Hugo and Katie met in Guatemala City in 2018 through friends at church. Hugo asked Katie out multiple times before she finally agreed to dinner in March of 2019. After dating for some months, Katie's parents visited her in Guatemala and she decided to introduce Hugo to them. After that, both agreed that it was time to meet her family and friends in Tennessee too, so both started to plan a trip for March 2020, due to Covid, they had to cancel their plans and Katie moved to the US for some months; they were in a long distance relationship for almost all the year. In September Hugo planned to visit her and her family in Knoxville and take the chance to ask her dad if he can marry her. In January 2021, Hugo asked Katie to marry him in front of Cinderella's Castle while her family was close by.