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Kelley Marie Brennan is 33 years old, and is a Reading Teacher at
Lake Avenue Elementary School in Saratoga.
Timothy William Brennan is also 33, works for
Freihofer’s, and cooks part-time for Bentley’s Tavern. They both live in
Saratoga Springs.
Kelley and Timothy attended SUNY Potsdam for undergraduate
school where they met, and dated their freshman year at college. After
going their separate ways at the end of the school year, they would see
each other now and then over the next 11 years at weddings and parties
of mutual friends. Finally, in 2007, they reconnected and began dating
again, and have been together for the past four years.
Tim proposed on October 8, 2010, but there was an interesting
twist. One New Year’s Eve, they went to a party and played a game where
everyone wrote a New Year’s resolution on a piece of paper, put it in a
hat and passed it around. Everyone pulled one resolution out of the hat,
read it out loud and guessed who wrote it. Kelley ended up getting Tim’s,
and it said, “To marry the woman of my dreams.” In October, the couple
went to a family cabin for a weekend getaway. The first night there, Tim
gave Kelley a heart-shaped box. She opened it and inside was the little
white piece of paper...the resolution that said, “To marry the woman of
my dreams.” When she looked at him, he was down on his knee with the
ring in his hand, asking her to marry him!
Their wedding was on Friday, September 16, 2011, with a
wedding party that consisted of a Maid of Honor (Kelley’s best friend,
Amanda Johnson); a Best Man (Tim’s cousin, Devin Mahoney); three
bridesmaids (Kelley’s sister-in-law, Kristin Ekstrom, her friend, Kristin
Finn and Tim’s sister, Kelly Brennan); four groomsmen (Kelley’s brother,
Craig Ekstrom, and Tim’s friends, John Waters, Brian Finn and Brian
Borges); and two flower girls (Jenna Ekstrom and Kimani Castro, Kelley
and Tim’s nieces).
The special day started with all of the girls taking their time
getting ready at the Union Gables Inn, which is also where the bride
and groom, bridal party and their friends stayed the night of the
wedding. It was absolutely beautiful and they had the whole Inn to
themselves for the night!
Since Kelley is a teacher, she couldn’t take too much time off at
the beginning of the school year, so they went on a two-night “mini
honeymoon” the day after the wedding to the Mirror Lake Inn in Lake
Placid. During the school break, the newlyweds are going to an allinclusive
resort in Aruba for a week! ■
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