Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz.Photo: Brooklyn Beckham/Instagram

Brooklyn Beckham, Nicola Peltz

Brooklyn BeckhamandNicola Peltzspent their firstChristmasas an engaged couple the 2020 way — socially distanced.

The duo, whogot engaged over the summer, did not spend the holiday together, as Brooklyn celebrated with momVictoria Beckham, dadDavid Beckham, brothers Romeo, 18, and Cruz, 15, and sister Harper, 9, in the U.K. while Nicola hunkered down with her family in Palm Beach, Florida, a source tells PEOPLE.

Nicola, 25, recently suggested that she and Brooklyn, 21, were spending the holiday apart when she shared a sweet screenshot of a 12-hour FaceTime conversation with her fiancé,Mirror UKreported on Dec. 18. “we fall asleep on the phone together every single night,” she wrote on Instagram.

The couplemost recently spent Thanksgiving togetherwith a small group of Peltz’s family members in Palm Beach. “Nicola spent the majority of the summer with Brooklyn’s family in Europe, but they have since returned to the States. He has been staying in Palm Beach at her family home with Nicola and her family,” a source told PEOPLE at the time.

Beckham popped the question to Peltz in July, and the coupleconfirmed their engagementwith matching Instagram posts shared on July 11.

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“Two weeks ago I asked my soulmate to marry me and she said yes,” Beckhamwrotealongside a romantic engagement snap of the newly-engaged couple.

Beckham’s family was over-the-moon to see that the star found his perfect match. “He’s so happy — they are both so happy,“said Victoriaof her son and the actress,who began dating last fall. “[Nicola] is just wonderful.”

“It’s nice with everything that has gone on this year thatBrooklyn has found his soulmateand the lady he wants to spend the rest of his life with, during this time there’s been so much uncertainty and that everything felt a little bit sad. So we are very happy and very excited,” she added. “What will I wear?”

Beckham and Peltz first started dating in October 2019. They went public with their relationship in January 2020, when the model and photographer wished Peltz a happy 25th birthday on Instagram.

source: people.com