“Farmer Wants a Wife”’s Brett and Quinn Tease Engagement Timing 7 Months After Meeting on the Show (Exclusive)

The 'Farmer Wants a Wife' couple tells PEOPLE how they’ve navigated seven months of long-distance dating

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• Farmer Wants a Wife’s Brett says he knew Quinn was “going to be it” for him within the first two weeks of filming
• The couple has spent the past seven months maintaining a long-distance relationship between Tennessee and Idaho
• While engagement and a potential move have been discussed, Brett and Quinn say they’re focused on enjoying their relationship and seeing where life takes them next

Brett Maverick and Quinn Guterman aren't rushing down the aisle just yet — but they're not ruling out a future together either.

After finding love on season 3 of Farmer Wants a Wife, the couple tells PEOPLE they're focused on continuing to build their relationship in the real world before making any major decisions about engagement, marriage or moving across the country.

“We know that we like each other. We like being with each other, and we just kind of take it day by day,” Brett, 36, tells PEOPLE.

The couple's romance blossomed throughout the season, with Brett ultimately choosing Quinn, 26, during the finale. Looking back, the Tennessee farmer says he realized she was the one after a pivotal trip during filming.

“For me, I don't know if there was a specific moment,” Brett says. “After Maryland, I think that was kind of when it really hit. And then it just continued to grow as time went on. But yeah, I think after Maryland, that's kind of when I knew that it was Quinn that I was going to pick.”

Quinn, a medical aesthetician from Buhl, Idaho, had a similar realization.

“After Maryland, I realized I had missed him during that stint of time while we were going to Maryland,” she says. “We'd been around each other a lot, obviously filming. So I think after that, I was like, ‘Oh, I missed him when I wasn't around him.' And it just kind of progressed from there.”

Brett, who entered the process as one of the older farmers this season, says his life experience helped him recognize their connection quickly.

“When you have enough life experience, you can kind of see people for who they are pretty quickly,” he says. “So I think that probably did help a lot to know that Quinn was going to be it for me within the first two weeks.”

While viewers watched their romance unfold on-screen, both say some of their favorite moments happened away from the cameras.

One scene that stands out to Brett involved a flirtatious conversation that fans only saw a small portion of.

“The conversation where Quinn was winking at me,” he recalls. “That whole conversation was a lot of fun, but you only got to see two minutes of it. The whole talk probably lasted 45 minutes.”

Over the course of the show's roughly six-to-seven-week filming schedule, Brett says the couple's connection deepened both on-screen and during the rare moments they were able to spend together away from production. 

“You didn't have people kind of in your ear about certain things. You could just kind of be yourself,” Brett explains.

For Quinn, one of those moments involved a bag of Goldfish crackers.

“I was walking out and had a bag of Goldfish tucked in my sweatpants because I was going off to do something,” she says with a laugh. “He clocked it immediately and made some really funny joke.”

“It was just a quick two-second thing, but I was like, ‘Oh, okay. He's funny and he can kind of banter with me a little bit,' ” she adds.

Since filming wrapped around Thanksgiving, the pair have been navigating a long-distance relationship, with Quinn returning home to Idaho while Brett remains in Tennessee.

“I got right back to work,” Quinn says. “It's a lot of Brett coming out here and hanging out. I've gone out to Tennessee a couple times and hung out. But mostly it's FaceTime constantly and working.”

Brett agrees, adding that their schedules have also included promotional appearances connected to the show.

“It's me going out to Idaho and just hanging out while I can,” he says.

As for what's next, the couple says they've discussed the future but aren't putting pressure on themselves to follow a specific timeline.

Asked whether engagement, marriage and kids have been topics of conversation, Brett admits they've touched on them, but not extensively.

“You'll talk to the younger guys and they'll probably jump all over that question,” he says with a laugh. “But for us, we know that we like each other. We like being with each other, and we just kind of take it day by day.”

“We know it's going to be difficult as long as we're long-distance,” he continues. “But we take it for what it is, and we like being with each other. We take advantage of the moments that we can be together.”

A move to Tennessee also remains a possibility for Quinn, though she says no decisions have been made yet.

“Moving out to Tennessee is definitely not off the table,” she says. “But I have a lot going on at home.”

For now, the couple is focused on continuing to learn more about each other outside the unique circumstances of reality television.

“We know we like hanging out one-on-one. We know we get along with each other's friends and family, and we've done that part,” Quinn says. “But we haven't been able to go out and do fun things and experience life on that side yet.”

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“So I think we're excited for that and to see what comes after that," she says.

You can watch all four seasons of Farmer Wants a Wife on Hulu.

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