Laura & Mike
Wedding Squad
Courtney (Schoenemann)Vosburgh
Matron of Honor
Courtney and I have been holding hands and making memories since we were 4 years old at the softball field. We have been friends through every stage of our lives -- from barbies to boyfriends, little league to college ball, awkward braces stages to brides, dancing on bars to supporting each other's "grown up" careers, tears to laughter, we've been through it all. In high school, she was voted Most Beautiful, Most Likely to Succeed, Prom Queen, Homecoming Queen, Miss Congeniality, Most Likely to Rule the World, Most Preferred Person to Hang Out With Over Laura, and Most Likely to Have the Greatest Wedding on Earth, but she promised me she'll let me have the limelight on Jan. 18 and will hold my hand that day like she has our entire lives.
Kelly (Lindley) Cabler
Matron of Honor
Kelly and I met when we were 12 years old. She came up to me at our older sisters' softball game and asked me if I wanted to "walk to Grandmother's house." It was weird, but it worked and we've been friends ever since. She was a terrible influence in high school and for some reason my parents think the world of her still to this day. We ended up playing softball together through tournament ball and against each other in college. She's the first person I call with good or bad news, calms my crazy, and has forgiven me for having to miss her wedding and to me that’s the most important thing—being there for me when I need her and forgiving me when I can't be there for her. True test of friendship.
Sara Little
Bridesmaid
Myyyyy sister. Sara is in my phone as Sawah because when I was little I could say my R’s and she has never let me forget it. Sara and I are completely different people. For example, she rolled me under the coffee table and hid me when I was a baby and I would never do that to a baby. And one time she said I could play with her and her friend, threw a deck of cards in the air, yelled 52 CARD PICK UP and locked me out of the house and I would never do that to a child. Sara can make friends with anyone, sees the good in every situation, is annoyingly deep sometimes, but reminds me to not be so black and white all the time and for that I’m semi grateful. Besides the childhood bullying, she’s always built me up and I’m excited for her to continue to let me be the favorite child Jan. 18.
Caitlyn (Ivy) Dooling
Bridesmaid
Ivy (now Dooling) is MY GIRL! We knew we were meant to be friends the moment we met the summer before freshman year at UTSA and realized neither of us had applied to UTSA and thought we were automatically accepted when we signed our scholarship papers. While most would have seen that as a red flag, we saw it as fate. We ended up living together through college and I am who I am today through much much understanding and support through some really solid and not so solid comments, decisions, jokes, and memories as we grew up. I like to think I helped shape her for the better too but she’s from East Texas and was a good Christian girl who never cussed and realistically I was lucky she stuck around. I’ve been fortunate to call her a best friend for 11 years now and she is truly amazing.
Caitlin Murphy
Bridesmaid
Caitlin and I became friends through working at UTSA post-college. The first time we met, she thought I was an intern telling her what to do and didn’t like me for a few months. We worked together for 3 years at UTSA together and had very similar paths and things happen in our lives from 2013-2016 and I wouldn't have been able to make it through those years without her. When she asked me to be a bridesmaid in her wedding, she used the term "helped her find her worth" but she has no idea how influential she was in my post-college years prior to moving to Tucson. I am the person who was able to pull Mike because of everything we went through, her helping me learn MY worth, and our constant support of each other. She’s also an unbelievable travel partner so that helps.
Morgan (Luksa) McIntyre
Bridesmaid
LOL - is all I can do when I think about my relationship with Morgan. This girl was my go-to throughout college as she was much more mature in life and made way wiser decisions than I for 4 years. I truly do not know why she put up with me and Ivy in college but not sure we really gave her a choice either. We played together at UTSA and while she was a great teammate on the field, she is an unbelievable friend and teammate off the field and has had my back for the last 11 years. Our personalities couldn't have been more different through college, but she stuck with me and has turned into one of the most incredible relationships I could hope for in a friend. I also really love her husband and copied off of him in our business classes and Mike and him have turned in to total bros.
Alaina Byars
Bridesmaid
My AB babyyyy! I've never been able to figure out why, but AB brings out my deeper, emotional, spiritual side just by her being her—that side is a rare sighting and it was hard for me to even type that. She is the biggest believer in fate, destiny, and love and I couldn't be more grateful for her. She is the epitome of everything happens for a reason—her experience at the first University she attended lead her to UTSA and a dinner with her when she first moved catapulted us into an extremely strong friendship. I am not happy about her first college coach being a psycho and making her miserable but I am happy it made her go to UTSA. Be on the lookout for her rapping at the wedding as she is a wildly talented amateur rapper.
Nikki (Goff) DeVries
Bridesmaid
Nikki is crazy. Nikki is my only friend who has ever made me look sane. She is also the friend who would knock someone out for you no questions asked then figure out the story later. She has a giving heart (and a giving kidney -- ya girl donated a kidney to her dad. How cool is that??), a strong personality, and a bold sense of humor. We all need a Nikki in our lives and I was lucky to meet my Nikki when she transferred to UTSA our sophomore year of college and got to play together through senior year. Life comes at you fast and hard sometimes but Nikki has always been and always will be there to take life on with you.
