Vanessa & Richard
Wedding Party
Valerie Strickland
Maid of Honor
Val, Valley, Valerina...this is Vanessa's sister! The best thing about growing up with Val was having an automatic best friend. When we are together we pretty much revert back to twelve year olds and spend our time listening to the Jonas Brothers.
Austin Deneen
Best Man
Austin is one of our very best friends! Ricky and Austin lived on the same floor during our freshman year of college and were roommates during our sophomore year. Austin and Vanessa also met randomly at the beginning of freshman year through mutual friends and overtime became close friends.
Maura Sweeney
Maid of Honor
Maura is Vanessa's best friend. She was there the first time that we met and she has been waiting for us to get married ever since that night!
Rees Parish
Groomsman
Rees and Ricky became friends in middle school, making him one of Ricky's oldest friends! Rees is a great guy and we are so lucky to be friends with him!
Kimber Marsh
Bridesmaid
Kimber is one of both of our best friends and the amount of cheese fries that Vanessa and Kimber can eat in one sitting is extremely impressive.
Carlos Magana
Groomsman
Carlos is a close friend of both of ours! He was there the night that we met and likes to take credit for us being together.
Becky Fitzgerald
Bridesmaid
Becky is Vanessa's cousin! She is one of the only people that can talk about Harry Potter as much as Vanessa.
Hunter Coplan
Groomsman
Hunter deserves an award because he is the only person that willing lived with Vanessa for more than one year besides Ricky. Hunter is a good friend to both of us! In fact. the three of us lived together for a year in college and it was a blast!
Chelsea Podwicka
Bridesmaid
Chelsea is also Vanessa's cousin! She is the sweetest girl you will ever meet! She loves to sing and quote her favorite movie, Bruce Almighty.
Brandan Zweig
Groomsman
Brandan is Ricky's older brother. We have been lucky to travel and do a lot of really cool things with Brandan. From visiting coffee farms in Hawaii to holding baby alligators in Florida we always have a great time with Brandan!
Kiley Sims
Junior Bridesmaid
Vanessa started babysitting Kiley when Kiley was only a year old, now she is a teenager and loves spending time with the both of us! She wasn't so sure about Ricky at first, but she has now grown to like him more than Vanessa.
Madison Sims
Junior Bridesmaid
Madison is Kiley's sister! Vanessa would also spend time with and babysit her. Super cool thing about Madison...she wrestles on her high school wrestling team and pretty much always beats any boy that she wrestles!
Rylee Kubina
Flower Girl
We were not going to have a flower girl until we went to a wedding and Rylee was the most perfect little flower girl anyone could ever imagine so naturally we had to steal her! She is Vanessa's cousin and we cannot wait to see her bust out her moves on the dance floor again.
Georgie Bardell
Ring Bearer
Georgie is the cutest little boy you will ever meet in your life. He will be accompanied by his favorite teddy bear, Baby, at the wedding. He told us that he is going to sing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' at the wedding and that he cannot wait to have a big party!
Kevin Hickey
Usher
Kevin Hickey a.k.a Hickstar is another friend of ours from college! It will definitely be a toss up between him and Miss Rylee for best dancer of the night.
Clemente Hernandez
Usher
Clemente is another friend of ours from our freshman year at IU. Ricky, Austin, Carlos and Clemente all lived on the same floor during our freshman year and our lives would not be the same without them.