Christopher Oh & Gina Lee
Wedding Party
Anna Martin
Matron of Honor
The moment I knew Anna would become my bestie was when we laid in hammocks on the mall at UMD and stayed up late at night sharing about our lives. We had just met a month prior to this moment, and I was amazed at how quickly we trusted each other to share such vulnerable parts of our lives. This feels reflective of the friendship we have built—a safe space to share, mess up, grow, and learn. Since then, Anna and I have also bonded over our love for coffee, late night chats, and public spelling errors. Anna also just married Chris's best man, Jay, so I'm excited to see how our friendships will evolve as we enter into this special stage of our lives, individually and together!
Jay Han
Best Man
I first met Jay on the soccer field, but we didn't connect at a deeper level until after we served together at a church youth retreat. Our brotherhood was forged through sports and faith, and has only grown stronger as we shared many adventures, aspirations, and mistakes together. Jay has been the yin to my yang over the past decade. Our deep connective similarities, as well as our distinctive differences continues to help me to grow in faith, humility, and love. I look forward to how the near and far future will shape us!
Anna Sol Park
Bridesmaid
When I first started attending Rosebrook Church, Anna Sol was one of the first people to reach out to get to know me better. We only had one hour to chat, and I remember leaving thinking "I wish we had more time!" Little did I know, over the next 3 years we would have dinners where we'd talk for hours and even have moments where we stay up until the sun rises talking all night. These long chatting sessions involved many tears as we've shared how we've been hurting, many, many hugs as we've learned to encourage and love each other, and many, many, many packs of SweeTarts Ropes.
Antwoine Johnson
Groomsman
Antwoine is my first friend here. We met at church during one of the lowest points of my life in my college years, and he persistently reached out to me. Over the decade, Antwoine modeled to me a deep level of care for others, as well as taking risks of deep vulnerability. He's also the friend I've fought the most with. Yet, he's one of the most devoted and authentic friend that I have, and I'm incredibly grateful for it.
Hope Han
Bridesmaid
My friendship with Hope starts on a crisp fall evening at a restaurant called Dauphine's in DC. A mutual friend of ours told us, "In another dimension, Hope is Gina, and Gina is Hope." With so much curiosity, we met up and ended up chatting for hours about our common taste in music, love for crafts, and interest in early childhood development. I guess our friend was right! We've continued to bond over the same things over the last three years while also deepening our friendship as we've shared struggles, celebrated growth, and had a lot of fun in between!
Josh Cheng
Groomsman
Joshie had a comical first introduction to me when I showed up an hour late to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner with some mutual friends. I was late because I drove to the wrong Bdubs, even though the right Bdubs was only 5 minutes from where I lived. How this happened continues to humor us. But this sparked a friendship that would allow us to go on many movie dates and bond over our love for good cinema while having stimulating conversations about various cinematic universes. I'm grateful for Joshie's friendship and our shared introverted-ness.
Julia Soh
Bridesmaid
Julia and I have been friends since elementary school. In some ways, everything has changed, and in other ways, nothing has changed! We've gone from weathering girl drama and sharing "important" thoughts about life, to now loyally walking through so much life together and being by each other's side as we mess up and realize we're just learning as we're going. In this way, our friendship has changed so much! One of my favorite friendship facts is that when we were young, we were once "fighting" (pretending to be Transformers). I accidentally stabbed Julia with a mechanical pencil. The lead remains in her hand to this very day. In this way, nothing has changed—Julia and I are still a derpy, clumsy duo, and she is stuck with me forever.
Nate Lowe
Groomsman
I, along with Jay, first met Nate at some mutual friends' apartment in DC at the tail end of COVID. The running joke is how Jay had brought his own birthday cake to this hangout. What's crazy is how Jay and Nate spontaneously decided to be roommates three days later. But this Absolute Point kick-started our own friendship and a brotherhood that continues to develop, allowing us to bond over late night convos, ball, and John Legend. I'm grateful for Nate's friendship and his intentionality to love and care for those around him.
Mina Lee
Bridesmaid
My friendship with Mina is the definition of a slooooow burn—we've known each other for about 20 years and have always been friends, but I wouldn't say we became close, for-life friends until the last few years. In recent years, we've shared life in more vulnerable ways as we've shared about our life hardships and invited each other to speak into each other's lives more closely. Outside of sharing our hearts with each other, we've shared a love for trying cute restaurants, making sure all of our hangouts are aesthetically pleasing, and TALKING—we can talk about anything and everything for so long. My only regret is that we would've become closer friends sooner!
Christopher Lee
Groomsman
I first met Chris when we played together on the same Saturday morning rec football team almost 10 years ago. After that game, we've crossed paths a handful of times in various social gatherings over the years, where he and his close friends would always playfully pick on me. So.. I plotted my revenge by dating and marrying his little sister, Gina. JUST KIDDING. I got to develop a deeper friendship with Chris after he and Judy (his awesome wife) joined the church we all currently attend. Chris has exemplified to me what it looks like to be a good hyung (older brother), husband, and now a new father. And I'm grateful to soon be able to call him my brother-in-law.
Nicole Sciabarra
Bridesmaid
It only took one year for Nicole and me to become good friends... and thank God because after that we'd end up spending more time in different states (and countries!) than we would living in the same state. We have bonded over our shared love for good music, interior home design, and women's health and wellness. Through months of studying abroad at different times and living in different states and countries for jobs, I've truly cherished the times Nicole and I have been able to share life when we find ourselves in the same place. We've continued to share life in these passing moments at the beach, the monuments at night, and after waking up having a slow morning at cabin trips.