Meredith is currently working as a Special Education ESP at Rochester Public Schools. She loves to spend time with her family and friends. Her immediate family includes her parents, Marty & Jody, her older sister, Christine, her brother-in- law, Kris Ogawa, her uncle Frank and her future niece! Meredith is super excited to become an aunt later this summer! She also loves going on adventures and travel to different parts of the world. If you know Meredith, you know she is quite the sweet tooth, so she loves chocolate. Meredith can't wait to start the next chapter in her life by sharing it with the LOVE of her LIFE, Andy. She plans to love him always & forever.

Andy grew up around Plainview, MN. After high school, he joined the active duty USAF as a Missile Maintainer and was stationed in Minot, ND for 8 years. He then transferred to the MN Air National Guard as a Radio Technician and moved back to the Rochester area, where he eventually met Meredith. He currently is still serving part time in the Air Force National Guard and working full time as a Field Service Engineer for Becton Dickinson Biosciences. His immediate family includes his parents (Mike and Connie), his 2 brothers (Ricky and Luke), his sister-in-law (Elizabeth), his nephew (Oliver), and his niece (Cecilia). Ditto to Mere's comments about love.

Christine is Meredith’s wonderful older sister. She is the BEST and the most SUPPORTIVE sister in the whole world. She is also fluent in Spanish. Christine is happily married to her husband, Kris Ogawa. They are both very excited because they are going to have a baby girl, later this summer!! She and Kris are also quite the world travelers. They are also scuba certified and have gone scuba diving all around the world. Christine and Kris got married in September of 2021 at the Minneapolis Depot. Meredith was her Maid of Honor. She's very excited for Christine to be hers on Meredith’s special day as well.

Luke is Andy’s youngest brother. He is a carpenter for Benike Construction. He has two very cute and energetic dogs, Koda & Jersey. His favorite hobbies are tinkering and working on several different projects on his farm.

Ricky is Andy’s younger brother. He is a Social Studies teacher at PEM High School in Plainview, Minnesota. He is happily married to his wife, Elizabeth Thedens. They have two adorable children. Oliver is almost 4 years old and Cecilia who is 2 years old.

Anne is one of Meredith's best friends from high school at Cretin-Derham Hall in St. Paul, MN. They both graduated high school in 2011. Anne has a daughter named Bella. Meredith and Anne have been through a lot of fun adventures together and has been her best friend for over 16 years and counting. As long as Meredith has known Anne, she's never seen her as happy as she is when Anne is with her loving boyfriend, Joe Hansen. They sure make a cute couple.

Hannah is also one of Meredith’s best friends from high school at Cretin- Derham Hall, class of 2011. They visited each other throughout college and stayed in touch with each other ever since. Also, Hannah is happily married to her husband, John Fox. If you ever go to the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul, and you want a tour guide of it all, John and Hannah are the State Fair experts. Hahaha

Lindsay is one of Meredith's best friends from college at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota, class of 2015. She and Meredith were roommates for two years and they are also SAI sisters from SMU’s Womens Professional Musical Fraternity that they were in together. Since then, they’ve kept in touch throughout the years. Lindsay and her fiancé, Bret Holmes, have the cutest little boy, Benedict Holmes.

Adam is one of Andy's best friends from Plainview Elgin Millville High School. He works at Mayo Clinic. Adam is happily married to his wife Ashley and they have two cute kids and black lab dog.

Lukas is Andy's friend from the United States Air Force.