Baker Mayfield's Wife - Facts about Emily Wilkinson & Their 'Love at First Sight' Relationship

Baker Mayfield and his wife, Emily Wilkinson, almost did not meet after she spent months rejecting his advances. Finally, the social media influencer agreed to a date, and the couple since has not been apart.

With the help of a mutual friend and his brother, Baker and Emily met during a football game, and their whirlwind romance saw them tying the knot less than two years later.

While Emily is mostly known as Baker's wife, she is also an influencer with a large social media following. Before that, Emily had different jobs and once quit as an act of love.

Emily Wilkinson Is Not Only the Wife of Famed NFLer Mayfield, but She's an Influencer

Emily was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on April 4, 1991. She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and after graduating, she moved to Los Angeles. While Emily is Baker's wife, she is also an influencer with a large social media following. With over two hundred thousand followers at the time of writing, Emily had an estimated net worth of $ 1 million.

As an Instagram model, she has worked with acclaimed photographers and often takes to social media to share her work with makeup artists and fashion stylists. Her younger brother, Sam Wilkinson, is also a popular public figure. With over one million followers on Instagram at the time of publication, Sam rose to prominence on Vines.

After appearing in videos with Jack and Jack and Nash Grier, he amassed over one million followers on Vines before the social media platform lost popularity. Since then, Sam kickstarted a music career and released his first song, "Aye Ma," in 2015.

She Left Her "Favorite Job Ever" to Be with Baker Mayfield

Before becoming an influencer, Emily worked as a bartender and patient coordinator at a plastic surgery clinic in Beverly Hills. After meeting Baker, Emily quit her job and followed Baker to Cleveland after the Cleveland Browns signed him. She said:

"I'm excited to say I'm only leaving Galanis Plastic Surgery because I'll be starting a new adventure with this guy in Cleveland."

Emily and Baker had been dating for a few months when she left her job, and she said leaving Galanis Plastic Surgery was "bittersweet" as it had been her "favorite job." Although she was no longer an employee, the owner and chief plastic surgeon of Galanis Plastic Surgery, Charles Galanis, proved he and Emily were still on good terms.

On April 4, 2018, he posted a video of Emily on Instagram to celebrate her birthday. While Baker played for the Cleveland NFL team, Emily was a special correspondent for Cleveland's 3News.

A Mutual Friend Introduced Emily and Baker, and It Was "Love at First Sight."

Before Emily met Baker, she was in a relationship with Morgan Mayberry, a fellow student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Emily and Morgan's relationship was discreet; he dedicated a since-deleted post to her on Instagram, and paparazzi once spotted them on vacation in St. Lucia.

It is unclear when they broke up, but a mutual friend had tried to introduce Emily and Baker for months in 2017. While starting a college game, Baker was on facetime with his brother when his brother scanned the crowd to show Baker who had attended the game to support him.

Emily was the only face he did not recognize, and Baker realized she was the girl their friend had tried to set him up with. Baker would repeatedly follow and unfollow Emily on Instagram to get her attention, but she ignored his advances. At the time, Emily was uninterested in dating an athlete as she thought he would be "the typical playboy athlete."

But by December, Emily had a change of heart, and the pair began exchanging messages on social media. Baker invited Emily on a date the day before his final game of the season in college, and she expected him to talk her ear off about football. But it never came up. Instead, he asked her about her family and her plans for the future. Emily said:

"We haven't really been apart since. It was love at first sight."

He Proposed With a Huge Engagement Ring

Six months after their first date, Baker proposed. He was filming a docu-series and asked Emily to invite their family and friends to a wrap party. During an interview for the docu-series, Baker was asked to talk about the first time he and Emily met.

It was the perfect segway for him to get down on one knee and ask her to marry him. On July 1, 2018, Emily took to social media to document the moment Baker had popped the question and wrote in the caption, "I get to be this guy's wife. Best day of my life."

They were both dressed in black outfits in the three pictures Emily posted. In the first, Baker was on bended knee as Emily lent to cup his face. In the second, the couple embraced, and in the third, Emily flaunted her rock of an engagement ring.

Baker Mayfield and Emily Wilkinson Spent a Year Planning Their Wedding

Emily and Baker tied the knot at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, as she said it reminded them both of home. It was the only venue they considered, as it was romantic yet not "over the top." Bluebell Events planned their wedding, which was a year in the making. Emily shared that her best friend picked out her wedding dress after a day of shopping and not finding "the one."

Everyone was in tears when Emily walked out of the changing room in a figure-hugging lace dress. While she wore a pair of Gianvito Rossi heels down the aisle, Emily changed into pink and gray Nike sneakers for the reception dance floor. The couple shared their vows in private, and Emily said:

"We wanted to write our own, but loved the idea of keeping them sacred and using traditional vows during the ceremony."

Baker Mayfield and Emily Wilkinson said "I do" in a garden-themed wedding in front of three hundred and fifty guests. Baker and the guests walked in to "Marry Me" by Train playing, while Emily and her father walked down the altar to "All of Me" by John Legend.