McKay and Blake met the modern way: by matching on Bumble (swoon!) in July of 2022. Ever since their first date at Culinary Dropout at the Domain in Austin, they never let a day go by without talking. After a month of dating and winning over her first-born pup Duncan, Blake made it official by asking McKay to be his girlfriend. McKay and Blake’s earliest days consisted of many country music concerts (think Parker McCollum, Cody Johnson, Luke Combs), dive bar happy hours, and I-35 trips to see her family in San Antonio and his brother and sister-in-law in Fort Worth. Come December 2022, it was time to make the big trip to Hawaii where Blake’s parents retired, for McKay to meet them for the first time. After a week of sunsets, beaches, and boat excursions, they called it love. Little did they know that Hawaii would become so special to their relationship as Blake proposed on the Kapolei beaches a year later on December 11, 2023. They now look forward to celebrating their wedding with family and friends and spending a lifetime making new memories together.