Tuff and Kyla
Bride and Groom
Tuff Jordan Henson
Groom
Fun facts about Tuff: - Tuff played bass for a folk rock band called Dear Doris - Once started an avalanche on Mount Nebo - Used to be an airsoft sniper - Played in a steel drum band throughout high school - Loves art and art history. His favorite visual artist is Van Gogh, and his current favorite composers are Gustav Mahler and Charles Ives - Has a degree in music composition with a minor in computer science - Pets he wanted as a child include a tortoise, falcon, massive fruit bat, and iguana - Built his own laser harp - Loves to cook and wants to perfect his pizza recipe before moving to east coast - Has a talent for tying knots - Wants to have a salsa garden and a tea garden - Writes computer algorithms that write modern music for composers
Kyla Elise Johnson
Bride
Fun facts about Kyla: - Kyla survived 4 days in the wilderness without food, water, shelter, or fire-making supplies and became a TA for a wilderness survival course - Likes to collect fossils - Is starting a PhD program in the Biomedical Sciences at Rutgers this fall to study Lyme disease - Has two first author publications and is working on a third - Favorite movies are Mulan and Wonder Woman - Has a degree in Epidemiology and a minor in Microbiology - Has a job articulating skeletons. Her favorite projects have been an American Alligator and a Spinner Dolphin - Won poetry awards in high school - Played viola in the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Symphony Orchestra - Used to locate lost historical cemeteries for the Rhode Island Historical Society
Together
The Happy Couple
Interesting facts about our relationship: - We grew up 2,889 miles apart - Dated long-distance for three years - Have a scrapbook for things we've crossed off our bucket list. Things we still want to do include goat yoga, white water rafting, and picking huckleberries - Want to turn our fossil collection into a cool wall - Want a big garden - Love to go camping - Like to plan themed dinner parties. We've already thrown a sushi party and next will be a Harry Potter themed party - Tuff proposed in the mountains - We're moving to the NYC area in August - We knew we were going to get married before we started dating - We once followed a raccoon down an alley thinking it was a stray cat and it chased us across the parking lot