Sara & Arif
Wedding Party
Maggie Callan
Maid of Honor
Sara and Maggie met freshman year of college at Columbia when they were paired in the same dorm suite. They became fast friends bonding over late night Coronet's pizza slices, Law and Order SVU, and Supernatural. 20 years later they're still friends, now with and additional mutual love of Fredericksburg, Texas. Maggie, her husband Jim, and their 3 kids live in the suburbs of Chicago, IL.
Melissa Trang
Bridesmaid
Sara's "Day One" - Mel and Sara have been life-long friends since Kindergarten, and have stayed friends over the decades even as Sara moved from state to state. Melissa and Sara have spent many a Halloween together, as Melissa is lucky enough to have the best birthday - Oct. 31st. Melissa, her husband Al, and their 2 boys live in Philadelphia, PA.
Sara Mancini Hagan
Bridesmaid
Sara and Sara met as they both competed in archery tournaments around PA since a young age, maybe 9-10 years old. They also both ended up on the Columbia Women's Archery team in college. We're pretty sure Columbia thinks we are the same person - our names and photos constantly being swapped on the school's website and newspaper. Sara, her husband Mike, and their dog Lulu live outside Philadelphia, PA.
Mandy McDermott
Bridesmaid
Mandy, the third member of "The Sara Club", also attended Columbia and was on the archery team with Sara and Sara. We can largely credit Mandy for Sara and Sara making it through college in one piece - her nickname is "Safe Sally". Mandy lives in Maine with her 2 kitties - Smokey and Bandit. She'll likely be saying how hot it is outside during the wedding.... in February.
Kristen Boyd
Bridesmaid
Kristen and Sara met in grad school at Rice University; Sara was studying Environmental Analysis and Kristen was studying Geology in the same program. Kristen, Sara, and the rest of the "Houston Gang" love traveling, including going on many camping trips together. Kristen and her husband Cody and their 2 kids live in Houston.
Gulce Dinc Dupray
Bridesmaid
Gulce came all the way from Turkey to go to the same program at Rice as Kristen and Sara - she also studied Geology (and now has her PhD!). Sara can thank Gulce for teaching her some Turkish words she used to impress Arif when they first started dating. Since finishing Rice, Gulce (unfortunately) moved overseas to France, and now lives Belgium with her husband Olivier and their son. Which gives Sara a great excuse to travel to Europe every so often and check in with Gulce.