LOCAL LOVE
HOW WE MET 7 Astoria
Brittany and
Matthew Faucher
There’s nothing like ringing in the New
Year with a new bae. At least that’s probably
how the Fauchers feel.
Brittany and Matt Faucher first locked
eyes at a New Year’s Eve party in Astoria in
2011 and became fast friends.
“We actually didn’t even talk much on
New Year’s Eve because I arrived very
late after work when everyone had already
been drinking for hours,” Brittany said. “It
wasn’t until I saw Matt in a show in the city
that I realized I liked him. Another girl in
the show was flirting with him and I felt
myself getting jealous and thinking to myself,
‘Oh no, I like Matt Faucher!’”
Matt turned up the romance in summer
of 2012 when he confessed his feelings to
Brittany on her birthday. She admitted she
wanted to be more than friends as well.
The Astoria couple’s first date was in
New Jersey at Brittany’s family’s beach
house. He took her to The Boathouse
restaurant, where he asked her to be his
girlfriend. Matt proposed to Brittany at
that very restaurant three years later, and
the couple got married in Hartford, Connecticut.
“It was our dream to get married in New
York, but we both come from very large
families and just simply couldn’t afford
it. But the wedding was beautiful and I
wouldn’t change it for the world,” Brittany
said.
Both Brittany and Matt are professional
actors. Matt performs in “Beautiful" on
Broadway and Brittany recently finished
filming her second episode as a co-star on
“Law & Order: SVU.”
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meet-cutes
Photos courtesy of Brittany Faucher
Photo by Emily Meade
VALENTINE’S DAY
BY ALLISON KRIDLE
Every year, in honor of Valentine’s Day, we share stories of local couples who
both live in western Queens and met one another in the neighborhood.
Here are seven couples’ adorable “how we met” stories, from a meet-cute on
karaoke night to a tween romance that turned into a marriage.
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