Kristin Kappler
Bridesmaid
One of the the most pure and beautiful souls you could have in a friend--Kristin Kappler is such a blessing. Kapp has never met a stranger, genuinely loves everyone, and delivers the hard things you need to hear from time to time while always making it clear that you are her priority as a friend. Bless her for living with me, Ivy, and AB our senior year and not killing us but we somehow convinced her to be friends with us as "grown ups" too. She's the friend I call and open with the line of "okay so...can you tell me if I'm wrong here...?" And she’s always right. Try to find her at the reception—she’ll be the one getting drinks for everyone and giving someone therapy before she goes and makes my parents love her more than me.
Ben Sellers
Best Man
I met Ben when we were 12. We weren’t friends from ages 12-13. I guess it had something to do with the times that I prank called his house to make fun of him for not having a girlfriend. We were sort of friends from ages 13-14. We bonded over our mutual love of the Diamondbacks but I still hadn’t forgiven him for lighting my family’s Christmas tree on fire. At age 15 we put our petty squabbling behind us, figuring that we could accomplish so much more by having each other’s backs and working together as a team. Nowadays you can find us teaming up on fishing trips but not catching anything and teaming up on hunting trips but not shooting anything.
Ben Jalowsky
Groomsman
I met Ben when we were 12. Our acquaintanceship started when he famously invited our entire middle school class to his bar mitzvah, minus four people. I was one of those four people. In the formative years since the non-invite, Ben and I have been steadfast traveling companions. During our travels we’ve made unquestionable progress towards improving the opinions of Americans among the locals of Mexico, England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Thailand, and Brazil.
Joey Rohe
Groomsman
Joey and I met at age 12 in the midst of the highly competitive Tucson middle school baseball scene. Our baseball talents carried us all the way to the University of Arizona, where we played flag football. Our friendship blossomed in college and but it really culminated after graduation, as our 6-consecutive years of male roommatehood lasted into the early part of our 30’s (an impressive run even by today’s standards).
Alex Seery
Groomsman
I met Alex when we were 18 and attending the University of Arizona. The Grover Cleveland of roommates, Alex lived with me for two nonconsecutive terms. During that time we built our friendship despite nearly killing each other in heated 3AM arguments over our opposite views in the great debates of our generation. Who is the better NBA Jam team: Stockton/Malone or Anderson/Skiles? Who is the better band: Coldplay or Rush? Who killed the fish in our apartment’s aquarium: you or me? Some would say that only morons would argue about such things, but Alex and I know better and the debates rage on to this day.
Joe Goldstein
Groomsman
I met Joe when we were 12. Joe will always have a special place in my heart because in middle school he used his influence as a popular kid to get me, by all accounts an unpopular kid, invited to the coolest 8th grade party of the year. In high school he used his influence as a popular teenager to get me, by all accounts an unpopular teenager, invited to the coolest 11th grade party of the year. As adults, he used his influence as a respected member of the country club to get me, by all accounts a non-respected, non-member of the country club invited to the coolest golf tournament of the year. I’m not actually sure what I’m bringing to the table in this friendship.
Spencer Sellers
Groomsman
I met Spencer when I was 15. Our first meeting was brief. Spencer was an up-and-coming employee of the Cutco knife corporation working in the fast paced, high stakes world of door-to-door knife sales. While my father and I were deeply moved by Spencer’s demonstration of a cheese knife that could cut through rope, we promptly told Spencer that we weren’t interested in his wares and sent him on his way. Fast-forward one year, and I was reintroduced to Spencer at Lake Apache. Spencer pulled up to the shoreline in a boat and introduced himself and his travelling companions to our group with a ceremonious half front-flip off the front of the boat. He landed face first on the cobble strewn shoreline below, and it was at that moment that I knew I needed to be friends with him.
Matt Vargas
Groomsman
I met Matt when I was 16. We met at Lake Apache just seconds after Spencer executed his now legendary faceplant. Matt stepped off the boat, stepped over Spencer, who was then lying on the ground in a state of semi-consciousness, and introduced himself to me with a normal handshake. We became fast friends at the lake and enjoyed many more laughs over the course of the trip and over the 15 years since. I’ve never met a person with a quicker wit than Matt’s. Any and all occasions are made more enjoyable by his subtly delivered puns, spot-on imitations, and perfectly placed movie quotes.
Kamron Hasan
Groomsman
I met Kamron when I was 12. At 5’10 with an astounding amount of body hair, Kamron was a dominant force at center on our Orange Grove Middle School basketball team. Now a 5’10 adult with an astounding amount of body hair, I’m told Kamron is a capable shooting guard in the YMCA men’s over-30 league. In college, Kamron played an instrumental role in hoisting my roommates and I over the wall of the Delta Tau Delta frat house to get us into their annual Halloween parties. For legal purposes, I should note that Kamron is a lawyer now and can no longer condone such elicit behaviors. On a tender note, Kamron has always been a loyal and down-to earth friend. Even though we’re now separated by 1,300 miles I know he’ll always pick up the phone if I call, day or night.
Barney Little-Wendell
Groomsdane
I met Barney when I was 27. He took some time to let his guard down, but I can safely say that he’s now one of my most loyal companions and closest confidants. A solid guy overall.