Wedding Party

Heather Venechuk

Matron of Honor

It's hard to pick a favorite memory. Between the play dates, teddy bear weddings, graduations, school dances, football games, the angsty teenage years... some of my favorite memories with Bea from the 22 years I've known her were all the years we went skiing up in Steamboat with the Morreale family. The girl used to shred! She and I had some of our best powder days skiing with her family. Bea would get so excited to go skiing, she'd be up at the crack of dawn pushing everyone out the door. She loved snowboarding so much and always put up with all the jokes I made about shredding pow pow. I recall some big powder days (3+ feet, though maybe it just looked like that much in a kid's eyes) and all the times we both got stuck deep in the snow and had to dig each other out!

Ellis Montgomery

Best Man

Liz Sanderson

Bridesmaid

February 13th started off like many Saturdays for our family. Bea was off at OTF coaching it up, Justin and I were out running errands, and Andrew was probably sleeping or playing video games. It was supposed to SNOW in Texas, so of course, we wanted to have a fire. We were also on the search for a space heater because our guest house, where Bea and Andrew lived, had no heat. Around noon, it started to sleet so Justin and I decided to head home. Traffic and weather were picking up so she wasn't comfortable turning around... thus commences... snowmageddon! Andrew, Bea, Justin, Hilton, and I were already extremely close but this was the true start of us becoming FRAMILY. I thank God every day for these two and we are so blessed to stand by their sides in November!

Justin Sanderson

Groomsman

Fiesta is my favorite memory of Bea when she came to Texas, yearning to learn what Fiesta was. When she first got here, she was shocked Texas had trees! She then proceeded to eat a chick on a stick, learn what a good margarita is, and attempt to dance. Her night ended with cascarones and having her hair vacuumed to clean it up. She is the sister I never had, and I am so lucky to be one of her best friends. Not long after moving to Colorado, the NFL draft was occurring. I was excited to watch it but did not know anyone. You could say it was the first man-date Andrew and I went on when we decided to imbibe some spirits at a local establishment known for their libations and TVs. We spent the evening talking about everything football, and the tradition has not been broken since that day.

Lindsay Stronz

Bridesmaid

I had the privilege of being the first person to meet Bea; all before there was “Andrew and Bea”. I had come to Colorado to visit Andrew and help him move to his new place. One night, we decided to get pizza for dinner. Andrew casually mentions a friend from work would be joining us. “She’s really nice, kinda hippy-like, and easy going” he says. That friend was Bea. The entire night it was obvious these two cared for each other and had an undeniable bond. I turned to my friend and made a statement right there that they’d be dating within a year. I was right. I enjoy being right. Especially when it comes to my brothers happiness. I am overjoyed to officially have Bea as part of the family and wish nothing but the best for them both.

Jon Morreale

Groomsman

Shortly after I turned 21, Bea and Andrew decided it would be an excellent opportunity to visit me in FoCo and take me to all of Bea's old spots. Or maybe that was Bea's idea... Andrew's idea was to drink me under the table. At our first stop, Andrew started chatting (mouthing off) with some interesting gentlemen at the pool table. I didn't know that Andrew could play pool. I still don't know if Andrew can play pool. But Andrew put $80 on a game against these surly characters. Miraculously, Andrew won the game. Or maybe the guy left. Either way, we had cash in hand. The rest of the evening, we partied like kings and queens, and Andrew achieved his goal of sending me home early. They have always gone out of their way for me and I could not be more excited to welcome Andrew to the family!

Meaghan Stronz

Bridesmaid

Andrew, Bea, and I went snowboarding a few years back. It was Andrew’s very first time downhill skiing/snowboarding. We got out to the bunny hill, he made it off the chairlift without incident, and we were off to a good start. Andrew asked me to give him a little bit of space as his big sister, and practiced snowboarder, was making him more anxious (remember, he was the only sibling to have never snowboarded before). After all, the only reason he was doing this—despite his surmounting fear of heights and going fast—was to show interest in Bea’s interests. Bea completely took charge, and Andrew was on his feet and down the hill in no time. I wouldn’t know, though, because I was off having the best time riding solo.

Christian Nugent

Groomsman

It was second grade. Andrew and I had only know each other for a few months. One day, we were bored after eating, and thinking of a game to pass the time. Putting our 7 year old brains together, we very quickly created the game “Lunchbox Fighting.” This very simple game involved hitting each other on the head with our lunchboxes until… well that was it actually. As fate would have it, Andrew was turned away from tyrannical eye of the lunch lady. I put my lunchbox down, but Andrew didn’t. He kept fighting and then she was on him; his lunchbox taken from him without a word. But, it was not in vain. For our brief moment in the sun as Lunchbox Fighters, we were kings who shared a glorious kingdom. And for 22 years now, we kept that feeling through thick and thin.

Erica Zimmerman

Bridesmaid

I met Andrew and Bea while working at Fire Mountain a few years ago. We actually did not hit it off right away, and I remember our initial encounters being distinctly awkward. Within a couple of weeks though, everything just seemed to fall into place. One of my favorite memories of Bea and Andrew is linked to one night we went out to a few bars in Longmont. Bea and I gave a really awful Karaoke rendition of It Wasn't Me by Shaggy. At some point that night, Andrew decided he had enough of me and decided to pick me up and throw me over his shoulder. I'm pretty sure his goal was to make me be quiet, and thought I might talk less if hanging upside down. The joke was on him though, because he threw his back out in the process and couldn't get out of bed the next day.

Kyle Edewaard

Groomsman

I met Andrew through my wife Erica after moving to Longmont in 2016. We learned that he and Bea both shared a love of the outdoors and the four of us created great memories of hiking and camping throughout the Rockies. Our first backpacking trip was particularly memorable. After huffing and puffing for a few miles we stood at 12,000 ft. as the first of many raindrops started to hit our faces. Andrew then mentioned “I need to stop for a minute; don’t want to push too hard because of my heart problem.” That was new information to me. A heart problem, climbing a mountain at 12,000 feet, and a potential lightning storm. He couldn’t have warned us earlier? But that’s Andrew: he’s always game and he’s never going to let anything get in his way. That day I knew I had made a lifelong friend.

Morgan Barrow

Bridesmaid

Bea and I have been through a few life phases together. The first phase was the pre-teen years full of acne and awkwardness. I will never forget the first time I met Bea. She was speaking French and I thought, “she must be weird, we are going to be great friends!” The second phase was the teenage years. We were on the same career path of Dairy Queen. We then transitioned into the third phase of attempting-to-adult years. We learned so much from being each others’s college roommate; like running on 3 hours of sleep, learning how to clean dishes, the art of curing a hangover, and knowing when the apartment below you may have set their place on fire. It’s life lessons like these that make me grateful we have even come out alive and in one piece.

Dylan Schaefer

Groomsman