Guillermo asked for Jessica's hand in marriage in June 2017. He had a plan of how he wanted to propose, and with some help, he started working on his plan. Jessica loves the warm weather so he knew it would be in the summer, and he also knew that she would want her family and friends present. He decided on an outside proposal with white lights and candles. He came up with a plan to get Jessica out of the house. Karina, Jessica’s cousin, invited Jessica to Santana Row for tea time. She told Jessica they were celebrating Mariela’s good grades in school, and Mariela wanted to invite her Tia Jessica. They also told her that Mariela wanted everyone in white for tea time, but the real reason was that everyone at home would be wearing white. Jessica totally fell for it and was out all day. At home, everyone was busy decorating the yard with beautiful flowers, white lights, candles and a dinner ready to enjoy once the proposal was accomplished. When Jessica arrived, it was already dark. Mariela asked Jessica to please let her hair down and to walk through the side gate to the yard. Jessica was confused and asked “why?”, but her cousin said “Jessica, please do it”. When Jessica started walking through the gate, there were many lights and candles guiding her towards the back yard with white rose backdrops. She followed the lights to the back and arrived to many more candles everywhere. Guillermo was standing at the end in front of a white rose backdrop. He was so nervous and had a whole speech ready, but at that moment when he saw Jessica, he blanked out and forgot his speech and just spoke from the heart. He got down on one knee and asked her to marry him. Once Jessica said "Yes", many more lights turned on and family and friends came out of their hiding places to congratulate the couple. After the congratulations, everyone sat down to have a nice dinner and some yummy wine. It was Jessica’s dream proposal and she was of course in love with her ring!

Guillermo and Jessica have been dating for seven years, engaged for one year, and have known each other for ten years. They met each other when they were sixteen at a friend’s party and instantly hit it off. Guillermo knew he liked Jessica, but didn’t want to date her since he felt they were still very young. They continued to bump into each other at social events over the years and both of them realized they had a crush on each other. Eventually, Guillermo made the first move and asked Jessica for her number. They talked for hours on the phone and got to know each other. A few months passed, and even though Jessica was hoping that Guillermo would ask her to be his girlfriend, he never did. He took a work trip to Washington for about a month and realized how much he missed Jessica. He decided then that when he got back, he would make it official and ask Jessica to be his girlfriend. As soon as he got back from his work trip, he invited Jessica to go have ice cream with him. She was excited and was hoping that he would ask her to be his girlfriend. At the ice cream parlor, he told Jessica how much he missed her and how much he liked her and popped the girlfriend question. She said yes, and the rest is history!