Wedding Party

Carina Mezayek

Maid of Honor

I met Carina in college through not only my trainer but very close friend who happens to be one of Ken’s Groomsmen. One day while training, he told me about a girl he was dating and wanted me to meet. When he introduced us, I realized we already knew each other from college and bartending. We got to know each other some but then got much closer once we both moved to Colorado. Since then, we have all three or even just me and Chadi, go on trips, dinners, sporting events or whatever came up and really all became closer than ever. She knows me better than any other girlfriend. She is such a giving, positive energy person that just being around her makes anyone want to be a better person. She would literally give you the shirt off her back or anything else to make you more confident, comfortable, secure or happy. She is the best possible friend anyone could ever have and even if I had to, I could never even find a single negative thing to say about her. I look up to her immensely and hold her opinion in the highest regard. When she met Ken, it was a huge deal, because of all of this and I really hoped she saw in him what I did. Later I found out she called my mom and they compared notes. Fortunately, they both felt the same. They both later told me how happy they were for me and how excited they were for us. I am so fortunate to have her here to support me, encourage me and guide me on the happiest day of my life. She is a one of a kind and she is so much more than Maid of Honor.

Chelsea Greer

Bridesmaid

We met while working in the fitness industry in Texas. She was the first-person to take a chance on me and give me a job at a boutique gym as a trainer. She taught me so much more about my career than I could have ever learned in college and made me the professional I am today. I look up to her knowledge, background and experience. When I am working with people, I still pull from the things she taught me. She legitimately took interest in me and invested in me and cared about my development and progression. She cared when she didn’t have to. Just like Ken and I, we shared a love of food and cooking. She gave me support and strength to grow and become a stronger, more confident and more independent woman. She truly helped motivate and encourage me to end up in Colorado and meet my perfect person. I am so thankful for the love and support she has given me since day one, even if she didn’t know she was doing it. She is a woman I look up to and admire for who she has shown me she is as a person. I am so proud and grateful to have a woman like her to support me on this incredibly special day.

Jessie Speir

Bridesmaid

We met in 8th Grade, and she was my best friend when I moved to Austin. We experienced every awkward stage of growing up through adulthood. We traveled to Colorado far before I moved here for a music festival, unprepared and survived storms, camping and everything Colorado has to offer. We continue to grow so much more on our journey from awkward teens to young adults, to now getting married, settling down and starting the best chapter of our lives. I look forward to sharing with her, every chapter that life has in store for us. To have a childhood friend that means so much to me, standing and supporting me on my wedding day means the world. From celebrating her bachelorette party, my engagement, her wedding, to my wedding together in less than a year is incredible considering we met in Junior High. I am so blessed to have such an amazing, inspiring, motivating group of women like her supporting me on this incredible day.

Jessica Molina

Bridesmaid

Jessica is my oldest friend, we met in elementary school 25 years ago. We lived down the street from each other. I remember us secretly burying a time capsule with her in our school’s playground while they were doing a remodel. I love thinking that it is still there. We played soccer together as kids and grew to play together collegiately. We went through break ups, supported each other, and were each other’s support through everything. Even though we have not lived close in many years, when we get together, we pick up right where we left off like not a day has gone by since we were together. Her family has embraced me as their own, and I am confident that I would not be the woman I am without their influence and support.

Jeni Roark

Bridesmaid

We met in high school, but we got close as adults. We found fitness as our connection and built our relationship through working out together… surprise, surprise. She started her family, and I would cherish every opportunity to babysit Kingston or workout together. I was cooking for her and Adam, when Ken first asked me out. They were so supportive of me and us without even meeting him. I left their house that night and met Ken after dinner for our first date, I am so grateful that she encouraged me. her support changed my life forever. When Ken met Adam, it was another story of him loving the guys who have been close to me for so long. Ken told me how much he liked Adam because of how much of a man he is. Jeni is and always has been such a genuine example of what a wife should be; what it means to be committed and loyal to her husband and an inspiration to us both. Her and Adam are just another example of Ken and I loving, embracing and valuing the same qualities in our friends that we aspire to be. One more example of Ken loving the people who are important in my life for the exact same values and reasons.

