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Greg Mathis Jr.'s Boyfriend Elliot POPS the Question!
Greg Mathis Jr. and Elliott Cooper are present each other's everlastingly family.
The Mathis Family Matters star and his longtime love officially said "I do" during an intimate wedding ceremonial with their contiguous household successful Cabo San Lucas, Mexico connected Oct. 21.
"We're truthful thankful for your emotion and enactment arsenic we've gone from Washington, DC, to Mathis Family Matters," Greg and Elliott wrote successful a joint Instagram post on their wedding day, "and present to officially starting our household successful Los Angeles. Your enactment means everything!"
And for Greg, 35, and Elliott, 40—who archetypal met successful 2016—making definite their wedding felt similar a household travel was incredibly important to them.
"Family is 1 happening with Greg and I that truly solidified our narration successful the beginning," Elliott told People in an interrogation published Oct. 23. "Family is ace important to maine and america due to the fact that we cognize that they emotion america and we emotion them without immoderate hanging things. It's not transactional, it's conscionable pure."
And the mates took it a measurement further by having household progressive successful the wedding, arsenic Greg's begetter Judge Greg Mathis Sr. and Elliott's begetter Sergeant Calvin Cooper officiated the ceremony.
"Because my dada is simply a judge—a celebrated 1 too—he's officiated everyone else's wedding," Greg explained. "And truthful I person ever seen him successful each these weddings crossed the state and I've conscionable ever had his imaginativeness successful my caput of erstwhile I get married. [I thought], 'I anticipation that the idiosyncratic I wed is going to beryllium good with this due to the fact that I privation my dada to officiate my wedding.'"
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He continued, "And Elliot's dada is really successful instrumentality enforcement too, which is funny. It's a enactment astir america that we ever laughter about."
Greg and Elliott besides wanted to get joined successful a determination that held a peculiar meaning for them, which is wherefore they chose Cabo, arsenic it was the tract of their archetypal travel arsenic a couple. (Elliott amazed Greg with a Cabo abrogation for his birthday.)
And arsenic the mates is taking clip to bespeak connected their peculiar day, they were overwhelmed by the experience.
"I would decidedly accidental it's a imagination travel true," Greg gushed. "I cognize that's cheesy, but it is. It's everything I've ever wanted."
But the celebrations won't extremity determination arsenic the newlyweds are readying a larger solemnisation successful Los Angeles. Plus they are looking up to what their aboriginal holds.
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"We're talking much astir kids arsenic acold arsenic the adjacent large chapter," Elliott revealed, "and past conscionable continuing to truly turn together."
Fans of the mates got to ticker Greg and Elliott's narration blossom connected the show Mathis Family Matters, which followed the lives of Greg, his father, mother Linda Mathis and his siblings Jade, 39, Camara, 36, and Amir, 34.
On the show's play finale, Elliott adjacent got down connected 1 genu to inquire Greg a precise important question.
"We've been unneurotic for a precise agelong time," Elliott began. "We've been done a full batch together. I couldn't beryllium present without you, and with that, I wanted to ask, volition you–move to L.A. with me?"
Greg's household burst into laughter arsenic helium gave an enthusiastic, "I definite will!"
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