Wedding Party

Andrea Carpio

Bridesmaid

Andrea Facts: • Andrea and Laura have been friends since 4th grade or 7th grade, depending on which of them you ask. • Andrea, Chrissy and Laura created their own Friendship Club after watching the movie The Craft together in 9th grade, because they are very cool. The Friendship Club is still active. • Andrea was Junior year Homecoming Queen in high school and accidentally hit a baby while throwing candy during the parade. • Andrea is a talented artist, former podcast producer, and now works with middle school students at an alternative school in San Francisco. • It is hard to overstate how cool and funny Andrea is.

Claire Weber

Groomswoman

Claire Facts: • Claire is close friends with both Travis and Laura, and there was brief contention over whose side of the wedding party she would stand up in. • Claire and Travis met in 2010 but became good friends in 2012 after she and Dieter spent an evening covertly convincing Travis to move to Milwaukee while he was in town visiting his friend Erin. • Claire and Laura met in 2005 on Claire’s apartment rooftop, when a Riverwest basement show was coincidentally relocated there. • Claire likes sports. She is the recipient of the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Academic Excellence Award for Waupaca High School, year 2000. • Claire enjoys craft beer, road trips with friends, comedy, and helping sensitive and dramatic teens as a school counselor at Milwaukee School of the Arts.

Christine Wittwer

Bridesmaid

Chrissy Facts: • Chrissy and Laura met in 1st grade and were in the same Brownie troop. • Chrissy is a member of the totally non-dorky Friendship Club (see above). • Chrissy, Andrea and Laura recorded statistics for the boy’s basketball team Freshman year in high school for some reason. • During a lean post-college year, Chrissy, Laura and Collin shared a run-down apartment in Riverwest where the faucet turned on with a wrench. They're all doing much better now. • Chrissy and Laura have spoken in one form or another every day for at least the last 15 years. • Chrissy is mom to spirited, hilarious 6-year-old Matteo and sweet, cuddly 3-year-old Everett (see below).

Dieter Barnes

Groomsman

Dieter Facts: • Dieter hit it off with Travis the night that he and Claire convinced him to move to Milwaukee (see above). • Dieter met Laura in 2005 at a house party where Collin was doing front handsprings in a hallway. • Dieter is a key member of Dudes’ Camping Gang, comprised of Dieter, Travis, Ian and Jeremy. • Dieter enjoys craft beer and bogarts beef jerky. • Dieter has impressive calf muscles, owns a shocking amount of records, works slingin’ envelopes to businesses, and is the proud father of Milo and Wilbury, who are dogs.

Collin Weber

Bridesman

Collin Facts: • Collin and Laura met at a college party in 2004. Their Best Friendship Anniversary is St. Patrick’s Day, 2005. • Collin and Laura moved to Oakland, CA together in a U-Haul when they were 23 and 25, respectively, with no apartment or jobs lined up. Somehow it worked out okay. • Collin and Laura were roommates for six years straight in the 2000s and got into all manner of shenanigans and adventures together. • Collin and his partner Brandon own a successful and popular vintage clothing store in Manhattan, NYC and have been profiled in impressive publications such as Vogue. • Collin is a published origamist, a sewing wizard, and a decent classical piano player. • In a true show of best friendship, Collin will be sewing Laura’s wedding dress!

Ian Ehrnstrom

Groomsman

Ian Facts: • Ian and Travis met in 1996 on the school bus on the way to a marching band competition. Ian was sitting alone with headphones on and Travis asked what he was listening to. They bonded over their shared love of mid-90s alternative rock. • Ian and Travis embarked on an ill-fated and poorly planned trip to San Francisco when they were 18, where they slept in an alley in Fisherman’s Wharf, were chased by a stranger, and met the crew of the late 90s VH1 show Bands on the Run. • Ian, Travis and Laura refer to themselves as “The Three Musketeers” in private because they are very cool. • Ian can play guitar, drums, bass and flute (all very well), and has a certificate in Geographic Information Systems Mapping. He has worked in a map library and is very tall.

Megan Knoll

Bridesmaid

Megan Facts: • Megan and Laura met when they were 19 and 21, respectively, when Laura used her I.D. to help Megan sneak into a show at Cactus Club. • In college, Megan and Laura shared an apartment off of Brady Street which they called The Pabst Mansion… Jr. • Megan is cat mom to the big, beautiful Mr. Party Cat, who was once mistaken for a dog by a child, and referred to by a stranger as a “gorgeous beast”. • Megan is a talented interior designer, has generously helped Laura unpack, organize and decorate more than one apartment, and now works as a Special Education teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools.

Sandy Ehrnstrom

Groomswoman

Neil Gravander

Bridesman

Neil Facts: • Neil and Laura have known each other since they were 0 and 1, respectively. • Neil is a current or former fan of the following: Super Nintendo, He-Man, filmmaking, going to grad school, constructing and painting intricate and elaborate film sets, spiked hair, 90s band posters, super wide leg jeans, and dinosaurs. • Neil went to Prom with both Chrissy and Andrea in the years 2000 and 2001 (see above). • Neil is a dedicated Professor of Film at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is hard at work completing his first full length film.

Kaylee Jo Francisco

Flower Girl

Kaylee Facts: • Kaylee is Travis’s beloved niece, daughter of his sister Alison. • Kaylee enjoys Minnie Mouse and John Deere tractors. • Kaylee will play hide-and-seek with you for two hours straight until you distract her with coloring.

Griff Sellnow

Bridesman

Everett Wittwer

FLOWER THROWER

Everett Facts: • Everett is the adorable son of Christine Wittwer (see above). • Everett enjoys Paw Patrol and was a Swamp Monster for Halloween. • Everett assigned himself the title of Flower Thrower since he’s already been a Ring Bearer.

Ella Barker

Flower Girl

Ella Facts: • Ella is the adventurous daughter of Laura’s cousin Deanna. • Ella is a fearless swimmer, and enjoys her grandparents’ dog Bailey and playing outside. • Ella’s interests also include bugs, rocks, camping and dinosaurs.

Biscuit Gravander-McDonnell

Flower Kitty (Will Be Celebrating at Home)

Biscuit Facts: • Biscuit was born in an alley in Oakland, CA, and flew in an airplane to move to Milwaukee. • Biscuit is obsessed with both her dry food and trying to groom Travis’s beard.