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Weekly: How did you pop the question?
Gaskill: I actually proposed to her the first time, sadly, over the phone. She was in Nashville for a couple weeks. I had to do the proposal here [on B&B with Bridget]. I knew I was going to eventually propose to Tonya soon, anyway. We had talked about it and I felt a little weird about acting out this proposal before actually doing it with my [future] wife, so I did it over the phone the night before I shot it. Then, she came back from Nashville and we realized we weren’t really engaged. About a week and a half later, I got the ring and proposed on Venice Beach.Weekly: How did you decide when to get married?
Gaskill: We weren’t sure if we were going to get married right away or in the next year. It’s been a bad year, so we didn’t want to conclude something so beautiful in [that] year and wanted to wait till the next year. But then we were like, “No, no. That’s the wrong thinking. The right thinking is: Let’s put something good in this bad year to end it on a great note.” Also, we’d moved in together around Thanksgiving. I had done it before and didn’t want to live with somebody and not be married. So we got married [on Dec. 20].Weekly: Why Las Vegas?
Gaskill: It’s funny. We kind of laughed about it as we were doing it. We thought it was this cute little chapel we were going to and we showed up and it was “Viva Las Vegas” themed weddings. Our “little chapel” was actually inside a motel room. It was like a roadside inn and they had different themed rooms you could get married in, like Star Trek and Medieval Knight weddings. This was the straight chapel. We went in and were laughing the whole time, like, “OK, what did we get ourselves into! I guess this is legal.” She wore a pink dress and I wore my Armani suit that I wore to the Emmys last year. They did their sort of Christian ceremony and then I said a few things. Actually, our family did get to see it. It was on the Internet. It was a little cheesy, but there was something about it that was fun.Weekly: Did she know you from your daytime roles?
Gaskill: No. She hardly watches TV at all, and definitely not soap operas. She can’t watch [me]. It’s actually quite disturbing for her to see me kiss other girls. Being an actor for the last 20 years, I’ve numbed myself to all that. It’s been eye-opening to love somebody as much as I love her and start to try to understand that side of it and realize, yeah, it’s a little weird.
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