Vanness Wu engaged?

Vanness Wu and his girlfriend Arissa are rumored to have gotten engaged just last month.  Appledaily reported that the couple kept a low profile and only invited their parents to dinner.

33 year-old Vanness and 29 year-old Arissa first met 5 years ago when she filmed his My Kingdom MV back in 2006.  They started to date but broke up after a year.  Then they got back together in April 2010, but reportedly broke up again 5 months later because Vanness “vowed to abstain from sex before marriage” as a devoted Christian. However, they were together again early last year and Arissa was spotted going to his place and spending the night there in July.  They were also seen at the airport leaving for a trip in January of this year. Their relationship has been very stable ever since, although Van Ness has generally avoided talking about his girlfriend in front of the media. 

Arissa reportedly told her friends that she was engaged last month.  However, Vanness’s manager, Katie, denied, “I don’t think so.  He’s very busy filming a drama right now, so he has no time at all.”

The media reminded her that getting engaged doesn’t take as much time as getting married.  Katie replied, “He takes both engagement and marriage very seriously.  Friends around him would definitely have been advised about it, but I didn’t hear anything from him.”

Vanness clarified that he did not get engaged last month.  He only took two days off to go to Korea to promote his drama.  He responded through his manager, "If we're considered engaged just because our parents had dinner together, then maybe I'm the parent.  They often have dinners together.  If I really get engaged, it would definitely be well planned out.  It wouldn't be this casual."

Source: Appledaily, UDN