Gavin and Patrick Cooper agree they’ve been stuck on each other since the first time they met.
“A mutual friend thought that we would be good together and encouraged us to add each other on Facebook,” Gavin says. “So we did, but never took the time to really chat or schedule a time to meet in person. More than a year later, we had our first meeting and first date on Feb. 11, 2014. We were inseparable starting that very night.”
Patrick describes meeting Gavin as love at first sight. “I knew I wanted to marry Gavin when I first saw him walk out of the restaurant to greet me on our very first date. He was so handsome, it almost took my breath away. I knew in that moment I wanted to marry this man.”
Gavin, an Altamonte Springs, Fla. native, currently works as a leasing professional. Patrick is a social media influencer, originally from Laguna Beach, Calif. They now live together in Orlando.
With such remarkable chemistry from the beginning, it comes as no surprise that the couple’s engagement was a big to-do. Patrick was the one to pop the question.
“Patrick proposed to me with a flash mob proposal at Disney’s Boardwalk Resort, the location where we had our first date,” Gavin says. “We had an amazing group of talented friends that were able to record the whole thing and edited it into a beautiful video that we decided to post onto YouTube for our friends and family to see. Almost four years later, the video now has over 738,000 views!”
You can see the magical flash mob proposal by going to the couple’s YouTube channel, Gavin&Patrick. The video is called “Patrick and Gavin’s Disney World Proposal.”
The couple married in Nov. 2018. Their wedding day was packed with every bit of the same romance the couple had been feeling all along.
Gavin describes a beautiful moment the couple shared prior to the ceremony. “I’ll never forget the last few moments we spent together before we separated to walk down the aisle to the ceremony stage. We stood together behind a wall, out of sight from our guests, and just held each other’s hands while praying and thanking God for bringing us together and for allowing us to have all the people we love in one place, in that very moment, to watch us celebrate our love for each other.”
Gavin adds, “It was a feeling that I never had felt before. I think it was due in part to so many emotions running through my body. It was truly a magical moment.”
For Patrick, the special moment came during the ceremony when the couple was sharing their own vows to each other. “While I was reciting mine, I stopped and told Gavin to look out at what we were able to do. I had been dreaming about that moment for so many years. It took a lot of hard work and sacrifices to get to that day and it had hit me right there on the stage that this dream was a reality, and if we were able to do that, we could do anything that we dream up together.”
Engagement date: March 11, 2015
Wedding date: Nov. 17, 2018
Venue: Hyatt Regency Orlando
Colors: Burgundy, Navy Blue, Gold
Wedding Song/Artist: “A Million Dreams” by Pink
Caterer: Hyatt Regency Orlando
Officiant: Chris Winsor
Cake Bakery: Hyatt Regency Orlando
Cake Flavor: Marble with citrus filling
Photographer: Danny Gorman Photography
