Credits

Some of the many people without whom the celebration of our wedding would not have been possible.

Our parents

Larry Standley & Susan Blough
Larry is a retired musician turned mechanical engineer, private pilot, and keen observer of human nature. Susan is an M.D., an amazing resource for all things physiological, and an avid gardener. They were first introduced by their mothers, married June 13th, 1979, and live in Boise, ID.
David & Ellen Stenson
David and Ellen met in graduate school at U Mass Amherst, where they were both studying topology. Fortunately, David passed muster with Charlie, Ellen's Siamese. (As Ellen put it years later, "I married a man of whom my cat approved.") They wed June 28th, 1969; earned their Ph.D.s; and moved to Cleveland Heights, OH. Both have made expert careers of teaching mathematics to future generations.

Note that 2009 is the year of Susan and Larry's 30th anniversary, Ellen and David's 40th anniversary, and Eve and Brian's zeroth anniversary.

Grandparents

Lois Schenk, Brian's paternal grandmother, grew up in Southern Idaho, where she married Bill Standley and raised two sons: David and Larry. After Bill passed away over a decade ago, she married Edward Schenk on New Years Day 2000. They live in Twin Falls, ID.
Dorris Murdock, Brian's maternal grandmother, lives in Idaho City, ID, in where she runs a medical transcription buiness and a bed-and-breakfast. An accomplished author, she has written a number of novels inspired by her time raising four children in the Nigerian bush.
Marvin Blough, Brian's maternal grandfather has practiced internal medicine all over the world, including Nampa, ID, Puerto Rico, and Nigeria. He lives with his wife Mary in Melba, ID.

Although Anne and Joseph Stenson, Mary and Earl Shipley, and Bill Standley are no longer with us, they are remembered fondly.

Wedding participants

Kate Stenson, Eve's ''big little'' sister
Kate is two years, four months, one week, six days, six hours, and 31 minutes younger than Eve . . . and about six inches taller. She got her B.S. in Marine Biology and Psychobiology (which, she will not hesitate to tell you, is entirely different from Biopsychology).
Eric Standley, Brian's brother
An undergraduate at Boise State University, Eric is pursuing a BA in German and a BS in Chemistry, and plans to obtain a PhD in an Organic Chemistry-related field after graduating in May 2010. Currently, Eric works in a research lab doing bioinorganic synthesis. He enjoys rock climbing, riding his motorcycle, hiking, and living in the massive shadow of his brother's academic career. Having spent a year abroad in Germany in 2007-2008, he is now a self-proclaimed expert on German culture, language, and more interestingly, beer.
Jessie Rosenberg
Jessie was introduced to dancing through Eve, and has since become an addict. In her spare time, she likes to sing, read, and occasionally do Applied Physics research.
Tyler R McMurray
Born in Boise Idaho, Tyler spent his early formative years pursuing outdoor adventures with like-minded friend Brian. Post highschool Tyler moved to Orange, California where he attended Chapman University earning a BFA in Film Production and particpating in club althetics. Upon graduation Tyler moved to Los Angeles where he reconnected with his longtime friend Brian and met Eve for the first time.
Missy Frederick
Eve and Missy first met on The Ram! (exclamation point optional). Since then, their adventures have ranged from traveling through ceilings to commandeer ice cream (OK, Eve did most of the work there), making pilgrimages to Cedar Point (where one MUST start at the back of the park), singing Jason Robert Brown musical albums, making meringue without a hand mixer (tip: it takes a LOT of stirring), and jaunting off to Vegas on a whim - to see Star Trek: The Experience, of course. Missy is now a restaurant columnist and theater critic in D.C. whose tendency to elongate her vowels Eve always finds amusing.
Stephen Hirai
A long-time fellow LAN partier with Brian, Stephen is also an experienced Mahjong player and an all-around good guy.
John-Paul Holub, photographer
John-Paul Holub was born in Portland, Oregon and grew up in the mountains of Northern Idaho. He attended the University of Idaho where he met Brian freshmen year in the engineering dorm, where both soon found a shared interest in Star Trek and Skiing, not necessarily in that order. Working in San Diego he met Eve for the first time and has since enjoyed two fantastic ski adventures to Whistler, BC and Schweitzer, ID with the happy couple.
Jean Chang, photographer
Jean Wei-Chen Chang is a student at Boise State University. Enjoys baking as experiments, reading manga in Japanese for frustration, traveling for appreciation, and taking pictures as memory enhancers. The acquaintanceship with Brian began in 7th grade when they were both students of the String family (the kind that goes 'squeek').
Dave Felt, photographer
Dave is a man of a great many talents. In addition to his considerable photography skills (which which he has documented many a Bellan Group get-together), Eve is particularly grateful for those talents of his involved in making high-current, high-voltage electronic systems (for plasma experiments) that that only work wonderfully and look snazzy, but also never electrocute anyone.

