Who doesn’t swoon over a love story that begins after assembly in kindergarten? That’s precisely how the celebrities aligned for a younger McKenzie Marcinek and Walker Buehler, MLB World Sequence Champion and star pitcher of the Los Angeles Dodgers. “Within the eighth grade, our class went to the mall, and McKenzie walked as much as me and requested if I wished to stroll round together with her,” reveals Walker of their junior excessive years. “I used to be fairly shy on the time, and I bear in mind pondering and admiring how assured she will need to have been to be to have performed that. I used to be mesmerized.”
Walker knew he wished to suggest for a very long time and had obtained the blessing of McKenzie’s father. Walker had additionally already bought a stunning diamond ring that paired McKenzie’s simplicity with the additional aptitude he desired. As McKenzie and Walker drove cross-country from Arizona – the place the Dodgers had been in the midst of spring coaching – again to their dwelling in Kentucky because of the Covid shutdown, someplace in center America, he realized: I need to do it now! “We received dwelling, and I proposed the following night,” he shares of the urgently romantic gesture to his longtime love.
For the reason that couple deliberate to wed throughout baseball offseason, the bride settled on a winter date however didn’t desire a Christmas-focused wedding ceremony theme. As a substitute, she opted for an amorous, winter white wonderland forest, which felt extra her fashion. “We wished to include our Southern roots and the stylish feeling of residing in LA into the décor components,” explains McKenzie. It was additionally essential that they had been married within the Catholic Church. “I come from a giant Catholic household and earlier than my grandma handed away, I promised her I’d get married at our parish,” confides the bride of the sentimental significance.
Although McKenzie had taken the lead in wedding ceremony planning, Walker had his personal set of calls for. “Ice cream, a bourbon bar, and a greenery wall,” he smiles. “I’ve no rhyme or cause for why these had been so essential, however they had been, and McKenzie and our planners had been very candy to appease me,” says the groom. “She nonetheless makes enjoyable of me for wanting the greenery wall, however they received it performed and I liked it.”
