Who Is Payton Pritchard's Fiancée? All About Emma MacDonald

Boston Celtics guard Payton Pritchard proposed to his fiancée Emma MacDonald in July 2023

Payton Pritchard may be aiming for a ring on the court in the 2024 NBA Finals, but he already put a ring on his fiancée, Emma MacDonald.

The Boston Celtics guard proposed to MacDonald in July 2023 after the two first made their relationship public in February 2023. Now, MacDonald has been rooting for the NBA star as the Celtics moved on to the final series in the championship.

MacDonald has grown a large platform of her own, from becoming a New England influencer alongside her sister, Maggie MacDonald, to filming vlogs on her TikTok and YouTube channel. She has also shared some of her wedding planning process on both of her accounts, with Pritchard admitting she was taking the lead on planning.

“She’s kind of handling everything, I’m just the final decision maker,” he told NBC Sports Boston in November 2023. “If she’s in between a decision, I come in and make the final decision on it.”

So who is Payton Pritchard’s fiancée? Here’s everything to know about Emma MacDonald and her relationship with the athlete.

She grew up in New England 

MacDonald grew up in Dennis, Mass., in Cape Cod, but she often visited Boston with her family.

“It is a small city, which makes it manageable, but it truly has so much character,” she told Forbes in November 2020. “We are proud to call ourselves Bostonians because of how much this city has to offer.”

MacDonald is a content creator

The New England native started her career making content alongside her sister, Maggie, but has since ventured into her own solo projects. She has accumulated over 800,000 followers on TikTok and 350,000 subscribers on YouTube, where she mainly posts vlogs about her daily life.

One of her most common video forms on TikTok are “get ready with me” videos, where MacDonald takes her viewers through her makeup and fashion routine. In May 2024, she shared a video as she did her makeup ahead of Pritchard’s playoff game.

They met after Pritchard commented on one of her posts

In a June 2023 Q&A on her Instagram Stories, MacDonald shared that the couple first met when Pritchard left a simple “hey…” in the comments section of one of her posts. She responded with a “hi” over Instagram DMs.

“Worked out just how I wanted it to,” he joked.

MacDonald said that after the two began dating, Pritchard started calling her his girlfriend before they had talked about titles.

“I kinda already assumed she was my girlfriend,” he admitted. “I don’t know, I just thought it didn’t need to be said, I thought it already was.”

In a June 2023 YouTube video, MacDonald said the Instagram exchange took place in 2021, but their relationship didn’t progress after that. They later reconnected on the dating app Raya, though it’s unclear when they first started officially dating.

The couple both posted each other for the first time around Valentine’s Day in 2023.

He appears in some of her content

Though MacDonald mainly posts videos on her own, she does sometimes feature Pritchard in her content. In one November 2023 TikTok, MacDonald pet their shared dog while the basketball star watched a sports game in the background. The previous month, she shared the details of her and Pritchard’s outfits for a birthday party in another video.

In June 2023, she also included Pritchard in one of her YouTube vlogs as they road-tripped to Naples, Fla.

They moved in together in March 2023

MacDonald and Pritchard first moved in together in March 2023 in a shared apartment in Boston, which she said helped make them closer in the June 2023 YouTube Q&A.

“It’s been so easy, it was such a seamless transition,” she said in the video. “I’ve never lived with someone before, and I feel like all I hear when you live with someone is it’s not the same, and your relationship is different, but with Payton and I, we’re completely the same. He’s still my best friend, we still wake up and do all of our little things together.”

In March 2024, the couple moved to a new apartment in Boston.

“This apartment’s beautiful and I’m so excited to be here, we love it,” she said in a March 2024 video.

MacDonald and Pritchard got engaged in July 2023

After less than a year of dating, Pritchard proposed to MacDonald on a beach in Cape Cod in July 2023. “A love for a lifetime,” the two captioned their engagement photos.

Since then, MacDonald has been in the throes of wedding planning between picking out her dress and the decor for the big day.

For Pritchard, the priority is to have a nice lounge after the ceremony is over and building up the playlist, he told NBC Sports Boston.

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