Nate and jennifer

Estee and I met at Rice University through Heather. She has her MBA and works for a top real estate company in Houston. She enjoys traveling around the world, exercising including hot yoga, and having dinner and wine with friends. Through the years, she has been a loyal and loving friend. I call her "Mamma Estee" because she is incredibly wise and is always looking out for her friends. She has been with me through the ups and downs of life and I'm so thankful for her. Her love, support and wisdom have helped me become a stronger and more well-rounded woman. She has also been essential in my dating life and never allowed me to lower my standards for a second. We have had so many wonderful adventures together including the time we attended a Real Madrid/juventus soccer match in Italy and stayed at the same hotel as David Beckham. We have been friends for over 15 years now and I can't wait to see what the next 15 have in store for us.

Heather McDonell

Bridesmaid

Heather and I have been friends for close to 16 years now. We met our sophomore year at Rice University in Houston, TX. Heather walked up to me in a bathroom during organic chemistry class and complimented me on my "dancing" from a party the night before. A few months later, I walked up to her at the library and invited her to volunteer with me at an after school program for at risk youth. We have been friends ever since. Heather was unlike any girl I had every met and she inspired me beyond description to be the woman I am today. Heather is incredibly loyal, sweet, sincere and is a wonderful friend, mom and wife. We have traveled around the world together including southern France and Italy. She is fluent in French and Italian so is a wonderful travel partner. I still remember walking barefoot along a beach after a night of dancing and sipping on rose while eating escargot in the streets of France. She always makes me feel like I am beautiful, smart and just fabulous. She has her masters in French Studies, her law degree specializing in estate planning and she is now teaching French at the local University in Madison. She has a wonderful husband-Kevin-and 2 adorable sons-Colin and Ryan.

Amy Chapekis

Bridesmaid

Amy and I met our sophomore year at Rice University. We actually met because neither one of us were that good at physics and decided to sit in the back row of our pre-med physics class. We decided to become study partners so we could survive the class and get into medical school. Our friendship has stayed strong since then! Surviving physics turned into a greater mission of simply surviving and thriving at Rice. We went on many adventures together during our time at Rice. Amy is a truly special person as well. She loves to travel and is incredibly brave, proving that big hearts often come in small packages. She is soft spoken yet will speak words of wisdom that will change your world. She is now a practicing pediatric psychiatrist. She is married to her husband Jon and is a new mom to her beautiful daughter.

Hilary Glazer

Bridesmaid

Hilary and I met our first year in medical school. We just seemed to fit and the friendship naturally continued. We were together during some of the most stressful times of our lives but always tried to find a way to enjoy life despite the challenges of our program at WashU. Hilary was a very dedicated student and we spent many evenings at local coffee shops studying anatomy and enjoying beignets. We would then celebrate our occasional night off with a bike ride in a dress and high heels to the central west end area of St. Louis to enjoy food and a glass of wine. Hilary and I are both big foodies and a nice meal was probably our favorite way to spend some money. Hilary is now a practicing memory specialist/Neurologist living in Miami, Florida. She recently just opened up her own private practice in Florida and is the top memory specialist in the state. She is incredibly smart, resilient, beautiful and she is a great friend. She is never afraid to take a risk and do what is right-even if it's never been done before. She is truly one of a kind and is going to change the face of memory care as we know it-I'm sure of it. I'm thankful to have her in my life.

Naina Rao

Bridesmaid

Naina and I met during medical school at WashU. Hilary, Naina and I were inseparable for the majority of medical school. We always had an incredibly unique bond as we worked hard to become wonderful physicians but also desired a life of freedom, adventure and purpose. We made a point to enjoy life despite the restrictions of a tough medical school curriculum. I don't know how I would have completed the program without her in my life. To illustrate this co-desire to work hard, serve others but also enjoy life-we both decided to go to Cape Town, South Africa together our last year to do a medical mission project overseas. We worked hard during the week at our local hospitals and the weekends were filled with countless adventures including paragliding off of a mountain, hiking up another mountain by moonlight and enjoying local cuisine. Naina is brilliant, an incredibly hard worker, extremely successful and just a beautiful person inside and out. She is now a practicing pediatric anesthesiologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, married to the love of her life-Vivek and has a beautiful 7 month old daughter Maira.

Jace Jordan

Groomsman

Jace and I have been really close friends dating back to our Freshman year in High School. We lived in the same neighborhood, rode the same bus to school, and even wore the same stupid haircut at one time - it was real classy, let me tell you. In the Summer of 1998, we even slept in the bed of his pickup truck to get front row seats to the CountryFest Concert that year because we thought we were "hard core". He also tried to convince me that his suped-up Ford F-150 was faster than my GMC Sonoma, but one night at Thunder Valley Raceway proved that to be a lie so he had to buy dinner at Taco Bell at 3am. He is an avid golfer in his spare time, and works at Orr Nissan West in Oklahoma City where he has been for 10 years. He lives in Oklahoma City.

