JC and Mary met in Vermillion, South Dakota (of all places) wayyy back in 2017. JC was playing Junior League Hockey for the Sioux City Musketeers and Mary was in her sophomore year of college and competing in track and field at The University of South Dakota. After a couple of years together, they decided to part ways due to the strains of long distance. In the years in between, the pair stayed in touch and eventually found their way back to each other as Mary was moving to Florida and as JC was beginning his engineering career. JC planned a romantic trip on the coast of Maine to reconnect and the rest was history. JC proposed to Mary in September of 2023 after a round of golf on The Marginal Way Trail in Ogunquit, Maine. The very same place they reconnected.