Meet the Team
The people that raised us, the ones we grew up with, that we learned how to navigate life with, and the people that have been part of our story these past six years. Plus, the ones that are completely new here (meaning to earth because they’re children). Our wedding is about our love, of course, but it is also about the incredible humans who have made our lives together so far an absolute adventure. Each person as a small anecdote about what makes them special and why they mean so much to us. Please read through and be sure to say hello at the wedding!
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MOTHER OF THE GROOMIt all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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Flower GirlSophia is one of the strongest and bravest girls with the biggest heart. She loves unicorns and glitter and being the life of the party. She has been on Spring Break since she was two years old. She was flower girl at Adriel and Abby’s wedding and we are so happy to have her join Mila at ours!
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BROTHER OF HONORWhen Bashel and Adriel were kids, they didn’t have cable. This meant that they needed to find other ways to entertain themselves, so they would make up games wherever they could. Their favorite was “The Last One”, where they would try to have the final sliced cucumber at dinner. Adriel once hid his on top of a picture frame. Bashel has still never won this game.
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SISTER-IN-LAWAbby is the big sister Bashel never had. She’s the first person Bashel goes to when she needs an honest opinion on anything; design, career advice, and even the wedding dress. Abby and Mila broke into Bash and Dan’s apartment while they were in Barcelona and decorated it as an engagement surprise.
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SISTER OF THE GROOMIt all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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BROTHER-IN-LAWIt all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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FLOWER GIRLMila, or Mila Bo Bila for long, is Adriel and Abby’s daughter and comedy legend, she lives to entertain. For Halloween in 2025, she wanted to be a Shabbat table (she wore it for one minute after being bribed with a piece of candy). Half of Bashel and Daniel’s vocabulary is just Mila quotes.
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RING BEARERBlake, Blakey, Blak-a-man is also known as the Energizer Bunny. Ever since he was 7 months old, he loved to jump over and over for ten minutes at a time and he wouldn’t get tired. Soon after he learned to run (specifically away from his parents and towards danger). One of the happiest people to ever grace this earth.
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BRIDESMAIDShayna is Bashel’s oldest friend. Legend has it, they met at the local park as their soviet babysitters shared a cigarette. Their favorite tradition is spending the first day of the new year together at the Lubarsky household, eating delicious home cooked food, talking plans and dreams for the following year, and nursing their hangovers from the night before (mostly Bashel).
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BRIDESMAIDRoshelle and Bashel are friends by both chance and choice. Neighbors by chance, and after numerous elementary squabbles over who-knows-what, they always made up by choice. These days they never argue, preferring to spend their time chatting about adult life and playing board games, or going dancing. And now they’re neighbors in Brooklyn (by choice!) and get to see each other all the time.
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GROOMSMANIt all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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GROOMSMANIt all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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FATHER OF THE BRIDEGrowing up, Bashel loved weddings. When she was little she would accost her father in the middle of a twelve person dinner party and say, “Daddy! Marry me!” Alex would interrupt the entire dinner party each time, and put on a mini wedding. He never missed a performance, show, or play, but he did forget to pick Bashel up from Hebrew school once…
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MOTHER OF THE BRIDEIn 2020, Alina decided she wanted to build a pool. But not just any pool. This pool has an entire 10×10 kiddie pool area for her future grandchildren. This was before either of her children were even married. Now, her grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and all her friends enjoy the pool every summer. Any excuse to spend time with her loved ones.
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SISTER-IN-LAWIt all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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BROTHER OF THE GROOM AND BEST MANIt all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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BRIDESMAIDA school neither of them wanted to go to, and a Wednesday pop quiz in a class Bashel shouldn’t have been in, led to a ten years (and counting) of beautiful friendship. Ruth and Bashel are two peas in a pod, Bashel used to tell people they were twins and Ruth would immediately let people know that they weren’t. They have grown together through every stage of adulthood so far, and this is just the beginning!
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BRIDESMAIDYou would never believe it, but despite going to the same school, growing up in the same neighborhood, and being friends with the same people, Bash and Mel didn’t become friends until after high school graduation. Their favorite pastime is putting on a good movie, cracking open a bottle of wine, and not watching the movie at all and talking for the entire duration.
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BRIDESMAIDNo matter where they find themselves, Bashel and Marisa will be dancing and having a great time. In the short three years that they have been friends, they’ve gone to, what feels like, a hundred different music shows around the city. If it was up to Marisa, they would be going to at least two every single weekend.
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BRIDESMAIDDasha and Bashel immediately connected over growing up as Soviet Jews and their shared love of impromptu road trips accompanied by a beverage, a perfect playlist, and the same 10 conversations they’ve had a million times. For example: Dasha unfollowed Dan on instagram a month before Bash and Dan started dating because she thought she would never see him again.
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GROOMSMANIt all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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GROOMSMANMila Bo Bila
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GROOMSMANMike is Ruth’s other (better?) half. Bashel was happily their third wheel for three years, and then she brought in Dan. In the past six years, the four of them have been on countless adventures together. Festivals, escape the rooms, board games, and dinner parties. We’ve grown together and love talking about what the future holds for the four of us.
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GROOMSMANMila Bo Bila