In October 2020, Bird announced her engagement to Rapinoe in a captionless picture on Instagram that showed Rapinoe proposing. Their engagement took place amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, which put wedding plans on hold. However, Bird revealed in a December 2020 interview with People that the pandemic also allowed them to have a more relaxed approach to wedding planning. “In some bizarre way, COVID has given us an excuse to not think about [the wedding] and we can kind of focus on our careers, because that takes so much time,” Bird said. “I think we are both totally okay with the fact that this might not happen for a year, maybe two. . . . We’ve always kind of known that this was forever, so we aren’t necessarily in a rush.”
Bird spilled about wedding details to People once more in a March 2022 interview, telling the outlet, “Ironically, this is like I said, honestly, stars aligning seems to be the theme. We’re kind of toying with having a wedding in Mexico maybe. So there’ll definitely be Coronas on deck, I can count on that for sure.”