On his relationship with former Сверхъестественное co-star Genevieve Cortese:
“Tonight she’s at her bridal душ in Los Angeles with my mother, her mother, my sister, my sister-in-law, my nephew, her sister. It’s tough to go, ‘Hey baby, I Любовь you. I wish I was there, but I’m 1,500 miles away and I’m not gonna talk to Ты for a few hours. I miss you.’ Those are the sacrifices, but if I didn’t work so hard and she didn’t work so hard, we wouldn’t be in this position, we wouldn’t have met each other in the first place, so Ты just have to be grateful for what you’ve done and how Ты got there"
“Tonight she’s at her bridal душ in Los Angeles with my mother, her mother, my sister, my sister-in-law, my nephew, her sister. It’s tough to go, ‘Hey baby, I Любовь you. I wish I was there, but I’m 1,500 miles away and I’m not gonna talk to Ты for a few hours. I miss you.’ Those are the sacrifices, but if I didn’t work so hard and she didn’t work so hard, we wouldn’t be in this position, we wouldn’t have met each other in the first place, so Ты just have to be grateful for what you’ve done and how Ты got there"
And Padalecki had already scored considerable points with her family by calling her stepfather and her two brothers to ask for her hand. The two were in New York, her mother said, and Padalecki suggested a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a place they had frequented. There, in front of their Избранное painting, “Joan of Arc,” painted in 1879 by French realist Jules Bastien-Lepage, he proposed. “We knew it was happening and were just waiting for the call,” Batt recalled.