Marcus Rosner and Ali Kroeker have known each other for a long time. In a 2019 Valentine’s Day tribute to Kroeker, Rosner wrote on Instagram, “First time I saw you I was 12 … first time I talked to you I was 22 … needless to say I’m playing the long game on this one.” His post included a video of Kroeker dancing during a 2018 trip to Bali. Rosner confessed to having no interest in marriage when he was younger, but Kroeker changed his mind; he popped the question on New Year’s Eve 2019. “Last night I managed to pull off something very special for someone who was willing to wait a long time,” he wrote on Instagram. A group of the couple’s loved ones witnessed the proposal.
When the pandemic hit in 2020, Rosner saw one upside: He and Kroeker would have more time for wedding planning. “I will finally have you trapped!!” Kroeker wrote in response to her fiancé’s post about coming home for lockdown. Once it became safer to travel again, the couple decided to have a destination wedding. “My wife and I have long been huge fans of adventure travel. … We wanted to go to a place to get married that we had never been,” Rosner told TV Goodness in 2022. The location they settled on was the Recolección church ruins in Guatemala, which made for some incredible wedding photos.
