Ben & Sharlea
Wedding Party
Meagan Austin
Maid of Honor
Meagan and I met in our ASL class in college and had many more classes together in undergrad and graduate school. We have shared many fun memories together from concerts, restaurant adventures, downtown Melbourne and running zone races. I'm so glad that I convinced her to move to Brevard County from Orlando.
Alisha Gentry
Bridesmaid
Alisha and I met at work. She has been a joy to work with! We have enjoyed fun birthday parties, Makotos, work gatherings and going out to eat together. Alisha is also type A and loves organizing things. :) She gets me.
Stephanie Hefler
Bridesmaid
Stephanie and I met Senior year of college. She is also an SLP in the schools and we attend graduate school together. I enjoyed planning Stephanie's bachelorette party. We also enjoy hanging out in the avenues where we meet halfway. We like to go to fun professional events together, eat delicious food, go shopping and talk about our future!
Lauren Huling
Bridesmaid
Lauren is a fun gal that I like to talk travel with. She makes delicious food and is really talented with hair and makeup. She has been a fun addition to our group and I'm so glad Brian found her! We look forward to going to their wedding in October. It is so fun that we both started dating Ben and Brian around the same time and we got engaged around the same time. We have enjoyed Florida trips together and going to Charleston.
Elizabeth Jáuregui
Bridesmaid
Elizabeth is my fellow traveling friend. We love talking about all of the places that we've gone and the places that we want to go to. We also love going to trivia night at WOB which is where we met. Elizabeth teaches me Spanish and we love sending each other Harry Potter things.
Jackie Kellar
Bridesmaid
Jackie is a great friend and a great listener. We also met at WOB. We enjoy going to sporting events with Ben and Nick. We also love all the delicious waterfront restaurants in our area. We love going to breweries on the weekend. Jackie is the mother of our beautiful flower girl Leah.
Nick Kellar
Best Man
Nick and I met when he started working at Harris and I was home from a 3-month rotation working in Atlanta. We became great friends very quickly because we share a lot of similar interests. We golf together a lot, including a few rounds at TPC Sawgrass, and have attended Bay Hill and The Players together. We both love all kinds of sports and talk about them all the time. We're also huge lovers of craft beer, frequently attending local breweries. I was Nick's best man a few years ago when he married one of Sharlea's bridesmaids, Jackie. Their daughter, Leah, is our flower girl. Nick is a great friend and I'm honored he is my best man.
Haris Bazerman
Groomsman
Haris and I originally met during a group project together, along with Brian, our third year at RIT. We didn't really get to know each other until he moved to Melbourne and started working at Harris. Lots of great memories were made with Haris, whether it is a night out in downtown, attending TomorrowWorld, hanging out on Sunday's by the pool with everyone and the mobile bluetooth speaker, or enjoying one of Haris's cocktail creations. Haris is one of the smartest guys I know and a great friend.
Brian Hoffman
Groomsman
Brian and I met at college at RIT towards the end of freshman year. We were in a group together for a programming class project. Brian and I started to hang out a lot the rest of that year and became really good friends. We eventually were roommates together for the last year at RIT. After I received the job offer from Harris to move to Melbourne, they asked if I had anyone else who was interested and gave Brian the recruiters' contact information. Brian started at Harris a week after me and we ended up being roommates again at the Palm Bay house we rented.
Jeff Rhoades
Groomsman
Jeff and I also met working together at Harris. Jeff is the type of friend who is always down for whatever anyone is up to. Jeff is a generous friend who always wants everyone to have a great time together. Whether it's going to a brewery, hanging out at someone's house or going out for dinner, Jeff is a reliable, great friend. Jeff's sense of humor and endless amount of hilarious stories mean you're never bored when hanging out with him.
Mike Singleton
Groomsman
I met Mike in college through Brian. Mike and Brian knew each other freshman year and were roommates together in a triple for sophomore year which was 3 floors up from my dorm room. There was a lot of time spent playing video games, shooting airsoft guns at empty pizza boxes and watching movies (usually Bad Boys, Beerfest or Super Troopers) in that triple. There were also many fun nights spent at the house in Scottsville having bon-fires and shooting empty bottles with BB guns. Even though Mike lives in New York, we still see each other quite often, whether it's a long weekend in Key West or visiting each other in NY or Florida.
Rich Wilson
Groomsman
Rich and I also met through working together at Harris. Rich was new to the team I was on so I helped train him. One of my first memories with Rich was those training sessions when I asked what he was doing that night and he said he was going to the movies with his girlfriend (now wife), Dana. My first thought was, this guy must be pretty okay if someone else likes him, and the truth is, he's more than okay. Rich is a great friend who is always there for you. Rich lives right around the corner from me now with his wife and two great boys, who will be the ring bearers.