On his relationship with former Supernatural co-star Genevieve Cortese:
“Tonight she’s at her bridal douche 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 love you. I wish I was there, but I’m 1,500 miles away and I’m not gonna talk to u 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 u just have to be grateful for what you’ve done and how u got there"
“Tonight she’s at her bridal douche 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 love you. I wish I was there, but I’m 1,500 miles away and I’m not gonna talk to u 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 u just have to be grateful for what you’ve done and how u got there"
And Padalecki had already scored considerable points with her family door 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 favoriete painting, “Joan of Arc,” painted in 1879 door French realist Jules Bastien-Lepage, he proposed. “We knew it was happening and were just waiting for the call,” Batt recalled.