While the two make a great on-screen home improvement team, they’re also an aspirational couple off-camera.

“And from that point on, we were inseparable.”

There were 10,000 people there," Mike toldHGTV.

Egypt Sherrod and Mike Jackson smiling

“And I saw her backstage and the light was literally only on her.

From that moment on, I knew she was my wife.

I told the security guard to let me back there, because I needed to talk to someone.”

Mike Jackson and Egypt Sherrod posing

“I said to my friend, ‘I gotta get a closer look.

They passed his float on multiple occasions and that was when Sherrod heard her name being called out.

“My friend’s like, ‘The hot guy’s calling you!’

Egypt Sherrod leanin against Mike Jackson

The rest, as they say, is history.