Way back in 2007, when we were all a bunch younger, iPhones had just become a thing, and Al Gore won the Nobel peace prize - Caity worked at a little sports bar called Jack Russell’s. She’d just moved back after college at Boston University, and was happy as a clam to be back in her home city.
Ryan had been sailing and entrepreneur-ing, and getting kicked out of bars in San Diego and was probably a little less happy to be in New York (land of Yankees and cold weather), but was at least closer to a bunch of friends from UPenn. So what a kick in the butt it was that his local bar was staffed by a snarky redhead who scoffed at putting the Tampa Bay Bucs on a TV.
(At the time, she did not know there was a pirate ship in the stadium, please don’t hold it against her.)
Thank goodness for East End Tavern (RIP) - a home for the “Bucs Fans” and their bartender, Alecia, who would come to be real friends over pre-ordered breakfast sandwiches, Jews for Jeter buttons and a future World Series we won’t mention.
AO: “You’ve gotta meet my new friends, Bucs Fans”
CP: “Do they have real names?”
AO: “I don’t know but they’re fun, I think you’ll really like one of them”
She wasn’t wrong.
Two bars, eight years, seven countries, three Bucs games, two thousandish beers and a LOT of love later... we couldn’t be happier to invite you to the mountains to celebrate our (finally) wedding!
WELCOME DRINKS
The Bier Garden
8pm - 10:30pm
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CEREMONY
Cocktail Attire/Garden Party
Lake Eden
5pm
COCKTAIL HOUR + RECEPTION
Be sure to swing by the whiskey tasting bar
Lake Eden
5:30pm / 7pm - 11pm
AFTERPARTY
The AC Rooftop
11:30pm - late
You better believe there will be glow sticks
BRUNCH FLOAT
Zen Tubing
11:45am - 3/4pm
DEPARTURE DRINKS
Location(s!) TBD
Time TBD
Bathing suits + change of clothes
Heck YES we’re staying till Monday!
GREENVILLE SPARTENBURG ( GSP)
1 HR 15 MIN DRIVE
*** PREFERRED HOTEL ***
Cool downtown hotel with pool, pet friendly
$269 per night, $9 parking
Brand spankin’ new, has rooftop bar, pet friendly.
$269 per night, $9 parking
DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE
Definitely the closest airport, but very small.
Check Allegiant Airlines too - direct flights from
Fort Meyers, Tampa, BWI and Newark!
CHARLOTTE (CLT)
2 HR DRIVE
ATLANTA (ATL)
3 HR 30 MIN DRIVE
CHARLESTON (CHS)
3 HR 45 MIN DRIVE
If unicorns were real and sparkles were a personality type - there isn’t a person on earth
who loves LOVE more than Molly. Growing up, Molly probably did not love playing school
everyday and being bullied into memorizing her older sister’s plays before she could even
read but, thankfully, she forgave Caity and is the best friend and sister anyone could ask for.
She’ll be the one sobbing and being consoled by puppy videos.
MOLLY PRUNKA
KATIE OVERBECK
Aka KTO aka F. LaPadula Life Partner - the KTs have been best friends since freshman
year at BU and were roommates for a DECADE (which means she was basically Caity’s
first spouse). There’s no better dance-off partner, chips and salsa partier, silly-walker
and 2nd place nostril-flarer on the planet.
ALECIA OLEYOURRYK
LAURA HARFORD*
*insanely adorable baby not included
Sonia is yet another BU girl - though she and Caity didn’t meet til senior year, and even
then Caity was terrified of her “will work for shoes” shirt, for no apparent (other than too
many beers at Whiskey’s) reason. She doesn’t come out a lot, but FUN SONIA is one of the
best aperol-spritz-drinking, globe trotting, moving back from Boston (we wish!) friends ever.
JULIE GRODEWALD
Julie was Caity’s first bartender friend in NYC and the reason she could barely move on
Mondays for almost five years.They’ve graduated from shots to calling the shots, bartending
to owning bars, but Julie will always be a great, fun friend who isn’t afraid to call you a muppet
when you’re acting like one.
