Wedding Party
Celine Chin
Bride
Nick Brennan
Groom
Annie Edge
Maid of Honor
Relation: Friend Favorite Memory: One of my favorite memories is our Utah trip to visit national parks with Celine and Nick. Wading through the narrows at Zion, staying up to (attempt) night sky photography, and hiking through the hoodoos at Bryce Canyon with them are some of my favorite memories ever! We had to do an impromptu cross country road trip to get home from Nevada, and although we spent the last week of the trip sick and cooped up in a small car, I can still say it was a great trip and would do it all again. Fun Fact: Since going home to Oregon was too far, I spent most Thanksgivings during college at Celine's house.
Kerri Brennan
Best Person
Relation: Sister of groom Favorite Memory: Donut tour with Nick and Celine Fun Fact: I love chihuahuas and coffee
Adam Chin
Bridesman
Relation: Bride's brother Favorite Memory: Used to create and act out stories using beanie babies Fun Fact: Danced in kpop covers in college
Bianica Sunshine Power
Groomswoman
Relation: Cousin of the groom Favorite Memory: I think one of my favorite memories with Nick was getting to be there when he moved into the Northeastern campus. I was so excited that another family member was about to become a "Bostonian" and hopefully fall in love with the city as much as I did. Lucky for me, he fell in love with the city AND a girl so he's stuck around this place I call home. Fun Fact: Probably less of a "fun" fact and more of a best moment of my life, but I had the honor of running the Boston Marathon for Boston Children's Hospital and personally raised over $36,000 for charity. Hands down one of the best days of my life.
Madeleine (Maddie) Pronovost
Bridesmaid
Relation: Early childhood friend of Celine's Favorite Memory: My favorite memory spent with Celine and Nick together was when they came to visit me over the summer of 2022 for a couple of days via the Boston-Provincetown ferry. This was my first time getting to spend more than just a meal with both Celine and Nick! It was great to show them around my stomping grounds, parade ourselves through the colorful streets and shops of Ptown, eat delicious lobster/chowders/fried seafoods, walk along Nauset Beach, ride bikes on the Cape Cod Rail Trail, and peruse the booths at the Wellfleet Flea Market. I really got a sense of how comfortable Nick made Celine feel, how well he knows her, and how much she absolutely adores Nick. I'm so grateful my oldest friend has found someone as wonderful as Nick to spend the rest of her life with! Fun Fact: I am a traveling physical therapist, which allows me to work anywhere in the country! So far I've worked in Maine, Massachusetts, New York, and most recently Alaska. It's been a great way to scratch the travel itch, meet new people, experience different cultures and see the natural beauty of America!
Thomas Joseph (TJ) Brazda
Groomsman
Relation: "Favorite" Cousin (self-described) Favorite Memory: Our Bolivia trip - from that force of nature, Modesta, coming into our lives to thinking the revolution was kicking off in La Paz Fun Fact: 1997 New Jersey State Geography Bee champ or movie extra in "The Da Vinci Code". Out of respect to the bride and groom on their big day I'll only sign autographs at the after party.
Mariah Nuzzo
Bridesmaid
Relation: High school friend of Celine Favorite Memory: One of my favorite memories with Celine is walking half a dozen finger-puppets around the neighborhood and filming them in various locations as they "learned Newton's Laws of Motion" for our final physics project. For fun, I like to feed rays and sharks at the aquarium (no worries, no sharks in the pond in the picture). Another memory was staying up until midnight hand-painting patches for a cosplay the night before Anime Boston (luckily they dried quick!) Fun Fact: I like to feed rays and sharks at the aquarium. I also love aerial arts, my favorite is the lyra (aerial hoop).
Peter Zambetti
Groomsman
Relation: Nick's Oldest Friend Favorite Memory: Driving with Nick cross-country when I moved from New Jersey to Seattle. Rachel was there too and drove some of the way. Fun Fact: I recently climbed to Half-Dome in Yosemite Park
Michael Chau
Bridesman
Relation: College Roomie Favorite Memory: I am particularly fond of a moment early on in our friendship. That one time we stayed up until 4AM in Stetson West study room talking about life and being random. It’s such a simple memory but one I truly cherish because Celine showed me what true friendship was like. This memory solidified our friendship and I knew from then on, Celine was a real one. Fun Fact: Celine and I liked the same guy in freshman year and it made us closer friends.
Nicolas Knaian
Groomsman
Relation: Friends with both Nick and Celine from our time at Northeastern. Go Huskies! Favorite Memory: Back in 2014 before Celine came into the picture - in Nick's reckless years - I went on a trip with Nick and Jason to the Firefly Music Festival to gawk at The Foo Fighters, Outkast and other great musical acts. The only thing sweeter than the pound of dust we all had in our lungs by the end of the 4 days of camping and concert-going were the memories we all made along the way. In recent years there are many fun times Aline and I have had with Nick and Celine, such as hiking to the peak of Mount Osceola, skiing at Stowe, and having the honor of participating in their engagement at North Point Park. And then of course there's the pizza, but I'll concede to Ramon's expertise on that matter. Fun Fact: I love music and I'm a software engineer. During COVID I put these together to create a couple Spotify-based web apps. The first - https://www.musicrecs.net/ - is a game for sharing music recommendations anonymously with friends and guessing who submitted what. The second - https://albumcollections.herokuapp.com/ - gives better organizational power over your albums.
Ying Loo
Bridesmaid
Relation: Started off as Boston Chinatown CYI buddies, then reunited at Northeastern as AASIA mentees, and became college roomies (Willis 410 woo!), and now besties for lifeeeeee Favorite Memory: Favorite mem with Celine is our roomie late night girl talks <3, favorite mem with both Nick and Celine is going to be our coincidental Memorial Day Montreal trip where we went free museum hopping together! Fun Fact: I've memorized the lyrics to probably over a thousand pop songs
Ramon Sanfeliu Beneke
Groomsman
Relation: I met Nick because we lived on the same floor of IV freshman year. I am the best thing to ever happen to them. The sadness in their hearts when I left Boston is what has brought them even more together. Favorite Memory: Let me set the stage - It’s the middle of December 2012* and snow is falling hard. I graciously offered to give Nick a lift in a Zipcar to his cousins place because Nick was storing his car there (RIP Car). It was a cold, cold night when we got there, at which point Nick realized his trunk was frozen shut. I proceeded to go through the front, pull down the seats, and kick the trunk open to everyone’s surprise (I never told them what I was doing). This was at the beginning of our friendship and I think he knew how much of a gem I was from that moment onwards. Fun Fact: I act and speak with too much confidence, even when I am not fully sure if what I’m saying is factual (because in my mind, it’s definitely true). This has come to be known as a “Ramon Fact”. *Editor's Note: This event actually took place in December 2013 (See: Ramon Fact).