Heather Hunt

Bridesmaid

I met Heather when Ken and I started meeting each other’s friends. Before we met them, Ken told me how important Jeff and she were to him. When I first met them, Heather immediately reminded me of my Maid of Honor Carina. They are literally the same personality so needless to say I loved her from the start. We hung out more and more because of how important they are to Ken and every day more important to me. When I asked Ken if I could ask her to be a bride’s maid, the look on his face told the whole story, these really were such important people to him, and I had already felt it on my own. For he and I to share such a close connection with each other’s best friends independently of any influence from the other is just one more reassurance of how perfect we are for each other. Our friends’ groups are so valued to us and to both feel the same about each other’s best friends is one of the huge indicators that reassures us both how perfect this is. Every time we are together, I understand more and more why they are Ken’s best friends, and she has become one of mine. I am so grateful for the people he has brought into my life. Without any influence from the other, we each picked a bridal party person to support us on such an important day and I am so glad that she accepted.

Jeff Hunt

Best Man

Jeff and I met when he showed up to CSFD Station #1 on his first day as a Firefighter. My dad taught me so much about not only being a firefighter and supervisor but as a person. When I met Jeff and saw how hard the crew was being on him I immediately took interest in him. Something my dad taught me was to get to know the person on the personal level and decide for your self. That is one of the best things I have ever done. I got to know the man who became my best friend. We have been there for each other through far too much to explain both professionally and personally. This is who I have always been able to turn to and hopefully I have done the same for him and Heather. Needless to say, no one got to mess with or miss treat him again at work no mater how new he was at the time. We spent all day at work together and most of our days off, gym, eating, going out, trying to get bigger or messing with hipsters. This is a man who has taught me more than I have taught me and has always been who I could depend on. "Best Man" doesn't even come close!

Faith Anderson

Groomsman (Woman)

What else is there to say? This person has amazed me every day of my life. She is smarter, prettier, more successful and genuinely a better person than I could ever strive to be. Talk about big shoes right? I am supposed to teach her to be the best possible person. I genuinely believe she is the most amazing human to ever exist and I am so grateful that she gets Alex to help raise her because there is no way I could do it alone. Whether she knows it or not, she has been my motivation, inspiration and reason for working harder each and every day to be a better person and father. My greatest joy is watching her turn into her own woman every day. That alone should be enough, but watching her truly blossom since she has been around Alex is the most rewarding thing I have experienced. My world has truly come together so who better to stand with me, support me and share with me this special day!

Paul Starcevich

Groomsman

Paul is my brother and we really haven't lived together or spent much time together since we were kids. In recent years he has become a man I am so incredibly proud of. On his own, he has pursued a career in the fire service, gotten in shape, completed the training, spent the worst fire season California has ever had on a hand crew and continues to develop himself every day along the way. I thought since I wasn't living with him I didn't have enough of an influence on him but I had no idea how much he really did look up to me, and respect me. I had no idea the impact you can have on someone without even knowing you are doing it and he has humbled me. We are far closer than I knew and I am more and more proud of him with every conversation. I am so glad to have this relationship and proud to support and motivate him on his fire service journey. Hopefully I can live up to the responsibility. I couldn't be more proud to have my brother stand with me and support me on this day. .

Chadi Mezayek

Groomsman

When I met Alex, my soulmate, little did I know that her Maid of Honor would be married to a man I I would want to be a Groomsman. In hind site; I should have known. When we first moved into our new home, we started hosting dinner parties almost every weekend, all Alex's friends. This is not something I have ever done, and I know that no one who really knows me is not at all surprised by that. I met Chadi at one of these dinner parties and he and I were able to sit and talk for a few hours one on one without the girls and feel like we had been buddies for years. We all hung out a few more times and one night out with them, I asked Alex if it would be ok if I asked him to be a groomsman. We genuinely just meshed and he and Carina are both people that I instantly understood why were so important to Alex. One of the things that solidified to me why Alex was the one, was how much I loved her best friends as my own. If she wasn't that person, then we wouldn't love the same people. While I have only known Chadi since I met Alex, it feels like he has been my friend, not Alex's, forever. It means so much to me that he was willing to support me on this day, and he was so moved when I asked him. For Alex and I, independently, to ask each other to invite our best friend's spouses to be in our parties tells me so much about who her and I are, how much we are meant to be together, and how we choose the exact same people to be in our circles says so much. I am so glad to share these special groups of friends together. I am so proud and grateful for him to be here for me and support me, especially to gain his approval to marry someone who has been one of his best friends for so long.