We are so excited to have you all joining us in Boston for our wedding. Your presence & support mean so much to us, and we are lucky to have you in our lives.
Particular thanks, however, must be extended to the people who have worked extra hard to get us to this marriage of ours:

• Meg's parents, Linda & Chris, for calling Ry their "future son in law" long before we were ready to hear it, and for all their support.
  
• Ry's parents, Lynne & David, for not pushing Meg into a semi-frozen lake that first year, and for all their love.
  
• Kiera, Anders, & baby Lyxie, for the loan of their 1000 paper cranes, and for setting a girl-proposes-to-guy tradition in our families.
  
• Alice, Alex, & baby Linda, for far more years of friendship than 2 middle schoolers who met at lunchtime could ever have imagined.
  
• Nora, for cheering on our relationship from the second week & for 9 years of amazing friendship.
  
• Tim, for being there through thick and thin, and for putting up with Ry, who is his polar opposite in most things.
• Evan & Amy, for being awesome.

We also want to take a few lines here to remember some of the people who will not be able to join us on our wedding day, but whose impacts on our lives remain:

• Ry's "Uncle Dick" (Richard Herman), an outdoorsman and radiologist with a gruff exterior and a huge heart.
  
• Meg's "Aunt Jackie" (Jacqueline Grady), a poet and a painter-by-numbers whose infectious smiles & dancing would have enlivened our wedding.
  
• Ry's "Pop-Pop" (Lou Strohm), a man always quick with a joke, and/or a camera, who would have managed to looked more dapper than the groom.
  
• Meg's "Big Grandpa" (Jack Grady), possibly the only man ever to rhapsodize about compartmentalized airline food, we are certain that he would be horrified by our vision of a buffet brunch, but at least there's no broccoli on the menu, and his sarcasm will be missed.
  
• Ry's "Poppy" (Richard Herman), he might not have sat through the reception anyway, but he would have told a few good tales to a new audience that hadn't already heard them before he left.
  
• Meg's "Big GiGi" (Eileen Grady), a woman both subtle and feisty enough to defy description, Meg's father was hoping to show her, once and for all, how the other half lives.
  
• Ry's "Mom-Mom Maude" (Eleanor Herman), a world-class whistler with a quiet grace and strength, whose green thumb would truly appreciate the greenness of our wedding.