Sarah has been one of my best friends since my junior year of high school. Through being in FFA together we took a road trip to Indiana for National Convention, served as chapter officers, and showed dairy beef, hogs, ad goats at the Lampeter fair. Sarah was the first to know about Caleb and we spent quite a few late night Sheetz runs chatting about our relationship. She’s been a friend though the highs and lows, and I’m honored to have her beside me on such a special day.

My younger sister and shadow since the day she was born, my partner in crime, and someone whose always been ready for whatever random adventure comes our way. She’s always been one of my biggest supporters and has listened many many times to all of my stories about Caleb, and, even though I’m sure they got old, she was always excited to hear every one of them.

Vita and I have been best friends since we found out we shared a backpack cubby on the first day of 4th grade (little 4th grade us pictured above). She’s someone I know I can go to for honest advice, and someone who always made sure I knew how I should be treated. When I started dating Caleb, and Vita approved and talked about how well he treated me, I knew even more that I found something special. She’s always been in my corner and I’m honored have her with me on my special day.

Ava and I have been friends for a few years, and we’ve taken many trips together through FFA. Ava is my sweet “grandma” friend and we share what we call our “grandma hobbies” like embroidery, making blankets, canning, gardening, and making lots of random foods from scratch. She’s my first call if I ever want someone to go thrifting for old fashioned treasures with me, and always has a sweet word of encouragement for every situation.

Jaclyn has been a dear friend since my sophomore year of high school, when she heard I was moving to her school and immediately sent me a DM saying how excited she was, before she even really knew me. Our friendship grew through classes together, coffee runs, Bible studies, FFA trips, and showing livestock, and she's someone I'm forever grateful to have by my side.

Colin and I have been best friends since the first day of kindergarten. He’s been at my side for everything from running around his woods as kids to going to fires together and late night pizzas at the firehouse. He’s molded me into who I am today in so many ways. From the reason I became a firefighter to establishing my friend group. He’s my go to for everything whether I want to go out to eat, go hunting, shoot stuff or just sit and talk. It’s an honor to have him next to me on the best day of my life and to know he’s a friend I’ll have for the rest of my life.

I’ve known Brandon since I joined the fire department in February of 2019. He was the first to show me around the station and the trucks and give me a lot of knowledge. It didn’t take long before our nights at the firehouse talking about firefighting turned into talking about life. We had plenty of Wawa runs after training night where I talked his ear off about Kayla.

I met Cameron in middle school when I started going to his church youth group. We’ve grown together through missions trips, youth retreats, hunting, bonfires and lots more excursions. He’s the friend you go to every time you need a good laugh or someone to just cheer you up whenever you need it. Cam left for a YWAM trip knowing I was upset cause Kayla rejected me, then came home 6 months later to me talking about marrying that same girl.

I’ve known of Weston for a while but since I started working and Gap Power and running with Gap Fire Company the last 3 years I’ve gotten a lot closer to him. I’ve always looked up to Weston in lots of ways and he was the first to know about Kayla. It started out as dragging him along line dancing, to talking about the cute girl there on the way home until he finally told me “she’s not gonna ask you out, so you either have to ask her or stop thinking about her” He’s the reason I ever went out with Kayla, and I give him a lot of credit for helping me grow into who I am as a firefighter, mechanic and christian. We ended up with the nickname “Father and son” because we look alike and do lots of the same things together.

I met Gabe when I was in middle school. He was a childhood friend of Colin and Cameron that started out as just a mutual friend to me. I started getting invited to things they would do with him and he’d start getting invited to things they’d do with me. The more I got to know Gabe the more he became my friend to. Gabe has helped tremendously with my faith from conversations around the bonfire at 2am to a text from him just saying “hey man, praying for you” I’m so honored to have him with me, and praying for me on my wedding day.