Mike Arnold

Groomsman

Mike and I have been like brothers since Freshman year in High School. We were frequent visitors to a stellar country dance hall called "Horseshoe Jacks" where we both tried to be line dancing legends and the rest, they say, is history. Mike and I took our dates to prom together, lived together for a while in College, and even worked together on one occasion, when Mike convinced me that we could get rich selling security alarm systems door to door. That job lasted an entire 3 hours before I quit after lunch. Mike tries hard at golf and working out, has a terrific son named Trent, and lives in Deer Creek. He works in law enforcement for the state of Oklahoma where he has served for 11 years.

Scott Stewart

Groomsman

Scott and I have known each other for our entire lives. All 17 years. That's because he is my little brother. Scott claims to be a little better looking and more athletic, but we can both truly agree that's just simply not the case. He might, however, be a little better with hair gel. He is a Junior at Edmond North High School where he is a stud on the Varsity Tennis Team, leading the Team to a recent Championship in Doubles. He enjoys good music, and has a love for all things mexican food. He lives in Edmond, has a great dog named Lexie, and works at Kickingbird Tennis Center.

Chris Dennis

Groomsman

Chris and I have been close friends since Sophomore year in High School. We met through mutual friends at the famous "Horseshoe Jacks" dance hall in Oklahoma City and have remained close for the past 20 years. Chris taught me how to throw a rope, ride a horse, and even how to clean manure out of a horse stall. It was truly the most fun I absolutely never want to have again. I still get nauseous at the thought. Chris is one of the finest horse trainers and coaches in this part of the country, and besides his booming business at the Dennis Ranch, Chris enjoys Team Roping and spending time with his wife Grace, who is a Veterinarian in town. They live in Jones, OK.

Dustin Nichols

Groomsman

Dusty and I have been close friends since elementary school, when we grew up playing little league baseball together. We were both pitchers, and traveled together on the same team for many years before High School. Dusty always had the coolest truck in our group of friends but he always had a problem shifting gears, pushing in the clutch, and keeping it on the road when he would drive us anywhere. Dusty even tried to convince me to buy him a can of chewing tobacco before he was 18, but of course I only did it one time. And I almost went to jail. Dusty works for the city of Bethany, and is married to his wife Kelli and together they have a 2 year old son named Bayler.

Shane Meadows

Usher

Shane and I met over 5 years ago through a mutual friend in the Sprint Car racing world. We both are fanatics of dirt car racing and love to work on race cars. Shane showed me a few tricks of the trade one night at a local racetrack, so I bought him a cheeseburger at the concession stand. I figured it was a little nicer than a funnel cake and I wanted to learn from one of the best. He is a master mechanic and well respected among his peers, though we are not sure if his racecar tattoo is real or not. We still travel to races across the country to this day and have a great time. Shane lives in Oklahoma City with his girlfriend Quincy, and has run his own small construction business for the past 15 years.

Adam Root

Usher

Adam and I met our Sophomore year of high school and went to College together at the University of Central Oklahoma. We became Fraternity brothers in Kappa Sigma where Adam was definitely the smartest of the bunch, and significantly raised our Chapter GPA. He did, however, display athletic prowess by placing 4th in Intramural ping pong, if memory serves me correct. Adam and I have always shared a knack for business and strategic thinking, and he even taught me the fundamentals of Entrepreneurship - did I even spell that right? He has served as the Founding Partner of a Venture Capital Firm in San Francisco, California and most recently the Chief Operations Officer of a large company based in Dallas, Texas where he currently lives with his girlfriend Anne, and their 2 dogs.

Cory McCutcheon

Usher

C-Mac, as he is affectionately known, has been a great friend since our early College days at the University of Central Oklahoma. Cory was one of my fraternity brothers in Kappa Sigma, where we both served for 4 years and even won the Greek Olympics due to Cory's outstanding performance on the Balance Beam. Just kidding, it was ping pong. Cory has served our country as an active member of our military, logging 2 tours in Afghanistan so don't mess with him. He is an excellent marksman with a rifle, knows how to polish the heck outta some shoes, and he is one of the best all-around guys that I know. Plus, he loves the movies Tombstone, Gladiator, and Coming to America, which should all have won Academy Awards in my book. Cory has worked in the Wine and Spirits business for the past 12 years and is currently a Regional Sales Manager for a distribution company in Oklahoma City, where he also lives with his amazing dog named Spot.

Jake Carlgren

Usher for Junior Bridesmaid