Gabbi and Ndue met in a basement in Ithaca, New York. Though, it’s not as creepy as it sounds. The year was 2012 and the two were attending a party hosted by the Ithaca College Track Team. Gabbi was wearing a Grateful Dead tank top and Ndue was…also wearing a tank top, paired with these weird neon arm sleeves. He claims the party was “neon themed,” though no one else was dressed up. Gabbi made fun of Ndue’s poor pong skills and the two somehow still managed to exchange numbers by the end of the night. Ndue did the old, “guess how my name is spelled” trick. The silent “N” threw Gabbi for a loop. Within a few weeks, the semester was over and the two headed off for the summer between freshman and sophomore year. They texted occasionally about Game of Thrones and Daft Punk and summer jobs, but it wasn’t until Fall that they started hanging out more, mostly at parties because Gabbi nervously avoided bumping into Ndue on campus any chance she got. Gabbi knew she really liked Ndue when he attended her Intro to Film’s class screening to watch her short puppet film and stayed for the entire screening (for context, that’s a lot of crappy student films)! Ndue knew he liked Gabbi pretty quickly. She was just awesome like that. The two started dating shortly after and have been together since. They survived a few years at 219 Coddington with some of their best friends and moved to Astoria, Queens post-grad. There, they scootered through Astoria Park, had lots of hungover brunches at Sek end Sun, and fed a ton of coins to the basketball arcade game at Break Bar. They’ve hosted some wild Halloween, Christmas, and Birthday parties at their apartment named Fort Gary and hope this wedding will be their best party yet. After a Pandemic of dunking on Gabbi with the mini basketball and hoop set up in the living room, tending to 20+ plants, watching a lot of TV on their very tiny couch, and dancing to 80s music on the roof, they decided it was time to pack up and move into Manhattan. In the few years they’ve been on the UWS, they’ve eaten over 40 pastrami sandwiches, drank more oat milk cappuccinos than Gabbi should have ever had, cracked open one too many White Claws with friends while hanging out on blankets in Strawberry Fields, played a ton of Crazy Taxi and Tapper at the Barcade on 23rd, and have taken hundreds of walks in the park. Their favorite ones are when the weather is just right and they’re people-watching and spot an old couple still walking hand-in-hand. They hope that’ll be them some day. Gabbi and Ndue invite you to celebrate with them this November. They hope you’re filled with love and joy and ask that you eat, drink, and dance till the very last song of the night.