USHER
Aka AO - Alecia, one of the OG Loretto ladies (and an honorary 4th floor girl) is the reason
Caity and Ryan met. She is also the reason that Caity is: obsessed with SoulCycle, basically
not allowed back in Vegas, will not drink unattended beverages (please don't roofie me at
my own wedding), and any fun at all.
SONIA ANANDRAJ
Laura came to NYC and somehow wandered into Jack Russell’s and therefore into Caity’s
life. Lost football jerseys and road trips brought them closer, but a peacock, a flamingo, a
duck and a rooster solidified their friendship forever. Please ask her about the difference
between Black Haus and Black Bush; she is well versed in the answer.
Kev is the baby manatee, the man behind the Sound Solutions turntable, the co-pilot on Hot-n-Ready runs and Ryan’s brother and best friend. And as a little Carla-bird whispered in their ears everyday “friends may come and go, but brothers are forever,” - just like future matching sea life tattoos….
KEVIN SULLIVAN
HOWIE JASLOW
Howie “Meowie” Jaslow is a former national referee, previously a volunteer firefighter,
a marathon runner, a master cocktail-namer, an aspiring Space Camp attendee, and
a top level Bananagram-er. Howie will be deciding on what the groomsmen wear,
so Caity and Ryan will actually be getting married in 2018.
SCOTT CAMPION
Scotty is one of Ryan’s many friends from UPenn, and is one of his closest (both in quality
and proximity) friends in NYC. Many nights staying awake in bars, not being sarcastic...at all, watching the Olympics and certainly never sharing a pillow have made them lifelong friends. *cue scottylaugh*
STEVE GRISANTI
Steve and Ryan met during freshman year at Penn and as floormates, they were fast friends. Their personalities can be surmised from their roles at the fraternity - Ryan was the social chair and Steve was the pledge master…. There is no match for Steve’s intensely loyal, caring friendship except his loving dedication to carpenter jeans and Diet Coke.
PAUL MULÉ
Paul absolutely hates to dance. He can’t do one-armed pushups. He is terrible at The Worm.
He has never split his tuxedo pants, and certainly not more than once. Paul is not the life
of the party and is not an amazing, caring friend. This is all a lie.
GUNNAR JACOBS
Gunnar is the guy you can’t miss - both because he’s enormous but also because, even if you don’t know him, he’s probably already introduced himself and is about to be your best friend. Ryan and Gunnar lived together in the Giuseppe and beyond, becoming even closer friends whilst terrorizing Howie and during fog and laser Four Loko-fueled dance parties.
Jerry and Ryan also became friends at UPenn and is the perpetual instigator of both
tuxedo bombing parties and high stakes karaoke showdowns. You can find Jerry being
a true Southern Gentleman, phenomenal friend or volunteering his undershirt for
wedding headbands.
JERRY STAPP
Russ, as you may have guessed from other bios, is also a great friend from Penn & Beta. Considerate, proactively friendly (he was Ryan’s first Beta friend to introduce himself to Caity), and usually first to vault the groom into a wedding crowd surf - we hope to have fewer injuries and less nudity than his wedding, but would it really be a great day without all that?
RUSS GEHRETT
Doug (yup, another Beta) may seem a bit quieter than some of these other guys, but that's
just his Fiona Apple side. Trust that, throughout his and Ryan’s very long friendship and
at a certain point of the evening, TOOL-and-Macklemore-Doug will arrive. There MAY be
a band learning a song somewhere for an epic performance….
DOUG PETKANICS
Harry started off as a friend of Bondurants and through old-timey suspenders, all things hot dog, and his close personal relationship to his uncle Larry Bell, rapidly became a much closer friend to Caity and Ryan. He's practicing the ceremony to keep you all from drinking for no more than 10 minutes and prefers to be addressed by his full title, Minister McNuggets.
HARRY McCANN
CHARLIE PRUNKA-SULLIVAN
Charlie nearly beat Molly out for the MOH spot, but due to her lack of thumbs and inability to not eat garbage, she lost. Caity and Charlie have been besties for 11 years, and even though we're not sure she knows her own name yet, she is 100% tail-waggingly positive that Ryan will be around forever. She loves belly rubs and prefers that you use her hashtag (#choogstagram) instead of ours, because she'd like to be inst-famous. What a millennial.
Peace up, A-Town down
Yeah, ok, lil' Jon
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, yeah
