I completely accept Maria for who she is," After popping the question during a Wilco concert in Chicago last month, Chris Kattan exclusively tells PEOPLE
Kattan exclusively reveals to PEOPLE that she and Maria "fully accept each other for who we are."
We embrace our differences and idiosyncrasies as well, and we love each other because of them rather than only because of the things we have in common.
He continues, "When I got to see her and spend time together a few months after we first met, and I realized our creative brains were also totally in sync
(After the first sketch we did together.) Fortunately for me, she shared my sentiments.
"It's funny how life works sometimes and gives you gifts when you're not looking for them," she observes. "We clicked with one other right away when we first met.
Call it strange, ethereal, or magical, but it felt like we had known each other before.
I simply instinctively knew that after spending that first day together, meeting Chris, that my life would never be the same.