Ashtar Analeed DuPreez - Maid of Honor

Waleeta and Ashtar have been best friends since Jimmy Carter was President. Their childhoods were spent having adventures - climbing trees, sneaking out, creating song-and-dance performances for their families, and going to each other's school parties.

Their teens were spent being very cool, mostly at Tori Amos concerts. Their twenties were spent in DC, with a brief stint in Barcelona, where they ate tomato bread and found fried eggs in every meal they ordered.

Now, decades later, there's no one else Waleeta wanted to be by her side on her wedding day. Other than the groom, of course.

Mark Castillo - Best Man

Mark and Paul trace their friendship to the early days of high school when George H.W. Bush was President. They quickly bonded by shooting pool at Chris’s Billiards, listening to hip hop group Outkast, and cruising aimlessly through the City of Chicago in Mark’s souped up Chevy Monte Carlo.

Their friendship has remained strong over the years, Paul having been Mark’s best man. As they mark these major milestones, they celebrate how far they’ve come from their early years and are grateful for the bond of their continuing friendship.