The bride is from Saint Joseph, Missouri and is a 2009 graduate of Central High School. She is currently a senior at Youngstown State University in Youngstown, Ohio and works part time at the local Jimmy Johns. She also helps Zack with the local church youth group and tutors middle and high school students at the church. She will be graduating in May, only three weeks before the wedding with a Bachelors Degree in Secondary Mathematics Education.  She plans to teach at a local high school while Zack finishes school.

The groom is from Hubbard, Ohio and is a 2009 graduate of Hubbard High School. Zack is currently attending Youngstown State University also. He plans to graduate in May 2015 with a Bachelors Degree in Argumentative Communications and a minor in Public Relations. While attending college, Zack is working as a youth pastor at his home church, Church Hill United Methodist, and is also a salesman at Sears.