profiles of the wedding party: megan & andy

grooms man, andy piper, the youngest of the bunch. andy is like a little little brother, although i pale in his size now. when i first started my ministry career as a staff person at mountain top. i served with andy's sister jenny. on our breaks between camps i'd go to nashville with jenny and stay at her folks house and sometimes sleep on the bunk bed in andy's room. he and i became buds playing video games and even going out to the movies. it was some sorta big brother relationship thing, me being 19 yrs old him 12. that's where it started

since then i have, along with everyone else in his life, have watched him become a huge guy. we've maintained our big bro relationship, but it has increasingly become just a regular friendship. for two or three years straight we spent a lot of time together playing volleyball with various leagues around nashville, mostly with some iraqi men's group that rented his church's gym. that was some fun times.

along with andy, jenny, becky and their folks elaine and curtis have been my nashville family. when i first moved to town in '00 it was elaine who would pick me up off the side of the road when my car broke down. i would go out to eat with curtis and andy after church and watch the titans play. elaine helped me get a couple of jobs and still throws me some work every now and then. they have been really good to me treating me as one of their own. i don't know where i'd be without them.

maid of honor, megan lane, erin's best friend. megan has been erin's best friend since childhood, while never actually living within any real proximity to each other. i think the closest was about an hour and half drive. megan and erin met while in high school doing conference and jurisdictional events and leadership stuff for the umc. after college erin went to the university of south carolina and megan the university of tennessee, so one of the many weekends they get together is the ut/usc football (which i've gotten to take part in a number of times, it was the first time i met megan too). they have all kinds of fun stories to tell, but they are not mine and i wouldn't be able to tell them nearly as well, so i'll refrain.

megan has been all over the states, but now resides back in knoxville, although we'd love it if she moved to nashville. megan got to town yesterday and has been out and about helping erin with all kinds of last minute details. which, reminds me, i should be doing my share.