Many thanks to everyone else who shared with us the photos and videos they took.

Julia Greer, pianist
Nationally recognized scientist, incredibly accomplished musician, and fellow Rollerblader.

Assistance and support in many different ways

We would not have been able to pull off this shindig without these people. In addition to those listed, we are also grateful to those helped us out but who asked not to be mentioned specifically.

Patrick Ahern
Mr. Ahern is bon vivant with a finely cultivated taste for the enjoyably disreputable. Any story Eve could tell you about their misadventures together is most assuredly false. These are the known facts: Mr. Ahern and Ms. Eve bonded in the newspaper office over their shared distaste for normal sleeping patterns. Now that Mr. Ahern is unable to get away with such youthful indiscretions, he knows when the Great American Bank Job comes his way, Ms. Eve will be an invaluable member of his crew.
Jenelle Bray
Computational chemist, frisbee player, and potlucker extraordinaire.
Adrienne Erickcek
Life-long Star Wars fan, accomplished cosmologist, and fellow Cerocer.
Bao Nguyen Quoc Ha
Bao is Eve's friend and officemate in the Bellan Plasma Group and Brian's partner in the recent acquisition of motorcyle licenses. He and Brian are both also Arch Linux fans. Bao has the unusual distinction that his name, in Mandarin, means "exploding shrimp."
Neil Halelamien
Neil grew up on the mean streets of suburban Orlando, dashing around his high school with his labcoat billowing behind him. After making (and eventually losing) a bunch of money on a dot-com IPO he went to college at Carnegie Mellon, where he trained AIBO robot dogs to play tic-tac-toe. He once started a conga line at a goth club, although he did not succeed in his ultimate goal of immanentizing the eschaton by getting robot dogs in black leather to infiltrate goth clubs and start massively parallel conga lines around the world.

Undaunted, Neil then came to Caltech to study neuroscience, where he currently sends electricity through people's brains in fun and interesting ways. Neil met Eve and her then-roommate Jessie at a board game night during orientation week, became confused when Eve did a forward roll over him as he studied on the lawn, and later (the day after their first Prufrock Halloween party) started a quasi-weekly consuming of Pillsbury® Orange Sweet Rolls with Eve and Jessie. Neil met Brian soon after, and later moved into a house with Eve, Brian, Jessie, and Matt, where Neil had a grand time sampling the various scrumptious treats Eve and Brian would cook. He also accidentally became president of the Caltech Ballroom Dance Club, where he occasionally helps Eve teach Ceroc dance classes.
Matthew Kelley
A Caltech grad student studying space chemistry (a job that requires spending sleepless nights with telescopes in what would otherwise be great places to visit), he is also adept at frisbee, floor hockey, cooking, and raiding.
Wendy Mercer
Hailing from Boise, Wendy is now a graduate student in the Caltech Chemistry Department. A ballroom dancer and rabbit lover, she also makes incredible desserts.
Nick Monteleone & Rebecca Gura Like Eve, Nick is a former Fordham Ram editor. In the years since, he met Rebecca and they bonded via shared appreciation for all things Neil Gaimen.
Christine Romano
Intrepid outdoorswoman, chemist of amazing perseverence, maker of delicious mashed potatoes.
Kana Takematsu
A fellow graduate student at Caltech, Kana uses a combination of theory and laser to study molecules and reactions in the Earth's atmosphere. She first met Eve and Brian through frisbee, and they won her loyalty after feeding her at potluck. She is mighty happy for the couple and is now inspired to find stars of her own.
Michael Thorne
Mike is a hobo Eve fed once.

Editors' note: When we asked our friends how they would like to be descriped in our acknowledgements, we did not anticipate the diversity of responses we would receive. We have done our best to honor the descriptions they requested -- even the ones that were somewhat more "creative" (and/or invented from whole cloth) than others -- and to fill in for those who preferred not to write anything themselves.