Extremely happy to support the @portlanddiamondproject and the idea of baseball in Portland. Thanks for the perfect Valentine’s Day gift @drhannahtate.

Happy Valentine’s Day to the love of my life.

My mom found a letter I wrote to my dad to get four bucks to see a movie when I was a kid. On a typewriter. I have so many questions, first of which is why I was calling myself Mantis and why my callsign signature had balls on it?! ~~~ MANTIS ~~~00~~~

I’m in an engraving mood lately. 🤨

2019 will always be the year I got to marry my best friend and start our life together. Now that 2020 is here I’ll try and keep the wedding photos to a minimum. 😜

Merry Christmas from The (New) Tates! 📷: @jessicahillphoto

Just Christmas Eve instagramming. 📷 @jessicahillphoto

This is what friends are for.

I will look at this photo from now until the end of time and be happy.

🤍

Perfect.

We got wedding photos back so that may be all I post now and forever. 📷 @jessicahillphoto

And finally, as we end our relaxing post-Wedding week, and prepare to reenter the rest of the world, I’d like to thank all of our guests and friends that made the wedding what it was. Without all the family and friends that supported us to this moment, we wouldn’t be here. Especially Hannah’s parents and aunts and uncles for welcoming me into the family, and to the cousins that have made me feel so loved.
@drhannahtate, I can’t believe I get to spend forever with you! It’s been an incredible seven years, and thank you for loving me. (First photo by the incredible @jessicahillphoto.)

One week from the wedding and I don’t even know how to say thank you to my mom. She helped put together an incredible rehearsal dinner and let me dance awkwardly during our dance together. But more than that, she has been my rock my entire life. She taught me how to face challenges head on, always try and help where I can, and pushed me to be the man I am today. It was seeing her example of a strong, talented, and incredible woman, that I see reflected in so many of the traits that drew me to my now wife.
A thank you will never be enough for my mom. She’s the best and we love her very much.

There’s no other friend I wanted standing up next to me during my wedding, and no other friend I was excited to see dance on the dance floor after. 🤣 I’ve known Matt since high-school and have always been able to count on him to be there to discuss everything from life changes to the latest new music by a band we grew up with. He spent all day making sure I didn’t need anything, helped put out the mini-fire of the “table number three” fiasco, and is everything I could ask for in a friend. I feel amazingly blessed to have had three incredible grooms-people. (And his dog @camcamthegolden is awesome.)