Ruby & Matthew
Wedding Party
Lindsey Roberts
Maid of Honor
Where we met: Texas Tech Schools App, 2016 My pot-luck roommate turned best friend, biggest supporter, favorite person, secret keeper, and dorm-room accomplice. Shes helped me be the person I am, and honestly Matthew owed her big time for keeping me alive freshman year when my study-habits were so toxic. I don't know a life without my best friend, so lucky she understands and finds joy in my neurotic ways. Pictured the first weekend we met before red raider camp where I dragged her to a river she was flipped over on multiple times.
Jonathan Evans
Best Man
Where we met: A Call of Duty lobby who knows how many years ago We are still not completely sure how we came to meet, but we have been friends ever since. We have jumped from Call of Duty, to PUBG, to ARK Survival Evolved, to Day Z among other games and have been in at least one fantasy football league every year. Through thick and thin he has been by my side despite only meeting once in person right before our house got flooded back in the panorama.
Sandra Sembera
Matron of Honor
Where we met: Church in 2002 Sandra is my lifelong girl. My keeper of secrets and the person who showed me how to have fun. She knows more about me than anyone and has seen me through crazy times. I surely wouldn't be who I am now without her. She has kicked me out of the neurotic dream clouds more than once. Keeping me grounded and clear-headed is her specialty. Pictured, us heading to Survivor Girl Scout Camp.. she will never forgive me for that one.
Amber Hokama
Groomswoman
Where we met: Amber says we met at an event before college started, and while Im sure thats true, the place I remember meeting is EE319k at UT. In any case, we mostly met through a mutual friend of ours, and have been friends ever since. Somehow she has stuck around even though she has seen me at my worst and most annoying in college, has been on many a group project with me, and somehow decided to bring me along with her to Dell a couple years after graduating. While she may deny it, Im convinced that she and JP flooded our house while we went to a dog park in Cedar Park.
Nery Lira
Bridesmaid
Where we met: Hospital room few mins after she became the 3rd Lira sister. My little sister, biggest pain in the butt, but one of my favorite things about laws school at Texas Tech. She is my favorite part of Thursdays when we have sister dinners to keep my sanity. The strongest, most dedicated, loyal, and kind person I know. So proud to be her big sister. Pictured, her as a little nugget.
JP Culebro
Groomsman
Where we met: Tortured by the same team at Samsung The aforementioned 2nd house flooder of the duo, JP was definitely the brightest part of an otherwise really rough job at Samsung. We shared a responsibility while he transitioned teams and I followed suit a few months later. Outside of work, he and his husband introduced me to my second favorite city, Denver, at their wedding.
Sara Lira
Bridesmaid
Where we met: Hospital room after she was born. Sara is the most caring middle child of the Lira Sisters. She views the world unlike any of us; only 14 months younger than me, she was always with me, and we tackled a lot of things together. She was my sanity through Highschool on our long car rides to and from our High School in San Antonio. There is no one quite like her, and I am super proud that she is my sister.
Megan Detwiler
Groomswoman
Where we met: Back when we had hope at Samsung before our real careers started in the rotation program Megan and I have been friends since meeting in the CORP program at Samsung. While that didn't end up being the greatest for either of us in the long run, we have maintained a great friendship ever since. We trade off hosting holidays and weekly game nights and always reach out to one another when we are having a rough time. She may like Ruby more than me but shes been stuck with mostly me while Ruby has been in law school.
Maddy Cox
Bridesmaid
Where we met: Law School Specifically we met in our 8am Torts class with Professor Cochran because she sat behind me. Convo started when she asked me about my iPad. Pictured us getting a cake from Cochran because we were cold-called the most that semester.
Jaime Gonzales
Groomsman
Where we met: Jaime was the Project Administrator for the Austin chapter of the National Hispanic Institute when I was a Great Debate participant Despite the outcome of my participation in the Great Debate, Jaime always believed in me and supported me through high school and college. I may not have started out as the best person to be around but he definetely helped shape me into the person that I've become today, anxiety and all. He has helped me through some of the toughest times in my life with my anxiety as an adult especially when Ruby left to Lubbock for law school and I am very thankful for his influence in my life.
Ashley Riggs
Bridesmaid
Where we met: Chi Omega Lodge... but really Tech Student Government Association's freshman program Ashley and I are very much similar humans. In the same things, always on the same wavelength. The perfect match of smart and fun! We were in the trenches from freshman to Senior year together fighting for our lives and balancing everything. Pictured the most iconic picture in my opinion having SOOO (probably too much) fun as a campaign event for our SGA bloc.
Lia Guerra
Groomswoman
Where we met: Lia was the Head Coach of the Austin chapter of the National Hispanic Institute while I was a great debate participant While I was a participant during the great debate but back then we had a more or less friendly rivalry at the time while I constantly tried to outdo the head coach in the different challenges she would give me at the time. I feel like we got most close when we were co-Project Administrators for the Austin region during the panorama. 2 great debates and many happy hours (her preferred method of planning) later, she has become one of my closest friends.
Keely Maddux
Bridesmaid
Where we met: Chi Omega lodge on Bid Day Sorority big, loudest supporter, and the person who helped me get through undergrad and my propensity to overcommit myself back then. Pictured bid day, the pose we are in is supposed to be for big/little reveal day months later... but as she says, she knew we were besties from the start. Stockholm syndrome... whose to say,
Colleen Frainey
Bridesmaid
Where We Met: Living room of our first Law School House I have always been blessed with the best roommates. I want to strangle her sometime, but most the time she's exactly the person who I want to talk to at the end of the semester. We have been battle buddies since day one, she constantly challenges me, and pushes me to be better. Plus Maggie is my law school support pup because my pups are home with Matthew!
Victoria Lansford
Bridesmaid
Where we met: IDK, probably in one of our houses as children Tori has been there for me for as long as I have a memory. Mom and dad have to thank her for reigning in my more crazy ideas as a teenager. She's family, but more than that she one of my best friends.
Pricilla Mora-Garcia
Bridesmaid
Where We Met: Law School Forum This here is my negotiations quarter-finalist bestie. I have never met someone who understood my family as well as Pricilla did. Honestly, I'd never met someone so much like me. She is always the one to remind me rest in law school and optimize my study schedule because even though we were in school, school couldn't be our whole lives.