All About HGTV Stars Dave and Jenny Marrs’ Relationship

Dave and Jenny Marrs have lived a fabulous life together.

The Fixer to Fabulous stars have been renovating homes together on the HGTV series since 2019, but their love story began nearly 20 years earlier. The couple first met in 2002 through work, and married three years later in 2005. They have since welcomed five children into their family: sons Nathan, Ben and Luke, and daughters Sylvie and Charlotte.

Between raising their kids, filming their show and other business ventures, life gets hectic, Jenny told Better Homes & Gardens in March 2023. “The cameras are on all day, and we don’t have time to stop,” she said. “Mostly, I’m glued to my phone, checking on orders, reading texts. There’s never a relaxed timeline; it’s always a rush with no wiggle room.”

Still, they are able to come back to their original purpose together. “We just look at each other and say, ‘Remember your why,’ ” Dave said.

“We never could have planned it this way. It can be crazy chaos, but we’re so grateful for how it worked out,” Jenny added.

From growing their family to how they got started on TV, here’s everything to know about Dave and Jenny Marrs’ relationship.

They met through work

The pair first met in 2002 when they were both working for Newell Rubbermaid in different departments, according to About You magazine.

Dave’s job as a contractor at the company required him to travel frequently and relocate to multiple cities, including Austin and Chicago. Jenny, originally from Florida, was a designer based in Nashville.

In 2004, after 18 months of dating long-distance, they moved to Bentonville, Ark., together. At the same time, Dave decided to leave his job behind to pursue work as a builder.

“When I said I’m going to start building again, Jenny took a big leap of faith and said we’ll try Arkansas for a couple of years,” he told the outlet in October 2018.

“We were just going to be here for a couple of years and go back to Florida,” Jenny added. “I think, like a lot of people do here, we came for a stint and realized how great a place it is. This is home.”

Dave proposed to Jenny in Paris

After dating for over a year, Dave proposed to Jenny during a visit to Paris. On July 8, 2004, the third night of their trip, the couple made their way to the Eiffel Tower, where he popped the question.

“As we stood there, looking up at the glow of the lights against the clear, dark sky, Dave turned to me and said, ‘Marry me’ in a voice mocking a popular commercial at the time. I laughed and said, ‘But of course!’ to which he replied, ‘No, I’m serious,’ ” Jenny recalled to HGTV in February 2021.

She added that it was an “out-of-body experience” to see him get down on one knee and hold up a ring box. “I screamed and grabbed him by the neck, partially choking him while crying,” she added.

They married in 2005

Dave and Jenny married on April 2, 2005. They tied the knot at the Mission Resort + Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla., surrounded by 250 friends and family members, who each contributed to a special wedding quilt.

“Each guest sent in a decorated quilt square with their RSVP. Dave’s grandma made a quilt out of the squares that we still cherish to this day,” Jenny told HGTV in February 2021.

Jenny wore a strapless dress and carried a bouquet of roses, her favorite flowers. The eight members of her bridal party — her two sisters, four childhood friends and two college roommates — wore pink strapless dresses and carried bouquets of hydrangeas, Jenny’s other favorite flower.

The bride’s father made their four-tier wedding cake and mini wedding cakes for each guest. The couple, who have “the best memories” from their special day, chose “Amazed” by Lonestar as their first dance song.

“It was the culmination of months and months of planning and every aspect of the day was absolute magic,” Jenny said. “It was the perfect celebration and we are so grateful to have been surrounded by those we love the most as we began our life together.”

Dave and Jenny started working together in 2012

After leaving his corporate job in 2004, Dave began his construction company, Marrs Developing.

Jenny was “helping him along the way” for several years, she told About You magazine, before she left her job and joined his company full-time in 2012 to assist with renovations and custom home builds.

They share five kids

Dave and Jenny have five children: Nathan, Ben, Sylvie, Charlotte and Luke.

The couple welcomed their twin sons, Nathan and Ben, on May 29, 2010.

Two years earlier, after navigating infertility issues, Dave and Jenny began to look into the adoption process. But they eventually decided on “one last ditch effort with fertility treatments,” Jenny said in a September 2016 interview with Kelly’s Korner, which led to her becoming pregnant with their twins.

Once Nathan and Ben reached 18 months, they decided to “go ahead and open the [adoption] file back up,” Jenny told PEOPLE in April 2023. They came across Sylvie, a newborn from the Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2012.

Though their adoption was finalized in August 2013, the Congolese government shut down a month later, preventing her from leaving the country and coming home to Arkansas.

“It was heart-wrenching. There was nothing we could do,” Dave said.

Jenny got pregnant again during that time, but it was a bittersweet surprise. “I wasn’t able to really rejoice in the amazing news because we were so overwhelmed with sorrow that we couldn’t get our daughter home,” she recalled.

She gave birth to their daughter, Charlotte, on May 16, 2014. Eight weeks later, Sylvie, then about 2 years old, could finally travel to the U.S. in July 2014.

Dave and Jenny’s fifth child, Luke, arrived on June 11, 2019, just four months before Fixer to Fabulous premiered on HGTV.

Dave and Jenny were initially reluctant to go on TV

After working full-time together at Marrs Developing, a friend recommended them to an HGTV network executive in April 2016.

“They found this area to be very unique and thought it would be a great place to have a show for HGTV. She asked for recommendations for builders, and our names got thrown in the hat,” Jenny told About You.

Dave explained that though they were initially concerned with “how the production company would portray the area,” they felt more comfortable after learning that the company is from Knoxville, Tenn.

“It was a long process of back and forth, talking, developing what the show would look like and what it would be,” Jenny added. “We filmed a sizzle reel that they presented to the network.”

Their show’s pilot episode aired in November 2017 with the title Almost Home. After several delays and a name change, Fixer to Fabulous premiered in October 2019.

They renewed their wedding vows in 2025

In honor of their 20th wedding anniversary, Dave and Jenny renewed their wedding vows in April 2025 in front of their children.

However, days before the surprise party Jenny had planned for Dave, they “lost someone very dear to our family” and were “too sad and too exhausted from carrying the heavy weight of grief,” the mom of five wrote on Instagram.

“This was the only date on our calendar that worked when I first started planning and I now know that it was exactly what we needed exactly when we needed it,” she added in the caption.

Jenny explained how grief can be “tricky,” with sadness over a loss and a desire to “make room for joy and celebration.”

She continued, “And, we celebrated. We laughed with and hugged our people. We looked around at our tribe and thanked them for walking alongside us in this life.”