Wedding Party

Melanie Thomas

Bride

Braden Van Camp

Groom

Kelsey Farrell

Bridesmaid

College friend from Melanie's First Year Experience (FYE) hall at Michigan Tech. Mel and Kelsey bonded over Grey's Anatomy watch parties where they would split a pint of Ben and Jerry's picked out at the Wadsworth Cafe (and fellow 2025 bride!)

Philip Schaub

Best Man

College Friend. Became bests friends because all of our other friends dropped out of college. Phil thought Braden was a "weirdo" at first but was desperate for friends.

Corrina Kostrzewa

Bridesmaid

College friend from Melanie's First Year Experience (FYE) hall at Michigan Tech. Always down for all kinds of adventure, dance parties and being the moral compass of our friend group (along with Kelsey!)

Justin Owen

Groomsman

College friend. Justin and Braden kept their love for Wisconsin strong whilst at Michigan Tech. Justin consumes an unhealthy amount of dairy.

Maddie Barrie

Bridesmaid

College friend from Melanie's days of being a RA at Michigan Tech. Melanie knew her and Maddie would be bff's when someone was describing a gluten free, soy free, dairy free ice cream available and Maddie looked at Melanie and said "So ice?" and Melanie burst out laughing.

Kyle Koonce

Groomsman

College friend. Kyle is the only other good poker player from our college house and also fell off his bike once and it looked painful.

Tina Thermadam

Bridesmaid

Childhood friend. Melanie and Tina met at church, where Melanie once threw pudding on Tina and Tina is looking forward to throwing pudding at Melanie one day (maybe at the wedding?)

Felix Cloutier

Groomsman

College Friend and Flying Frenchman. Felix is a man of many talents. If you see a small plane in the air with a Canadian flag following it's probably him.

Cassie Van Camp

Bridesmaid

Sister of the Groom. Melanie would ask Cassie to get boba from Jasmine Leaf in attempts to bond and likes to think they worked (Cassie may think otherwise).

Gregory Thomas

Groomsman

Brother of Bride. Greg and Braden share a bond of having an older sister that would rather say something funny than nice.

Mathew Thomas

Groomsman

Brother of Bride. Mathew translates Malayalam for Braden so now he knows that when people call him a "pottan" that they are being nice.

Lexi Hameister

Bridesmaid

Sister of the Groom. Melanie and Lexi bonded over both being eldest daughters and will occasionally crack jokes about it. New mom to the sweetest boy, Mr. Theo!

Paul Hameister

Groomsman

Brother in Law of Groom. Paul was a great addition to the family, he somehow makes Lexi be nice every once in a while which is incredible. He owns too many weapons to say anything unkind about him.

Callie Van Camp

Bridesmaid

Sister of the Groom. Huge animal lover (so much so that she made a career of it!) and an expert at ordering good coffee flavors! Also a fellow 2025 bride.

Eric Charbonneau

Groomsman

Brother in Law of Groom. Eric drove 2 hours to just have the opportunity to meet the Van Camps for the first time. Close competition between his love of his dog Grace and Callie.

Morgan Miller

Bridesmaid

Wisconsin friend of Melanie and Braden. Melanie and Morgan went on a road trip to Indiana three weeks after hanging out with each other for the first time and the rest is history!

Jon Stopple

Groomsman

Friend of Bride and Groom. Jon and Braden run their own company and is Melanie's personal career advice giver.