Wedding Party
Kathryne Staudinger
Maid of Honor
My little sister, best friend, original travel buddy, Doctor Staudinger, OB/GYN resident. Despite hating her as a child when she showed up and stole my first born spotlight with her flaming red hair, Kathryne is my hero and I don't know how I would survive without her. I love her more than I have the words to say. She is a wild child while also being the hardest working person I know. Beware when she has a mic in hand, whether singing karaoke surprisingly on pitch to Josh Turner's Be Your Man, screaming to Evanesce's Wake Me Up Inside, or flawlessly rapping all the lyrics to WAP. I am grateful she made me a dog aunt, and I love her wild Paraguayan pup Chipa as my own child.
Dakota Conroy
Best Man
Dakota is my best friend from the University of Montana. We met on a warm fall morning my sophomore year (Dakota's first year at the University of Montana). We locked eyes over jello shots between the legs of someone doing a keg stand and we knew it was true love. I don't honestly remember when I met him but that could be true. When Dakota visited me in Knoxville, he became a legend - "Dakota from Montana" that girls asked about for years to come. We've taken lots of trips and seen many country music concerts together from Tennessee, California, Nevada, Montana, and Florida. He's an overall great dude and friend you can always count on.
Laura Lesevoy
Bridesmaid
My first best friend - Laura and I were destined to be friends before we were even born (there's video evidence of our parents dancing at each other's weddings in Chicago). We grew up doing everything together, from dance lessons, soccer games, and "playing teenagers," to family vacations to Cannon Beach and Disney Land. The day she moved back to Illinois from Washington was the saddest day of my childhood. Despite moving after 5th grade, we remained best friends, which seems crazy since we haven't lived in the same state since we were 11. But that's how amazing she is, whenever we get together it's like no time has passed. Laura is the most beautiful person inside and out.
Max Archey
Groomsman
Max and I met bartending together in Knoxville, Tennessee at Uptown Bar & Grill basically on University of Tennessee's campus. We became pros at throwing bottles back and forth to each other. He is hilarious, someone you always want on your trivia team, and plays every adult league sport offered in Knoxville - best known as a world class kickball pitcher. He also makes for a great New Years kiss ;) We became roommates in Knoxville and living with Max was the best because he was an alcohol rep so I got lots of free booze. Now we are both mortgage loan officers lol.
Meghan Keirnes
Bridesmaid
Schmeegle! Meghan and I have been friends since childhood and were evidently the two shortest girls in our first grade class (discovered by our appearance side-by-side in the front row of our first grade class photo that hung on the fridge of our Bellevue apartment in our mid-twenties). We survived junior high and high school together, only getting into a mild amount of trouble... We even became yoga sculpt instructors together! Meghan is the life of the party, always making everyone around her laugh (voted most likely to get on SNL in our graduating class- while she didn't get on SNL, she did date one of the writers when she lived in New York). She is so supportive and someone you want in your corner.
Jordan Baker
Groomsman
Baker - one of the OG dude partiers. We became friends while doing track in high school. We both did track at separate colleges (Jordan at University of San Francisco) and made trips to visit each other in California and Montana. We spent "summertime in the 509" (YouTube it, or don't lol). After college we continued to travel to visit each other when I was living in Tennessee and Jordan was living in Hawaii, spending multiple Christmases together. We went on an epic trip to Bolivia and Peru, exploring Bolivia's salt flats and Machu Picchu. He's currently making his way down to South America in his Ford Explorer, living a surfer's dream while he finishes grad school.
Abby Smith
Bridesmaid
Abigail mi novia y habib. Abby and I became fast friends while studying abroad in Spain with our shared passions of travel, adventure, dancing, eating, and drinking tinto de verano! I credit so many of my early outdoor adventures to her for pushing me out of my comfort zone. You can thank her for keeping me alive on the trail, as she's always prepared with extra layers and the best snacks! We have traveled all over the globe and road tripped across the US together. She can turn any situation from negative into positive and somehow something we can even laugh about in the moment (often uncontrollably) as opposed to just after the fact. Abby is one of the people I have laughed hardest with in my life.
Riley Neville
Groomsman
Ry - the little brother I never had or wanted ;) I met Riley during his recruiting trip to the University of Montana where I proceeded to woo and court him into choosing his athletic and academic career at the University of Montana. We've taken lots of trips and seen many country music concerts together from Tennessee, California, Nevada, Montana, and Florida. Over the years I've been able to get to know his amazing family - Becky, Papa Nev, and Reese who always make you feel like family. Can't wait to see you tear up the dance floor!