Wedding Party
Dani Velarde
Maid of Honor
Dani is Ciera’s little sister! She’s currently finishing up her senior year at UT (Go Longhorns!!) where she is a Kappa Delta, just like her big sister :) Dani & Ciera have a shared love of Disney, TikTok, and their family dog Luke. Jury’s still out on who Luke loves more (probably whoever is giving him cheese at the time tbh).
Erin Gartland
Triplet of Honor
How could you pick just one sibling to be a best man when your siblings are triplets? Two-year-old Dan wasn't exactly pleased when Erin, Kevin and Christian burst on the scene in 1994 but now he can't imagine life without them. When her younger (by one and two minutes) brothers would team up on Erin, Dan would have her back (usually).
Addy Goff
Bridesmaid
Addy & Ciera met when they both were interning for Martha Stewart. Their friendship started by having lunch together on the building’s rooftop (shoutout Lunch Bunch!) and six years later, they’re still going strong — you can often find them texting each other about Bravo, drinking Aperol spritzes or planning their next workout together. Fun fact: Addy ran with Ciera during Ciera’s first 10K in 2019!!
Kevin Gartland
Triplet of Honor
Dan and Kevin are the two Gartland kids who didn't acquire much musical talent but they were two of the most sought-after caddies at the Patterson Club. They made a good team when paired together but of course there was some competition to see who could command the biggest tips.
Amanda LaBrot
Bridesmaid
Amanda & Ciera met when they lived next door to each other freshman year of college (Dirty Schurz for life!), but it wasn’t until they roomed together in a shoebox of a room when studying abroad in London that they become bonded forever. Oh, the stories they could tell from those five months! (Honestly, just ask them about their study abroad experience — they still won’t shut up about it seven years later.)
Christian Gartland
Triplet of Honor
Most of Dan and Christian’s arguments during their childhood were over who got to use the the PlayStation. They're still big video game enthusiasts but now that they have their own consoles, they get along better.
Erika Cervantes
Bridesmaid
Erika & Ciera got off to a bumpy start back in 1993 (legend has it Erika thought Ciera was competition for baby of the family vibes) but thankfully these cousins got past their troubles and became the best of friends as they got older. Ciera would like to personally thank the Jonas Brothers for truly bringing Erika & her together.
Christian Beaulieu
Groomsman
Christian and Dan were paired together randomly to be freshman year roommates at Fordham and have been friends ever since. They even lived together in Manhattan for more than three years after graduation, mostly watching sports on TV. Christian leaving New York for a job in Baltimore in 2018 was bittersweet for Dan. While he was obviously sad to see Christian go, it gave him the opportunity to ask Ciera to move in with him and allow them to grow even closer (even though Ciera hated the bachelor pad touches of Dan and Christian's apartment).
Erika Trombley
Bridesmaid
Ciera & Erika were both in Kappa Delta together at Mizzou (AOT!!) and these two out-of-state J-Schoolers immediately hit it off. After rooming together during their first summer interning in NYC and sharing their first big-girl apartment together in Bushwick (definitely don’t miss those roaches!!), Ciera considers Erika her NYC ride-or-die. In fact, Ciera is confident she couldn’t have survived this crazy city without her!
Mike Sheehan
Groomsman
Mike and Dan have been friends since elementary school, when they played on the same Little League team. Even though school redistricting sent them to schools on opposite sides of town in sixth grade, they’d still spend their weekends and summers together, playing wiffle ball (the only sport Dan can beat Mike at) and fishing (at the spot where Dan ended up proposing to Ciera).
Kathryn Thiel
Bridesmaid
It’s a true testament to Kathryn & Ciera's friendship that they have stayed close through their braces phase in middle school, all the drama of high school, going to colleges in different states, and then living halfway across the country from each other in adulthood. Through all the 15 (!!!) years they’ve known each other, Ciera knows she can text Kathryn about anything and pick up exactly where they left off.
Rory Masterson
Groomsman
Dan and Rory spent many long nights together in the basement office of the Fordham newspaper, putting together pages for their respective sections (Sports for Dan, Opinion for Rory) but mostly just goofing around with their fellow editors. Whether it's watching a basketball game or catching a concert, they still have much fun together as they did eating room-temperature pizza in the McGinley Center basement while waiting for edits to their headlines and photo captions.
Sarah Grill
Bridesmaid
It’s one of the biggest regrets of Ciera’s college experience that she & Sarah weren’t close during their shared time at Mizzou. But thankfully, fate stepped in and once Sarah moved to NYC, they became fast friends, and Ciera can count on Sarah from anything to going with her on a last-minute brunch date to accompanying her on a trip out of the city to go apple-picking. Rumor has it she likes Connecticut even more than Ciera & Dan do!
Will Grathwohl
Groomsman
You can probably tell by the photo that Dan and Will go way back. They might not share some of the same interests — Will knows as much about sports as Dan knows about math and computers — but maybe that's why they're such good friends. They always learn something new when they hang out together. No matter how long it's been since they last saw each other, whether due to an international border between them or a pandemic, they're always able to pick up where they left off.