Ethan & Katharine
Wedding Party
Jack Greene
Officiant
We have known Jack basically the whole time we have known each other. It only felt right to ask him to marry us, considering he has been there for the entirety of this long and storied relationship. Jack is known for having the voice of an angel, the ski technique of a (very athletic) 65 year old and an affinity for eating all the parts of deer he catches. We are equal parts excited and nervous to hear what kind of stories Jack decides to tell all of you on wedding day.
Sam Call
Groomsman
Brother of the groom. Professional in the fields of math and SpongeBob trivia. Sam Call is known to fulfill the role of little brother with grace and pizazz. Legend has it that despite the math degree he has lost to Katharine in Blokus.
Ben Higgins
Groomsman
Ben Higgins has been a friend of Ethan's since childhood. They grew up romping around the town of Jefferson causing the kind of trouble that nerdy endurance athlete boys cause. Ben Higgins is known for repeatedly getting pulled over in high school and being the chief enabler of annual bad behavior on a certain island in Maine.
Hunter Lamphere
Groomsman
Hunter (inexplicably a.k.a. Goph) is another original hometown boy from Ethan's idyllic Jefferson childhood. He claims the sought after title of Ethan's first friend. The two of them spent significant amounts of their young lives hitting golf balls with aluminum bats, breaking the rules at their elementary school and bickering. Hunter is now a proud dog dad, a homeowner and a continued bad influence.
Ben Ogden
Groomsman
Brother of the bride, general menace. Ben is a welder, a barista, a car mechanic and a ski racer. In his free time he learns Kendama tricks to impress his vlog followers. Ben has strong feelings about the groomsmen all wearing leather vests and bolo ties, someone may need to remind him that he claims to be from Vermont which is fairly far removed from the wild west.
Austin Sheffer
Groomsman
A tele skier (kind of) and singlespeed mountain biker, Aussie occasionally makes questionable decisions. We think his decision to move to the Upper Valley from the South, though, was a good one. Aussie is the life of every dinner party and bike ride (until he bonks).
Jesse Norman
Groomsman
Jesse knows everyone and everyone knows Jesse. There's never a dull or quiet moment with J Bear. He played a huge part in getting us to finally try backcountry skiing (occasionally, he's right about things). Our favorite Wisconsinite.
Zach Berkow
Groomsman
Ethan's college roommate and forever the self-appointed "Freshman Wildcard" of the Dartmouth Cycling Team. Berkow (pronounced incorrectly as "Brr-Cow") was known for irking Ethan by intentionally wearing mismatched cycling kit. Katharine once got in deep trouble for leaving cracker crumbs in his bed (the most annoyed Berkow has ever been?). He is also a remarkably adept skier for a flatlander, it pains us to admit.
Charlotte Ogden
Maid of Honor
Charlotte is Katharine's little sister, sometimes known as Baby Char. She is a professional metal water bottle evangelist and a strong believer in poppy seed bagels. Char is engaged in an ongoing discussion with Ethan about the merits of eating the kiwi skin and is the only one who will occasionally humor his ping pong obsession. She is, above all else, a cat lady.
Mae Chalmers
Bridesmaid
Mae is Katharine's cousin, they grew up in Landgrove in what was effectively one big nuclear family. Mae survived Katharine regularly taunting her by pretending to be her guardian angel and forcing her into dance routines and other schemes. She was the perfect partner in peanut m&m theft, always remembering to smell everyone's breath to make sure it didn't give away hints of chocolate. Don't let Mae's new cosmopolitan Washington DC lifestyle fool you, she is still a Landgrove girl at heart and could chase down and catch any rooster, no matter how mean he is.
Pippin Evarts
Bridesmaid
Pippin hails from Landgrove and claims the illustrious title of Katharine's oldest friend. Katharine relied on her for daily moral support, style advice (desperately needed), and gossip from preschool through the end of high school. Katharine was once sent to the principal's office for bullying Pippin. If their friendship survived that, it seems likely it will persevere for life.
Sophie Hodges
Bridesmaid
Sophie was always a long distance friend of Katharine's until high school when she conveniently moved right into Katharine's bedroom and they became sisters for two excellent years. Sophie and Katharine experienced a lot living together but the the smoothie bomb stands out as a core memory. A rotten smoothie in a metal water bottle rolled under under Katharine's bed and fermented for months until it built up enough pressure to fire the top off the bottle with the force of a shotgun in the middle of the night. No one was injured in the smoothie incident but it was undoubtably a bonding experience, once the shock and disgust wore off.
Julia Kern
Bridesmaid
Julia and Katharine go way back as skiing rivals turned lifelong friends. Julia hails from the rowdy town of Waltham Massachusetts and infamously taught a naïve 8th grade Katharine how to grind on the dance floor right before the party at the end of 2012 Junior Nationals. Rumor has it she is still available to teach lessons if anyone needs to brush up before the wedding.
Hailey Swirbul
Bridesmaid
Hailey and Katharine ski raced against each other for all of high school and college and then spent lots of good weeks living together while racing in Europe after college. Hailey was there for everything from panic attacks to giggle attacks and all the in between that comes with professional ski racing. She is a civil engineer turned ski patroller and a self-care icon. Hailey's photo here comes from an infamous day while in Switzerland for ski races when she decided to take Katharine on an hour and a half hike up a mountain where every step was up to the knee in snow just so we could sled down "for our mental health".
Abby Call
Bridesmaid
Abby is the sister of Ethan and is only a little worse for the wear as a result. She'll be the first to tell you about the drama of growing up Ethan's little sister. Abby is a teacher of children and a very proud dog mom. Abby's softball career should come in handy when it comes to the bouquet toss, she'd better catch it since she's getting married herself only two weeks later!