To ring in thenew year, there’s one “goal” she’s tackling from the moment the clock strikes 12 a.m.: to kiss Alex Hopkins for the first time at midnightas her husband-to-be.
“I will definitely be partying and kissing my fiancé at midnight!” Alaina, 24, tells PEOPLE while gearing up to perform her latest track"Ladies in the ’90s"duringDick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve with Ryan Seacrest‘s West Coast telecast. “It’s my first time kissing him as my fiancé!”
TheAmerican Idolalum, whogot engagedto longtime boyfriend Hopkins, 23, in July after dating since 2012, adds: “I don’t know what we will be doing because of the performance, but I know we will be celebrating and having a good time wherever we are.”
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New year, newNew Year’s Eveperformance! As a “huge” fan of the annual holiday, the"Road Less Traveled"singer was dreaming while she was awake last year when she watched the sparkling Waterford crystal ball touch down in the middle of Times Square – and witnessed all the love surrounding it – making her want to be “a part of New Years every year now!”
“It was the best thing that’s ever happened to me,” she says. “The moment when everyone is counting down and the ball drops — it’s the craziest thing [because] everyone just erupts, and then there’s this moment of silence where everyone is kissing.”
“It’s the most magical thing I think I’ve ever been a part of,” she continues. “There’s so much craziness in the world right now, but in that moment when the ball dropped in New York City, the whole city was united and you just hug people you don’t know.”
And could a kiss be the mark of two major milestones in Alaina’s new year?
“We haven’t picked a date yet only because we tour so much, and everyone gets married on the weekends and I work on the weekends, so we’re trying to work all that out,” Alaina says about her impending wedding. “We’ll probably have a long engagement because I want to make sure we do everything right and have time to plan it.”
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“I never got to go to college, [so] something that I know nothing about,” she says. “I wouldn’t do anything that has to do with my life.”
Alaina adds about which subject piques her interest: “I would maybe do history or something.”
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve with Ryan Seacrestairs Monday beginning at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
source: people.com
