Julianne & Zachary
Wedding Party
Kathryn Kononchik
Maid of Honor
Kathryn and Julianne have been best friends since the first day of high school field hockey tryouts in the summer of 2004. While they both didn't make the team, they built a friendship that has withstood the test of time. These days, they enjoy taking trips to visit each other and they have fond memories of a grand Pacific Northwest vacation to San Francisco, Napa, Portland, and Seattle in the summer of 2018. During that trip, on a whim, Julianne drove Kathryn up Mount Rainier, much to Kathryn's dismay. Luckily Kathryn forgave Julianne and has kindly agreed to be her Maid of Honor, a pact these sisterless girls made in high school.
Adam Minuto
Best Man
Adam is the groom’s younger brother and the Best Man. He and Zach grew up staging epic battles between all of their beanie babies and doing incredibly sick roller blade tricks in the driveway. Together, they invented a hybrid sport that combined baseball, basketball, and water polo, which was immortalized in the 1998 film, "Baseketball." Now that they’ve matured, they enjoy making the occasional cocktail and five course dinner together. Don’t tell anyone, but Zach prefers Adam to his twin sister Natalie.
Joseph Crescimanno
Man of Honor
Joseph is the bride's younger brother. They have fond memories of playing in the sand at Cape Cod, ice skating in New Hampshire, and eating lobster in Maine. A brilliant mechanic, he is solely responsible for keeping Julianne's 1995 Buick Park Avenue Ultra and 2006 Subaru Forester running well past their primes. He is restoring a 1950s International Harvester pick-up truck, a 1970s Triumph Bonneville (their dad's old motorcycle), and a 1983 Toyota Corolla. He is a proud dog dad to sweet and energetic German Shepherd puppy, Holley (named after the carburetor company, of course).
Natalie Minuto
Best Woman
Natalie is the groom’s younger sister and the Best Broad a.k.a. Best Woman. As a teen, she was better at the cello than Zach, but she has her older brother to thank for her impeccable taste in music. She is the only sibling who inherited whichever gene makes you enjoy exercise; after becoming a certified yoga teacher, she successfully cajoled the groom into taking more than one of her yoga classes. Don’t tell anyone, but Zach prefers Natalie to her twin brother Adam.
James Rasaiah
Bridesman
James and Julianne met while working at the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School. Together, they led the Center's Green Team including the production of a comedic instructional video on how to compost and recycle in the office. James and Julianne both have an appreciation for the finer things in life, like a well-executed espresso, a great biscotti recipe, and meal at a nice restaurant. James and Julianne are an unstoppable duo for trivia, or as this ex-pat calls it, "Pub Quiz."
Tara Grieco-Glascott
Groomswoman
Tara and Zach first met before either of them were born, on their mothers’ frequent pregnant walks around the neighborhood. They spent their childhoods together making “potions” from debris they found in the backyards, building blanket forts, and reenacting their favorite scenes from Disney movies and/or Power Rangers. After graduating high school, Tara followed Zach to the College of the Holy Cross, where she was floor mates with the bride their first year; they’re all still besties.
Lillian Wennberg
Bridesmaid
Lily and Julianne met while working together at Harvard Law School and later lived together in Somerville. Fast friends, Lily and Julianne are so in tune with one another they often finish each other's sentences. Julianne has fond memories of sitting on the couch with Lily in their non-airconditioned 3rd floor apartment in the sweltering heat, all the windows thrown open, each drinking a freezing cold beer, talking about life and dreaming about the future.
Lance Pauker
Groomsman
Lance and Zach met in a highly prestigious program for gifted infants and found they shared an affinity for classic works of literature, such as The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar and Goodnight Moon. By the time they reached fourth grade, they founded their own nation, Tisimbe, on the firm belief that Kids Rock. As adults, they reconnected over their shared love of aimless conversational podcasts and exploring New York on foot.
Stephany Bencharit
Bridesmaid
Steph and Julianne met while working at Harvard Law School. Steph and Julianne's desks were right across from each other in an office suite that was more like an expressway to the kitchen. While they would always get yelled at for talking to colleagues too much, both of them firmly maintain that it was everyone else that was coming to talk to them! When the HLS director hired Julianne, they told Steph she would be getting a suite-mate, and Steph was excited. The director replied, "well we're not hiring you a little friend." Well, joke's on them because that's exactly what they did. While Steph always says, John Stamos is our most important Greek, Steph is my most important Greek!
Vincent Stilletti
Groomsman
Vince and Zach connected at the Saints Phillip and James Youth Group, over a shared belief that following the Lord should be dope as hell. They played in a variety of highly sought-after musical acts in high school until they reached the legal drinking age and turned their creative energies toward brewing beer. They remained friends during Zach’s time in New York, when Vince routinely plied Zach with free wine and Zach dragged Vince to numerous life-changing concerts.
Kelsey Ryan
Bridesmaid
Kelsey and Julianne worked at Harvard Law School in two different departments, but when their closest work friends happened to go on extended vacations/honeymoons at the same time (one being co-bridesmaid, Steph), they set Kelsey and Julianne up on a friend-date at Wrap Pro on Mass Ave. Kelsey and Julianne became fast friends when they realized they shared a love of travel, cooking, the Camberville area where the lived, and trying out new local spots. They always look forward to attending Somerville Greek Fest together every year!
Michael Kennedy
Groomsman
Mr. Kennedy was the first friend who introduced Zach to movies—excuse me, films—that weren’t about talking animals or children’s sports teams. Both Mike and Zach are equally fanatic about curating a party playlist, and they both appreciate a gently grilled clam. While life has divided them geographically, they still take time out of their days to send each other the absolute worst content they find on the internet.
Courtney Lesoon
Bridesmaid
Courtney and Julianne met in the first few days of college at Holy Cross. They both lived on Wheeler 3 and had an affinity for procrastination, late-night chats sitting in the hallway, and running a tight ship as Kimball Captains in the campus dining hall. After Courtney spent a few years abroad after college, she and Julianne reconnected during a trip to LA, where Courtney was living at the time. Once Courtney started grad school in Cambridge, she and Julianne would get together to make dinner every few weeks--most often cacio e pepe!
Matthew Trachy
Groomsman
Matt and Zach were good friends for much of college, but their friendship accelerated when Matt moved into Zach’s room at the end of his junior year DC semester and claimed squatter’s rights. They performed routinely at the school’s music showcases. As suite-mates during their senior year, they routinely engaged in unbelievably profound philosophical discussions, most of which devolved into shouting matches about the Red Sox and Yankees. It is rumored they discovered the meaning of life AND figured out how to solve world hunger in the same night, but then got tired and forgot both.