Although it took some time for Zooey Deschanel's kids to approve of HGTV's Jonathan Scott, the proposal was a joyous time for the whole family. Scott described Deschanel's daughter Elsie's reaction to reading the banner she and her brother were holding: "When Elsie turned around and read the sign, she immediately goes, 'Did you just get married?' And we're like, 'Well, no, not yet. But we got engaged!'"
Scott said that Elsie's follow-up question was whether she could be a flower girl at the couple's wedding, which, of course, was a request they happily accepted. "It was really sweet to have them there, too," Scott recalled to People. Not present at the proposal but equally excited about the engagement were Deschanel's parents, who had known about — and approved of — Scott's plans for months leading up to their trip to Scotland.
The "Property Brothers" carpenter said Deschanel's parents already considered him family, and his bride-to-be has long been vocal about Scott's willingness to be a helpful son-in-law to her folks. "He is really sweet to my parents, and whenever they have any kind of thing that needs fixing, he just goes over and fixes stuff for them," Deschanel told People years before their engagement in October 2021.
