Carlos and Haley met at the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming in the summer of 2017 while working together at a restaurant in Jackson Lake Lodge. After spending the summer together in Wyoming, Carlos flew to Upstate New York the following November to meet Haley's family. During that first visit, Haley and Carlos decided to move to Madrid, Spain, together, where they lived, worked, and traveled from for two years. After separating for one year during the pandemic and being unable to see each other due to the closed borders between Spain and the US, Haley and Carlos reunited in Italy in June 2021. They moved back to Madrid together that summer. On Christmas Eve of 2021, while visiting Haley's family for the holidays in New York, Carlos proposed to Haley in a snow-covered forest where she used to walk every morning during the year they were apart. Haley, completely in shock, said "yes" and the two returned to her family's house where her parents and siblings were waiting to congratulate them. That night, they celebrated with Haley's entire extended family and friends at their annual Christmas Eve party. Carlos and Haley are now spending the year traveling and working across different cities in Europe and the US while planning their wedding and continuing to celebrate with their loved ones.