence, and allow the dust to settle, then probably start practicing. I really don&amp;#039;t even know where I will be practicing; it&amp;#039;s all up in the air right now. There&amp;#039;s so much going on!&amp;quot; How are you feeling about moving in together in New York?Ashley: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m really excited to first of all just be with him because obviously we&amp;#039;ve been separate for a while. I have no hesitation about moving in; I definitely have no anxiety about it. I think we&amp;#039;re ready for that. I don&amp;#039;t have a lot of shoes luckily but he cleaned out a closet for me, isn&amp;#039;t that sweet? We&amp;#039;ll get our own place with a big closet but for now he cleaned out this closet for me!&amp;quot; Have you started thinking about wedding plans?JP: &amp;quot;We haven&amp;#039;t given any serious thought to it just because we have so much going on with her finishing school, moving up here to New York, finding a job, moving into a new place... We won&amp;#039;t wait five years to get married but we&amp;#039;ll take one step at a time and once things settle down then we will start talking about things seriously. As far as having it done on TV, we talk about it in jest sometimes but no real thought has gone into it.&amp;quot;  Has life been a fairytale since filming wrapped or have you had arguments?Ashley: &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know if we&amp;#039;ve had arguments. We definitely have disagreed on certain things and viewed things differently, but we talk through that and we get through it. We have a fairytale - I&amp;#039;m not going to lie, we really do have a fairytale. But, like the world saw, there are ups and downs. He had some tough times in Taiwan, I had tough times early on. It&amp;#039;s not perfect but it is great. It&amp;#039;s a real relationship. It&amp;#039;s not like we&amp;#039;re in la la land, you know?&amp;quot;JP: &amp;quot;Once filming wrapped and we went back to our homes and were able to be us, even though we were hidden from everybody and in secrecy, nothing faded, everything got stronger. Any build-up based on being in Fiji or going on crazy dates or if you&amp;#039;re worried things won&amp;#039;t be the same once you leave, it just got better. Once we got through that I knew it would be great.&amp;quot;  The Bachelorette airs on ABC. &amp;amp;gt; The Bachelorette finale: Ashley Hebert chooses her winner&amp;amp;gt; The Bachelorette&amp;#039;s Ashley: &amp;#039;I can&amp;#039;t explain my happiness&amp;#039; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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