Eric Stonestreet and his fiancée want their wedding to take place in the house of their dreams (exclusive)

Eric Stonestreet and his fiancee Lindsay Schweitzer They already have their wedding venue; They are just waiting for the construction to finish!

Stonestreet, 53, said he and Schweitzer still want to get married in their dream home, but they are still waiting for Kansas City, Kansas. property to be ready for the wedding. He modern family The star recently spoke to PEOPLE about her partnership with child Smart smoke and combination alarms (smoke + CO) with Ring. During the conversation, he confirmed that he and Schweitzer, 48, are “in no rush” to celebrate their wedding because they are “building this house together.”

“We talk about [the wedding] all the time, how we would do it, where we would sit and how Sofia [Vergara] [would be] dancing on our lawn,” he said of his modern family co-star. “Whatever it is, we think about it all the time.”

“From the beginning when we started building the house, [the wedding] “It was right at the top of the list of things we imagined would happen here,” he said.

“We are doing this late in our lives, building this house. We immediately started thinking about all the memories we were going to have there with the kids and family. And, of course, the wedding is one of the things.”

“We definitely want to have a celebration with all of our friends,” the Emmy winner said. “But it was, ‘We’re getting married.’ And then it was like, ‘Oh my God, we have this land.’ Let’s build a house. Do you want a wedding or a house? Can we do both at the same time? And being as cool as he is, he says, ‘I’d rather build a house with you.’ And I say, ‘Me too.'”

Stonestreet continued: “When we get to the end, we want to take a breath.”

In addition to imagining Vergara dancing on his lawn during the future wedding, Stonestreet revealed that he and Schweitzer made sure there were spaces for guests to stay, including Vergara and her modern family co-stars.

“We wanted to create spaces that we could invite Jesse Tyler Ferguson home. We wanted to create spaces where, if Sofia “She is passing through Kansas City, we have a great place for her.”

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Stonestreet proposed to Schweitzer in 2021 after the couple dated for more than five years. The special moment was caught on camera, and Stonestreet explained to PEOPLE, “I tricked her into thinking a company wanted to partner with the two of us.”

“That would make her do her hair and makeup and make her feel pretty, and as beautiful as she naturally is,” she said. “So I put the camera on her. “She had no idea what was going to happen and that was the plan.”

Shortly after Stonestreet proposed, he told PEOPLE in 2021 that “He wasn’t going to find a better partner in life than Lindsay.“.

“So it made more sense. And I had taken advantage of my old days.” He added: “Everyone else, let me put it this way, who knows Lindsay, said, ‘What are you waiting for?’ So it was time,” he added.