FAQs
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Why are you eloping?
Answer
After being together for three years, living together for two, setting up a life in a new city after a wild cross-country move, and still being in love through every moment of it, Sasha and I knew we were more than ready to get married. But as our friends may know, we're two people who love a plan, so we were slowly beginning the process of putting a wedding together. Then, what do you know! The 2024 election happened and suddenly our plans needed to change. We've been lucky to have been shielded from the worst parts of Texas government thus far, but we don't expect that luck to last. With cases already going forward challenging trans rights and gay marriage, we feel it's important to be legally wed and are excited to embark on the next phase of our lives together. We're looking forward to our little elopement, but know that we hope to have a larger wedding sooner rather than later where we can party and celebrate with all our friends and family. <3
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Why were you going to LA before you decided to elope?
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To go to the Gallifrey One convention! Sasha is a big old-school Doctor Who fan, and this convention is one of her favorite things.
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How did you two first meet?
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You may have heard that we met at a Halloween party. Friends, family, enemies, I'm here to tell you that story is a dirty lie. The truth is we met on Tinder. BUT shortly after that fateful swipe right, we discovered that we had a spooky amount in common and in fact HAD been at the same goth Halloween party together without knowing it at the time (shoutout to the Mercury Lounge!). The coincidences didn't end there. We discovered we both had tickets to the same New Year's Eve concert (shoutout to the Starland Ballroom!), that we were both bookish English majors, that we were both involved in comics, that we both had an adolescence shaped by Doctor Who. I had made a podcast about My Chemical Romance which Sasha's roommate was a fan of, and so she'd heard my voice saying silly things about 2000s emo music long before we met and I could say silly things about emo music to her in person. Coincidence? Fate? Who can say, but I feel pretty confident that Sasha and I would have crossed paths somehow, some way even if Tinder hadn't been the catalyst. And I'm grateful that she swiped right on me even if, as she says, she wasn't psyched about dating someone who lived across the river in New Jersey.
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What are your cats' names?
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Laszlo and Gizmo, inspired by characters from What We Do in the Shadows, a show we binge-watched together early in our dating years.
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What's your favorite place in Dallas?
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At the moment, probably the Texas Theatre. We love watching weird movies at local theatres, and the Texas is a great one. Plus it's hella haunted.
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What does Sasha miss most about New York?
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Witnessing all of the unhinged polycule dramas.
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What does Kat miss most about New Jersey?
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The trains and the angst.