Samantha is Emily's oldest sister. She lives in Los Angeles with her two sons: Izzy & JD. In her spare time she competes in salsa and bachata dance competitions!

Attending:
Family Brunch ✅
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @matamoros_sam

Izzy is Emily's youngest nephew! He loves to skateboard & draw 

Attending:
Family Brunch ✅

JD is Emily's oldest nephew! He loves to sing & he plays the piano

Attending:
Family Brunch ✅

Amanda is Emily's sister who lives in Santa Monica. She recently welcomed home Baby Summer!

Attending:
Family Brunch ✅
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @amanda_michelle08

Myles is Amanda's fiance and father to Summer! He is a musician/artist based in LA

Attending:
Family Brunch ✅
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @milesgaines

Maria is Mario's younger sister, she is engaged to Robert and they live together in The Netherlands. Together they've created this funny little guy named Timothy Ace! Their wedding is only a few weeks before this party so they will still be in the honeymoon phase! Fun fact: Maria has completed a 6-year apprenticeship in glass blowing.

Attending:
Family Brunch ✅
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @robertvermeulen

Maarten is Mario's dad and Angela is his girlfriend, they live together in Amsterdam. Maarten is an avid runner who composes music, and Angela is an excellent chef! Fun fact: Angela owns a home in Portugal and they both speak Portugese! 

Attending:
Family Brunch ✅

📷 Instagram  @angelahoudijk

Tijmen has been Mario's best friend since he moved from Haarlem to Hengelo in 1996, we love playing board games together and neither of us are sore losers at all, we swear! Tijmen met Okky in Indonesia and they live together in The Netherlands, Tijmen is a lucky man because Okky is really into cooking!

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @tijmeneijkelenkamp

📷 Instagram  @maria_eij8

Emily has known Monique since college. Monique is from Northern California and Stef from Athens. They are recently engaged and live together in Charleston with their dog.

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @monique_askeland

📷 Instagram  @stefanosgr5

Allie is an amazing therapist and an even better friend! She lives in Brooklyn and hosts a lot of parties herself. Fun fact: she loves goats, which we found out after our original invite. Especially for her we put another one on the website, see if you can find it. 

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @allie_funk

Ari is a guest of the original party. Emily has been friends with her since college. Ari established her own clothing brand directly after graduating, and it is a huge success! 

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @arianneelmy

Bianca and Emily have been best friends, since they were teenagers living in Los Angeles. She lives in New York and recently passed the bar exam! Before she relocated to NYC she lived in Paris and Armenia. 

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @bibolik

Cecilia is Emily's mom, who lives in Los Angeles. Cecilia is an amazing cook, and makes some of the best guac you will ever taste! She loves to peloton and listen to podcasts in her free time. 

Attending:
Family Brunch ✅

📷 Instagram  @cecilia.matamoros.bono

Charlie is Mario's stepfather and has the soul of an old rockstar. He is a talented metalworker who creates beautiful custom gates. Fun fact: he has made a few paintings in our home!

Attending:
Family Brunch ✅

Eddie is born and raised in NY and will be the tallest man at the party! Fun fact: this man has a unique talent: being able to sleep standing up at a party! 

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @ejenn5

Mario's best friend in NYC since 2018! Erik is the most enthusiastic man we know, and we are so happy to live walking distance from him! Fun fact: Kat is the one who introduced us!

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @bigtime_berg

Gayatri lives right by us in the Upper East Side, she was born in India and went to college in the UK. We just went to Ireland together to celebrate her birthday and we can't wait to do another trip together!

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @gayatri_kapur

Mario and Gjoneto met during training at Delta, where Mario convinced him to move to NY. Best decision he ever made haha. Gjoneto is from Italy and likes to travel.

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @giio.pr3

Henriette is Mario's mother, and goes by Jet. She lives in the picturesque town of Gouda in The Netherlands, and is a nurse. At the original party she performed breakdance in a Tupac outfit, what will she do this time?! 

Attending:
Family Brunch ✅

Justin and Mario have been friends since elementary school in Hengelo, where Justin lives. He was a guest of the first edition and we can't wait to party with him again!

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

Justyn's heritage is from Trinidad and he loves to dance! He lives in Brooklyn now, where he throws the most epic rooftop parties! If our party is half as fun, we'll have done a good job! 

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @justynrich

Mario is Kaspers oldest friend, we met when he was two years old! They hung out constantly as teenagers in Hengelo! Fun fact: he's been on The Bachelorette. 

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @kasperpaalman

Kat and Emily have been friends since college and traveled to India and Italy together. She was a guest of the first edition, and we're so excited she's joining for the 2nd edition! She's an professional photographer so with a little luck she'll snap a good pic of you :)

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @kgroft

Lexi and Emily grew up together in Los Angeles, and have been friends since the 7th grade! Lexi currently lives in Los Angeles with her puppy Phil, but is always in NYC for work trips. She is an event planner for appleTV, so she is always at the coolest events! 

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @lexlexlexj

Melissa and Emily have been friends since college, the met during a design internship at Bibhu Mohapatra. They used to cook together every week when they lived in Brooklyn.

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @melwasse

Mario met Pelle in Curacao in 2012 and they've been friends since! He is a guest of the original edition, and we can't wait to see him again! Pelle is world traveler, but is always happy to come back home to Amsterdam. He's always up for a good party!

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @pelle_van_de_logt

This is a man of many talents, we're honored to have him! He lives in NY and works for Google.

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @ryanw_042

Tal grew up in LA and moved to New York a few years ago. She is the latest member of our circle and already we can't get enough of her! Emily and her have an ongoing movie date every week.

Attending:
Friends Night ✅

📷 Instagram  @talleecastl