‘Jeopardy!’s Amy Schneider Weds Fiancée Just 1 Year after Meeting Her — Inside Their ‘Private’ Wedding

• “Jeopardy!” champ shared photos from her intimate ceremony with her wife.

• The couple got married just a year after meeting.

• Schneider won $1.4 million after coming out. The hardest part about her decision was to tell her religious mother.

Game show contestant Amy Schneider recently announced that she secretly walked down the aisle following a whirlwind romance.

“Jeopardy!” star Amy Schneider announced that she and her fiancee Genevieve Davis are officially married. On September 28, 2022, she posted photos from their big day wearing white dresses on her Facebook page and a caption detailing their special day.

Genevieve Davis and game show contestant Amy Schneider attend The Dinah’s 31st Anniversary at Margaritaville Resort Palm Springs on September 23, 2022 in Palm Springs, California | Source: Getty Images

“Genevieve and I are delighted to announce that on May 9, we were married in a small private ceremony at the Alameda County Recorder,” she revealed. She divulged that their “traditional wedding and reception” would take place at a later stage.

Schneider explained that they had paused planning for their traditional ceremony because they had been occupied before adding she and Davis could not “wait to proclaim our love and commitment to each other.”

The engineering manager also shared the good news on her Twitter page, tweeting that one year ago, she was in Los Angeles “waiting to fulfill a dream.”

She said since that period, only good things have happened. Schneider noted that her highlight was when she and Davis exchanged wedding vows while giving her credit for good karma.

Schneider said if it were not for Davis’ presence in her life, “none of the other good days would have happened,” adding she is fortunate to have her in her life. The lovebirds wed in Northern California, where the TV star had lived for several years.

The newlyweds were engaged for nearly three months before tying the knot. Their relationship quickly evolved.

How Schneider Met Her Love?

In February 2022, Schneider announced the couple’s engagement on Twitter. She posted a picture of her and Davis flaunting their engagement rings and expressed that she was elated to be looking forward to spending the rest of her life with her love:

“Genevieve is no longer my girlfriend. She’s my fiancee!!!”

Per Closer Weekly, Davis and Schneider met through mutual friends in 2020. Schneider revealed in a Twitter post that she had a pal visiting her place who was on the phone with her significant other.

The said friend invited her boyfriend’s sister over to Schneider’s apartment, and it happened to be the television star’s future wife, Genevieve.

The pair started dating in February 2021 and got engaged a year later, on February 24, 2022. They rocked identical solitaire diamond rings.

While Schneider works in the engineering industry, her wife previously worked as a nanny and has pursued a career in social work, per the Los Angeles Times.

Schneider Came Out as Trans & Then Won $1.4M

In a candid interview with Insider in June 2022, Schneider opened up about her coming out experience. She said she knew when she wanted to come out as transgender – which was a spur-of-the-moment thing.

The Ohio native officially came out as trans in late 2016, saying that she needed to be honest with herself:

“It felt like something I did not have a choice about. For me to continue to hide myself and to continue to wear my old clothes and answer to my old name and all that sort of thing, it just felt intolerable.”

Embracing herself helped Schneider in many ways than one. Her personality changed; she went from being reserved and “shy” to finding it easy to form connections.

Schneider’s coming out experience was not as bad as she thought it would be. Although she lost a friend in the process, it was an easy transition:

“When I came out, and I was like, ‘This is who I am,’ the general reaction was, ‘Well, OK. Let’s move on,’ which was pretty surprising and pretty wonderful.”

However, she found it challenging to come out to her mother because their family is religious. Growing up in Dayton, Ohio, the GLAAD Media Award winner said she could not be herself because of how she was raised.

She explained it went against her Catholic religion’s values “to put yourself first.” Yet Schneider’s mom easily accepted her for who she is now:

“When I told my mom, the first thing she said was, ‘That’s a hard life.'”

Schneider, the victorious 40-game winning streak female titleholder on “Jeopardy!,” said her beloved mother was spot on about her new life because the world is not accepting of people like her.

Despite that, she revealed some good things have come from sharing her new identity. Before, she had difficulty connecting with people, but that changed as she openly became herself.

The transformation positively impacted specific aspects of her life: she did better at her job, and her relationships became effortless. Schneider explained she could achieve that because she was “fully present” than before.

She also expressed gratitude for getting the opportunity to participate in “Jeopardy!” – her lifelong dream since childhood – following her decision to transition. Schneider believes that had she done things differently, they would have turned out the opposite.

Per Yahoo! Entertainment, Schneider won over fans’ hearts when she became the winningest woman in the game show’s history, winning $1,382,800 in her 40-game streak. She is the first trans contestant to qualify for the annual “Jeopardy!” Tournament of Champions.

Schneider told Teen Vogue once about the “amazing support” she received from the TV show’s fans worldwide and explained that she saw it befitting to be the best representative for the trans community on the series.

Per the New York Times, she filmed her last episode on “Jeopardy!” on November 9, 2021. On a day-to-day basis, Schneider is a software engineer.

When the first episode started airing, it dawned on her that she managed to tape for the show “and nobody else knew anything about it.” It is beautiful to see Schneider finding herself and being happy with her new wife!