Chase and Mary Kay grew up in the same neighborhood in McDonough. Mary Kay remembers Chase and his brother from the Big Pool, where their mom, Debbie, made them share their toys with her. (They had all the good toys... torpedos, noodles, all that. Mary Kay had a handful of pennies from the car's ash tray, haram.) Later they re-met after Mary Kay moved back to Atlanta from finishing her MFA, at TWO of Jeffrey Peterson's birthday parties. The first year, Chase was dating someone. The second year, Mary Kay was dating someone (but Chase did draw a picture on her to-go box of them attending a James Blake concert. She did not go with them to the show, and it is one of her biggest regrets). They re-met AGAIN in the summer of 2019 when Jeffrey, Abena, and Mary Kay went to Andrew Lundstrom's farmer's market. Mary Kay invited all of them to a Beyonce dance party at The Basement in East Atlanta (which is very close to their wedding venue). Chase said he would come. Mary Kay did not believe him. Jeffrey even asked as they were leaving, "Do you want to give Chase the dance party info?" and she said, "Pfft, he ain't comin'." But then he DID come to dance! He met up with Mary Kay and Ashley Godfrey at the party, drove them safely home after they all shut down the club (well, it's more of a dive than a club... it ruined Chase's Vans. They were covered in "tar"), and the rest is, as they say, history.