SF tech exec's 'unconventional' wedding featured in New York Times - SFGATE

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A photo shows Yin Ranch in Vacaville, Calif. Sachi Takahashi-Rial and George Carollo’s offbeat wedding ceremony is scheduled to be held here in November.

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It’s a Bay Area love story for the ages: Two people meet as tweens, slowly fall in love throughout high school, have a Berkeley-Stanford “long-distance” relationship, live together in San Francisco, move across the country together and, finally, get married.

Naturally, it comes with the “unconventional” trappings of what a young tech founder-slash-executive (Carollo is a co-founder and chief operating officer for San Francisco recruiting startup Dover) and nonprofit director (Takahashi-Rial works for Listen4Good) who came of age in the Bay Area would have. Perhaps the most profoundly Bay Area techie touch: In lieu of a traditional RSVP, the couple opted for something more befitting of a venture capital slide deck.

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“You’re invited to the first Investor Offsite for pre-eminent investors worldwide,” their invitation read, according to the Times. “This exclusive event combines insights, innovation, vision, and, of course, cake.”

Takahashi-Rial and Carollo also did not do a traditional proposal, instead determining their shared future together on a Google spreadsheet titled “Life Planning.”

“There wasn’t a proposal,” she told the Times. “There was just a decision. We just project managed ourselves.”

The couple, who have known each other for at least two decades, attended the same middle school and high school in Sacramento. Carollo went off to Stanford, and Takahashi-Rial attended University of the Pacific before transferring to Berkeley. For years, they lived together in group houses in Cole Valley and by Duboce Triangle, before moving to New York City in 2021.

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The couple got married at a courthouse in Sacramento earlier this summer. But their company retreat — er, wedding — is slated to be a three-day affair in early November, the Times reported, complete with breakout group sessions like cake decorating and basketball.

“Are you getting married or raising a venture capital fund?” one friend asked the couple, according to the Times.

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