As my younger sister, Samantha has been by my side for nearly my whole life. From our ski trips together, to our yearly summer adventures in Maine, to cheering me on at sports, and being there for me at graduations, she’s supported me through it all and will continue to do so at my side on my wedding day. Even though our personalities are completely opposite from one another, we often finish each other’s sentences and know what the other is thinking without having to say a word. Samantha has always looked out for me, aside from the time she crashed into me on the slopes while I tried to stop her from sliding down the mountain. She’s one of the most caring, giving, and loving people I know, and I couldn’t imagine my special day without her.

Jess and I met while we were both students at American International College. We made so many great memories there together and I’ll cherish every single one of them for the rest of my life, from our regular evening dinners at the dining commons, to our late night study sessions at WNEC, and even our trips to Blockbuster to pick up a rental for movie night (back when we all still used DVDs, remember those? Haha). She even tolerated me as a roommate. Those college years flew by, but the friendship we built and the times we shared will be with us forever. Jess is one of the kindest, most thoughtful, and upbeat people I know. I’m honored to call her my friend and that she’ll be by my side supporting me on my wedding day

Although they had met previously through youth activities or church-related events, Joe and Zach became friends during their freshman year of high school in the Fall of 2005. As they were both in the honors program at Ludlow High, they shared many of the same classes together, including first period Western Civilization, where their friendship first started to develop. They shared many interests, including Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, but the core of their initial association revolved around politics. They, along with several others in their friend group, founded a mock political party named the American Conservative Party and regularly held meetings for it in the town hall. Later, in the summer of 2007, the two attended the Lead America youth leadership conference in Washington, D.C. during together. They remained close friends throughout high school and college, during which time Zach served as Joe’s Best Man when Joe married Kathleen in 2013. It was Joe who took Zach to his first Latin Mass on Palm Sunday in 2017. Since both graduated, they’ve remained close, despite Joe’s work taking him to Marian University in Indiana, where he presently serves as the Chair of the Philosophy Department and as Professor of Philosophy. Joe and Kathleen have two children together, Oliver (6) and Audrey (4), and Zach was named godfather to the both of them.

Zach first met Ethan January 13th, 1994 at Baystate Medical Center. Ethan, having just recently been born, did not have over much to say at their first meeting. As one might expect with siblings, the two spent a great deal of time together growing up, from trying to figure out the NES and Sega Genesis in their bedroom when they were young, to learning to gamble with their grandmother, to weekly summer excursions with their grandfather, to just hanging around home. Ethan was always tinkering and building things, so it was a surprise to no one when he elected to pursue an education in engineering. As the two went off to college, the normal frictions that exist between siblings melted away and the relationship between the two strengthened and matured. While they do not get to see each other as frequently as when they were younger, Zach routinely looks forward to Ethan’s visits, both because it is a chance to see his brother, but also because it is a chance to see Nora and Nicholas, Zach's niece and nephew. Ethan lives in the Worcester area with his wife, Melissa, and with Nora and Nicholas. Ethan currently works as the Principal R&D Mechanical Engineer for Cytiva.

Zach met Dan in Fall of 2010, at the start of Zach’s sophomore year and of Dan’s freshman year of pharmacy school. Both lived on the same floor of the dorm at MCP. Zach and Dan’s interests were remarkably similar, ranging from science fiction and fantasy, D&D, Magic the Gathering, video games, and other such typically geeky hobbies. Together, along with Kris Connor and Vaughn Youngblood, they formed a tight friends group that remained together for the remainder of their time at MCP. The two remained in contact after graduation and frequently commiserated over the challenges and frustrations of working in retail pharmacy. Dan currently lives in the Worcester area with his wife Domi and the two are expecting the birth of their first born in mid 2026. Dan currently serves as a clinical pharmacist for the federal prison system.

Zach and Bob first met in a D&D group in 2016 and they’ve been pretty consistently playing with each other since then. Most of that time together was spent in games written and run by Zach, where Bob’s inventiveness, problem solving abilities, and vast memory for rules very frequently pushed Zach’s games to their breaking point. Given Bob's law and engineering background, it really shouldn't be surprising that he was so formidable a player. Currently, the two are playing together in games run by someone else, so Zach frequently benefits from Bob's skills, rather than having to contest them. In recent years, Bob took Zach deep sea fishing and Zach took Bob skiing. As it turns out, Bob was a much better skier than Zach was a fisherman. Bob currently lives in New York City, where he works as a patent lawyer for the #1 ranked law firm in the country.