Bobby Brown is planning to wed again after confirming he and manager/girlfriend Alicia Etheredge are an item.

Brown was with Etheredge when he reportedly suffered a minor heart attack last year - but it has taken him almost a year to confirm the romance.

Now he tells Sister 2 Sister magazine he's mad about Etheredge.

He says, "That one (relationship) is gonna work 'cause I'm gonna make it work."

Etheredge has always maintained she and Brown are longtime friends and business partners - but she hopes to be the one when Brown chooses to settle down again.

In an interview last year, she said, "I think that Bobby is a big romantic and really does believe in love.

"His parents are still married after all these years and I think that he will find that again."