In April 2023, Alex Cooper announced that her longtime boyfriend, TV producer Matt Kaplan — known to listeners as “Mr. Sexy Zoom Man” due to having met him via a Zoom meeting during the pandemic — had popped the question, and she’d said yes. Sharing details of the proposal in an interview with W Magazine, Cooper revealed that Kaplan had set up a photoshoot for her — which she didn’t realize he’d faked in order to get her out of the house. “When I came home that night, my entire house was covered in candles, lit all over, music playing, and a scavenger hunt leading to Matt proposing,” she recalled.
Cooper and Kaplan were married in April 2024, with the nuptials taking place in Mexico’s Riviera Maya. “It was everything we wanted it to be,” Cooper told Vogue of their wedding ceremony. “It was emotional, heartfelt, and we tailored it to exactly how we always envisioned it.”
One of the various ways in which Cooper broke with tradition was by walking down the aisle solo instead of being given away by her father. The reason, she explained, was her way of rejecting the patriarchal ideas implied by that traditional wedding staple. “At the beginning of wedding planning, I really rejected the concept of being walked down by a man to be handed to another man,” Cooper said, noting that it wasn’t intended to diss her dad but simply reflected her rejection of the tradition. “It’s old and antiquated,” she said.
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