The year is 2019. Improv practice is being held in a small, classroom-like area off to the side of the extra gym on the Texas A&M campus. Parker Sievert is pretending to be a criminal on trial for stealing too many loose ketchup packets from the campus cafeteria. Cassidy Seale is pretending to be a judge who thinks ketchup packets cost one billion dollars each and also has a Russian accent. It is, as you can imagine, almost unbearably funny. For a moment, the two lock eyes across the space that the group has created by pushing all the chairs to one side. A bond is formed. After practice, Cassidy informs Parker that he is her boyfriend now. Parker says AWOOGA AWOOGA and takes her hand in his. After a year of dating, the universe decides that this pairing may be too powerful for the rest of the world to handle and decides to unleash a plague upon the world. In the year 2020, being infected with the betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 became suddenly trendy. The universe suspected this would be enough to separate the couple and restore balance to the world. Not so! Who could have foreseen that COVID-19, as it is colloquially known, would put the young lovers through a sort of time warp, so that by the end of it, they had actually been dating for about two and a half decades and were already long overdue for a marriage. They followed recommended CDC guidelines by adopting both a cat and a dog, and their shared love for these creatures only strengthened the love they felt for one another. Parker, noticing Cassidy’s thoughtfulness and curiosity, and Cassidy presumably noticing Parker’s big ole’ muscles. After two years of living with roommates around Dallas, Cassidy accepted a prestigious offer to pursue her master's from one of the nation’s premier counseling programs. Parker, wondering if the rumors that there was more to the world than toll roads and sudden thunderstorms were true, packed up his things. Together they traveled across the country to the wild and wonderful land of Morgantown, West Virginia. This undertaking was an adventure like no other. So many miles from the places and people they knew, they were forced to forge new paths, make new friends, break ground in fresh haunts. They went on flower walks, ate delicious sandwiches, became regulars at the Apothecary, saw Eddie Spaghetti over and over, and recuperated from these excursions in their cozy apartment with tired smiles on their faces. All was perfect until Parker had to look for a job and quickly came to the realization that Morgantown was not the hub of modern finance that he had been led to believe it was. He drove back to Dallas and left Cassidy to finish her master's degree on her own. Long distance was no match for them! After her graduation, the pair reunited in not-so-wild, and very flat Dallas. Very quickly, Parker began ring shopping, trip planning, and most importantly, acting very nonchalant. In July 2025, he and a totally unsuspecting Cassidy flew out to Door County, Wisconsin, where Parker proposed on a beach under a cloudy night sky. Thankfully, she said yes, or this would be a much more tragic wedding story. Through these years, the adventures, challenges, and wonders that the pair have faced together have grown to be innumerable: Improv scenes, horror movies, haunted houses, Houston traffic, Dallas traffic, butt stitches, books, yoga classes, reality shows, tattoos, escape rooms, dog parks, Christmas balls, more books, day trips, mushroom dishes, farmers markets, dinner parties, snow storms, soccer games, island bars, High-Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE), and most harrowing of all, Kentucky. They thrived through it all. The past half-decade has seen them shape one another, fitting them even more perfectly together than they had that first comedically brilliant night at improv. And now, wouldn't you know it, they're getting married.