Maid of Honor
Maja is my (older) sister. We're a little competitive and have been banned from playing each other in board games. Even though we live so far away, we somehow managed to buy each other the EXACT same Christmas gifts two years in a row. I guess great minds do think alike! When we weren't playing softball, we spent our childhood summers watching Little House on the Prairie and What Not to Wear. We could literally laugh for hours together! I could go on and on but, I'll leave a little material for her to work with for her MOH speech!
Bridesmaid
I have known Bre for almost 20 years! Notice that I didn't say that we have been friends for almost 20 years, she didn't like me at first (third grade drama!) I grew on her as we played on a travel basketball team together coached by our dads - THANK YOU "RimRockers" for this lifetime friendship!
Bridesmaid
I can thank my job for allowing me to meet Kayla! We started to become friends during our after work wine nights at Savory Swine. This then turned into coffee runs to Lucabe. We can still be found doing both of those, shopping, working out, or hanging out at her pool!
Bridesmaid
I would not have made it through college if it wasn't for Sydney! We met freshman year during rush at IU. We were pretty much inseparable from when we first met and ended up being in the same sorority. We managed to make it through several tailgates, Little 500 weeks, and more trips to our favorite restaurant, Asuka, than I can count!
Best Man
Nick (my younger brother) still lives back up in the Chicago suburbs. That being said, we still talk every few days or so and we are probably closer now than we've ever been growing up. But then again, as we were growing up, me being the older brother, had to make sure I kept him in line. We don't always see eye to eye on everything, but we can always talk to each about anything and are there for each other in times of need as brothers should be.
Groomsman
After living in Columbus for a year or two, and regularly attending the same gym, I kept recognizing this truck that I used to see down at SIU all the time at the apartment complex I lived at for some time. I finally saw who drove this truck and asked one day, "hey man did you go to SIU?", knowing of course he did I recognize the parking sticker that was still on the back window. From then on, we became riding buddies taking our motorcycles out to Bloomington, Indy, and all over the country roads summer after summer.
Groomsman
I met Mike later in college when I moved down to SIU and lived in on-campus apartments, where I was assigned 3 roommates based on some questionnaire we had to fill out. We ended up being enrolled in the same major coincidentally and happen to enjoy a lot of the same things outside of school. While our other 2 roommates were quite the opposite (ask us how fun that was living with them), Mike and I became best friends at SIU which really made living away from home more enjoyable. We ended up being roommates for about 2 years dealing with yet again another "wonderful" extra roommate. When graduating we split ways for a little bit, yet somehow ended up helping each other get jobs for the same company in the end, so it's pretty funny how all that came to be.
Groomsman
Matt and I met in high school autos class Junior year, I was the annoying kid who sat in front of him and would ask for some of the candy he brought to class. Little did we know that we would just click and end up becoming best friends from there out, in fact, we were like brothers. Although I started going away to school after high school, just about every weekend you could find me spending time up at his house working on someone's car or motorcycle.