When Marissa was hired as an Ambassador in UCM's Admissions Office she met Chris, an Admission's Rep. at the time, who led a campus tour before Marissa started giving her own campus tours. After three months, they spent time together was at the Warrensburg Dog Park with their dogs, Bruno and Truman. A lunch date and then a haunted corn maze date quickly followed and on October 30, 2015, Chris asked Marissa to be his girlfriend.