Chris and Leah met in 2018 as lowly, underpaid contractors working on the Apple Maps app in Austin, Texas. They began their relationship as friends who ate pizza and watched Teen Wolf together through FaceTime during the pandemic. It wasn't until 2020 when Leah brought tamales for Chris on Christmas Eve that they officially got together. After 4 years of hikes, D&D, movie watching, Jellybean antics, and Chris asking, "Are you going to finish that?", Chris proposed on December 26, 2024. Chris and Leah are planning to elope to Gretna Green, Scotland on May 15, 2026 and continue their happily ever after.

In the middle of the 18th-century, English lords approved new laws to tighten marriage arrangements. Couples had to reach the age of 21 before they could marry without their parents’ consent and their marriage had to take place in a church. Scottish law, however, was different: you could marry on the spot, in a simple ‘marriage by declaration’, or ‘handfasting’ ceremony. This inspired thousands of young couples to run away and marry over the border. Gretna Green was the first village in Scotland and conveniently situated on the main route from London into Scotland. Late at night, young couples would be met at the crossroads by the ‘Blacksmiths Priest’; the only person in the village awake so late at night. Couples would be married over the blacksmith's anvil and to seal the marriage he would bring down his hammer to signify that another couple had been joined in matrimony.