I Surely Do

I first met the fabulous Regan Moore in a tiny little office, while visiting a friend. She noticed my Star Wars shoes and made me feel like the coolest kid in school. Early on, I admired Regan from afar, wishing that we could be friends: a friend crush if you will. She was the queen of cool, and I jumped on any opportunity to hang out with her. The beginning of our friendship was marked by an excruciatingly long road trip from Dallas to Los Angeles, and after only 52 hours of blood, sweat, and tears (mostly sweat and tears) it was safe to say that we were best friends. I liked everything about her, her music taste, her humor, how excited she got about the little things (like Mexican food, and napping). I knew from that point in that I wanted to be around this woman for a long time. Later on that summer we started Brothers and Brides, our folk duo, and began to hang out every day to write music and get to know each other a little better. If I hadn't caught feels for her yet, I definitely had by this point. Two months into being a band, I asked Regan out impulsively almost directly after one of her coworkers did, scared that I would miss my chance to tell her how I felt. It wasn't too long into the dating process that I realized that this girl may be the one. She was funny, she was kind, and she was powerful and stood up for her rights. She was confident in herself and she was beautiful. As I was processing all of this; a very sick, overmedicated Regan Moore admitted that she loved me. That's when I realized that I really did love this woman. Fast forward through nine months of doing life with my best friend, my band partner, and my teammate and I found myself on my knee in Austin, Texas, asking Regan if she wanted to spend our lives together. Regan really is my best friend, my equal, and my teammate. I'm super thankful to even get to know such a wonderful, strong woman, much less get to marry her.

The first time I saw Jay, I noticed his shoes. They bore illustrated depictions of the ice battle of Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back. Automatically, I knew he was too cool for school. When we started hanging out, he made me a playlist chock full of Led Zepplin and The Velvet Underground--a sign that he was way cooler than I would ever be. I initially shied away from getting to know him more, totally intimidated. It wasn't until the longest dang road trip of my lifetime that we became close, making fun of weird names of New Mexican towns and listening to The Lumineers. We could quote Wes Anderson movies and he taught me the beauty of a David Bowie Concept Album. By the time we started Brothers and Brides, our indie folk band, we were best friends. I admired Jay most for his compassionate heart and his creative spirit, and after circumstance forced me to confess my true feelings, we were dating and I was falling deeper in love with him every day. In the months that we dated, I continued to see Jay as a responsible, loving human being who was confident in who he was as an artist, a Christian, and a worker. I was blown away by his love and patience and floored by how he wanted to approach the idea of marriage as a partnership and not as a hierarchy. I was inspired by him to live a healthy life in every area. When he asked me on September 9th, 2017 if I would be his wife, I said yes before the sentence was finished. I'm honored to get to do life with him and lovingly raise probably 129 dogs by his side.