Rehearsal Dinner

Cave Pt 2

Wedding Day

Ceremony

Cocktails & Appetizers

Peach Creek Ranch Wedding Venue

Reception

Fall

Our Wedding

When Abi saw an old college classmate in a picture with a guy she met just outside her hometown, she just had to know the answer to the question "How in the world do you know Tony Scinta?"When Sam, living six hours away from his hometown, heard Abi ask, he just had to know the answer to the question "How in the world do *YOU* know Tony Scinta?"And from that began a five-year, four-state path that leads to College Station, Texas, on October 4th, 2024.For Sam, it was love at first sight - he told his friends the morning after their first date that he was "going to marry that girl."Abi needed a little convincing, but by the time the question was finally popped, she was more than ready to say yes. We're so excited to begin forever after, but can't wait to share I Do with you all first!

How in the world do you know Tony Scinta? 

Abi was born in September of 1998 to Bob and Mandi Brannan in Toledo, Ohio.She grew up in nearby Whitehouse with her older sister, Kelsey, and originally wanted to be a vet before choosing a life in the military through an ROTC path at Ohio State University.It was there she unwittingly met the brother of the man she would eventually choose to marry, although they would not meet until she had transferred to school back home at the University of Toledo.Abi has worked as a manager for Amazon since February 2020 and is currently running operations for the largest-volume distribution building in the Amazon network in the city of Houston. Her career has allowed her to work everywhere from the hills of Central Pennsylvania to the scorching deserts of the Sonoran to Pacific Coast.

Sam was born in November of 1994 to Sam and Kerry Scinta in Arlington Heights, Illinois.He grew up in O'Fallon with his younger brother Tony and, despite his family suggesting he should explore a future career in writing, decided to pursue a degree in music education from the University of Kansas instead.Flash forward a little more than a decade, and Sam is now the Managing Editor of the Wharton County Leader-Journal newspaper outside of Houston, a career that includes a fateful stop at a small-town newspaper in Ohio, just outside of Toledo.Sam will be missing his grandmother Cathy Cayley, who passed in 2001, his grandfather Sam Scinta, who passed in 2020 and his grandmother Joan Scinta, who passed in 2023. He knows both his Grandma Cayley and Grandpa Scinta would have absolutely adored Abi - his Grandma Scinta sure did.

Our Story

Photos

Sam and Tyler have been friends since 2001 and share a love of all things Chicago. Some of their best memories together are going to the Grand Canyon for the first time after an incredible cross-country drive, learning how to play the saxophone from 5th grade through high school and, of course, being in Chicago the night their beloved Cubs finally won it all.

Tyler Hawk Frey

Adrian (Nat) Gentry

Kara Harvey

Kateyln Scott Short

Kelsey Brannan Moore

Sam and Sean have been friends since 2007 and immediately bonded over hockey and video games. Some of their favorite memories include rooming together on the high school band trips, spending time at Sean's family lake house and watching each other try to survive two separate trips to New Orleans.

Sean Cornwall

Sam and Alex have been friends since 2014 when they met at the University of Kansas and have continued a friendship steeped in basketball and music ever since. Some of their best times involve an eventful basketball band trip to Dallas, ridiculous Jamaican food in Toronto and the countless upon countless hours spent playing basketball together at the KU Rec Center.

Alex Dyess

Sam and Ryan have been friends since 2003 and quickly realized they were the two best catchers in their age group playing baseball for O'Fallon's Booster League. In their over two decades of friendship, they have taken in a Kansas and Boston concert outside in the middle of a tropical storm, survived Ryan's celebrations the night the Eagles won the Super Bowl and seen Sam fork over likely hundreds of dollars to Ryan on the poker table.

Ryan Cornell

Sam and Tony are just 14 months, 7 days, 3 hours and 30 minutes apart in age, and yes you absolutely better believe they've done the math, and as a result spent their childhoods doing nearly everything together, for better or worse.
Even as the older brother, Sam looks up to and deeply admires the man his "little" brother has become - as a husband to his wife Savannah, as a son to his parents and as a brother.
Some of Sam's favorite memories with his brother were spent exploring the woods behind their childhood home, making prank calls to Hawaii in the middle of the night because places were still open there and flying halfway around the world to watch him marry his best friend in Santorini.

Tony Scinta

Wedding Party

Q + A

There is a large parking lot and plenty of ride share options to and from the venue. When you arrive walk across towards the barn and walk to the left towards our arch and ceremony chairs. There will be shade and plenty of seating when you arrive 

Abi & Sam

Abi & Sam

Q + A

Q + A coming soon!