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Matt & Petra

America's Favorite Couple 2026

Reconnecting seven years after first meeting on a dance floor. Married exactly (to the hour) one year after our first date. Now we're in the running for America's Favorite Couple, and the biggest way to help us is simple: vote for us, for free, every day.

"Because you loved me, you've given me the faith to be myself."

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Matt and Petra
Currently 5th in our group
Our promise
If we win, the $20,000 goes back to the Central Valley.
How to help us win

The free daily vote matters most

The couples who do well here aren't the ones who spend the most. They're the ones whose people remember to vote every day. So the most useful thing you can do is set a reminder and vote once a day. It's free.

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Tap "Vote Free Today"

It opens our official America's Favorite Couple page. Every registered voter gets one free vote per day.

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Come back tomorrow

The votes reset every day. So the couples who win are usually just the ones whose people keep coming back. Bookmark this page so it's easy to remember.

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Want to do more? (optional)

The official site also lets you buy votes for $1 each. That money goes to the contest's own charities, not to us. It's a nice extra if you want to, but the free daily vote helps us just as much.

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What we'll do if we win
$20,000, back to the Valley

No joke. If we win, we're not keeping the prize money. We'll give the whole $20,000 to a charity here in the Central Valley, and we want you to help pick which one!

Local charities, and you pick which one

Vote for us, then pick the charity you'd want to receive the $20,000. The winner is decided by your votes. Have a better idea? Suggest it below and we'll add it to the list once we approve it.

Know a local nonprofit that could use this?

It's your community too. Tell us which registered charity you'd add. We verify every one before it goes on the list.

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Donation matching

Matching pledges

If you or your business wants to, you can pledge to match our donation for the day we win. Nothing gets paid here. It's just a public promise, and you'd give straight to the charity if and when we actually win.

Pledged so far
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Goal
$20,000

Every pledge here is on top of our own $20,000, so it all adds to what the Valley gets.

Pledge a match

Add your pledge here and we'll put it on the board. You only give anything if we actually win.

Our story
"Because you loved me, you've given me the faith to be myself."

We met on a dance floor and by luck, reconnected seven years later. Dancing is still our thing, but the years since haven't all been easy.

The hardest part was taking care of Petra's mom. It was long and draining and it asked a lot of both of us. Getting through it together is a big reason we're as close as we are now.

That's who we are. We're not a flashy couple, we just show up for each other. If we win, we want to do the same for the people around us here.

Matt and Petra dancing
The road to the finals

Where we are right now

The contest runs in rounds. Votes reset at the start of most of them, so each round starts over from zero. We'll need your vote again in every one.

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Your ideas

Suggest a local charity

Tell us which registered nonprofit you think should get the money if we win. We read all of them, and we verify each one before adding it to the list.

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