Wedding Party
Shelby Stewart
Bride
Her hobbies include having a constant to be read list of books that are in her bookshelf, never ending crochet projects, playing video games on the switch, while also being a pet mom to Z, Marigold, Linnea and Ginger. She grew up as a military child and comes from a large family consisting of 7 siblings.
Austin Gentry
Groom
Has a never ending obsession with magic the gathering. Shelby enjoys opening the magic the gathering card packs with Austin to see the different art work. The other things he enjoys hunting, playing league of legends with his discord gang, watching anime and being a pet parent to his fur children Z, Marigold, Linnea, and Ginger. Now on the opposite side, austin only has one older sister Samantha and a younger brother Tyler. He is also apart of two different dungeons and dragon's group with Tyler as the dungeon master.
Lizzy Faust
Bridesmaid
Shelby & I met my freshman year of HS, and during her sophomore year we quickly became close friends and felt like sisters soon after. My favorite memory with her is either our saint Louis band and choir trip or our girls nights. Today my hobbies include crocheting and drawing. I cant wait to celebrate the love between Austin and Shelby for years to come
Bri Rodriguez
Maid of Honor
Hi I'm Bri. I am married to the grooms cousin and Shelby and I kinda became instant best friends pretty much the first night we met.
Katie Havlicek
Bridesmaid
As Katie would say she met the bride through "this bitch" (herself). But in more technical terms, shelby and Katie met through an old friend of Katie's back in 2017. They were roommates living in a 2 bedroom loft during the start of COVID in Lincoln, and during this time it was endless runs to Qdoba and chipotle and stopping for frozen yogurt afterwards. This went on up until Austin asked Shelby to move in with him. When Shelby started to look for a dog as her faithful companion, Katie went with her to KC to pick out Linnea. To this day they "aunties" to each other's dogs.
Brynn Burbach
Bridesmaid
Brynn and Shelby started off originally as coworkers working for Nelnet. It quickly turned into them becoming best friends and attending concerts together such as panic at the disco, Jonas brothers, fall out boy etc. Even tho Brynn lives in Lincoln, they still find time to do dinner at their favorite restaurant The Oven in Lincoln.
Tyler Jordahl
Best Man
Easiest way to say how he knows the groom is that they are brothers. Tyler is considered the most spontaneous person, who has a wide variety of skills from working on cars, to gardening, woodworking and even baking. A dungeon master to 2 DND groups. He met Shelby one afternoon stopping her before she could leave and jumped on the hood of his car to get her attention.
Alec Ferriola
Best Man
Shelby considers Alec to be the IT wiz of the group. Austin and Alec met through their love of games back in 2009, quickly becoming good friends and eventually met in person when the groom attended PAX east back in 2019. He is also having a wedding in October of 2026. He visited the bride and groom back in 2022 with Josh and John, where they took part of endless MTG games at the kitchen table, visiting the Omaha zoo, and the local game store.
Josh Braginton-Smith
Best Man
I first SPOKE with/to the groom in the year of our Lord and savior Harambe 2016. I finally was able to meet him in PERSON when he came out for PAX east (a gaming convention) in 2019. In 2022, with our friends Alec and John I had a fan-TASTIC week of shenanigans with the groom and the bride whom we heard on occasion in the background through discord.
John Tucker
Best Man
Austin and John met through Alec. Just like Alec and Josh they met for the first time in person back in 2019 attending PAX East. They game occasionally on discord together playing League of Legends, and he met the bride back in 2022 during the week stay.
