America’s Favorite TV Uncle Full house‘s Dave Coulier, is married to wellness instructor Melissa Bring.

The couple first met in 2005 at a restaurant in Montana, where Bring is from. Almost ten years later they announced their engagement. “Melissa has truly been my best friend for nine years,” Coulier told PEOPLE in June 2014. “We just thought we would make it a lifetime.”

Surrounded by family and friends, including the Full house cast, Coulier and Bring married in July 2014 at the O’Hair Ranch Lodge in Paradise Valley, Mont.

Fast forward, when Coulier told PEOPLE exclusively that he had been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, he talked about how Bring motivated him to seek treatment and keep a positive attitude after sharing the news with her.

“I looked at how those words affected (my wife) and I thought, ‘You know what? I will be strong during this time, not only for me, but I will be strong for her,” he said on November 13.

So who is Dave Coulier’s wife? Here’s everything you need to know about Melissa Bring and her relationship with the actor.

She was born and raised in Montana

Bring was born and raised in Livingston, Mont., where she returned VoyageLA as “a rural, creative town tucked away in the Rocky Mountains.”

Her mother was an author and her father was a lumberjack. Bring told the outlet that she, along with her three siblings, would “spend summers in the woods,” relying on their creativity and imagination for entertainment.

After growing up near Yellowstone National Park, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her photography career (and continue her relationship with Coulier). According to Bring’s Living Well with Mel and Mel bio, she and the actor now live in Detroit — about 20 minutes from where Coulier grew up in St. Clair Shores, Michigan.

She is a photographer

Bring discovered her love for photography at an early age.

“My grandmother gave me a camera as a gift when I was 11,” she says VoyageLA. “I was introduced to 4-H shortly after receiving my camera. They offered photography. I eagerly submitted the maximum number of entries for the fair each year.”

Bring eventually joined her high school yearbook and went on to study photography at Spokane Falls Community College in Washington.

Torn between deciding whether to move to LA or New York City, she settled in California after meeting Coulier at her restaurant job in Bozeman, Mont. Bring’s Instagram is now proof that her professional photography career has taken off.

Over the years, she has taken photos of several celebrities, including Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure, Lori Loughlin and Mckenna Grace.

She and Coulier made their red carpet debut in 2008

In 2008, the couple made their red carpet debut at Comedy Central’s Roast Bob Saget in LA, Bring wore a little black dress, while Coulier complemented her in a black suit.

Since then, they have only attended a few Hollywood events together, such as Hello Kitty Con in 2014 and the TV Land Icon Awards two years later.

They married in 2014

Coulier and Bring married on July 2, 2014 at the O’Hair Ranch Lodge in Montana.

The comedian later told PEOPLE that the ceremony was short. “It was probably six minutes (long),” Coulier said. “Everyone said, ‘That was the best wedding ceremony ever!’ ”

The wedding festivities, which included a pig roast, were attended by Coulier’s lover Full house costars.

“Bob Saget and John Stamos took me aside after the ceremony. We laughed and hugged and kissed like three brothers do,” he remembers. “There were genuine tears of joy in our eyes.”

Bring added that she and Coulier decided to take personal vows instead of traditional ones. “We say our vows to each other every day,” she said.

She is a stepmother of Coulier’s son

Before Bring, Coulier was married to Jayne Modean from 1990 to 1992 and they welcomed a son named Luc.

During a question-and-answer session with her Instagram followers, Bring was asked if she wanted to have children. She replied, “(I) love being a stepmom!”

Coulier will soon become a grandfather, as Luc is currently expecting his first child with his wife Alex.

Her Lupus diagnosis caused a pivot in her career

In 2006, Bring was diagnosed with Lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune system attacks healthy tissues.

“I was driving, blacked out and was taken to the hospital. They discovered I had a blood clot and after many tests we found out it was lupus,” she shared on her Instagram Stories.

Her diagnosis ultimately led her to launch Living Well with Mel and Mel in 2020, along with her co-founder and nutritionist Melanie Samuels. In an interview with Seen a magazine in January 2024, Bring Living described Well as an “inclusive wellness brand focused on inflammation-free living.”

Two years later, Bring Found Moving Well with Mel after becoming a certified group fitness instructor and pain-free movement specialist, according to the outlet. She teaches group and private lessons at The Corner Studio in Michigan, focusing on breathwork.

She is close with the Full house form

In January 2024, Bring appeared in the series The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast in which she and Bure talked about their nearly twenty-year friendship that began during a hockey game.

“Lori (Loughlin) was there with you,” Bring recalled of the sporting event. “I was very nervous and intimidated. I thought, ‘I’m meeting people I used to see on television.’ So surreal and weird.”

Bure added, “We became fast friends.”

After Saget’s unexpected death in January 2022, Bring paid tribute to her longtime friend on Instagram.

“A loss too great to express,” she wrote. “The capacity in which he loved was unparalleled. Every text or conversation he had to be had to be the last to say ‘I love you’ even if it had already been said. Bob, we will give you girls and lady extra hold tight for you. I love you.”

She supported Coulier during his cancer diagnosis

Coulier was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in October 2024. While speaking to PEOPLE a month later, the actor said he and Bring, along with some friends in the medical field, worked together to tackle his cancer diagnosis “head-on.” ”

On Instagram, Bring shared how she feels uniquely prepared to be her husband’s caregiver, given her holistic wellness background.

“We focus on nourishing his body with real whole foods, cutting out refined sugars and processed foods, spending time in nature and incorporating infrared saunas, breathwork and massages to support Dave’s strength and comfort,” wrote them.

“Dave’s resilience inspires me every day, and together we are doing everything we can to support his recovery – with lots of laughter to keep spirits high,” Bring added.