Samantha Rivera, Alex Brandt Married In July

Samantha Leigh Rivera and Alex Lamar Brandt were united in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony at a Nuptial Mass Saturday, July 16, at noon, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Odessa. The wedding ceremony was officiated by Reverend Joseph Uecker, a close friend of the Rivera family. The choir, Elaine Randolph, Brianne McGuire, Nancy Aguirre and Christian Roth, provided the ceremony music consisting of guitar and violin. Elizabeth Kloesel and Rebecca Kolwes, aunts of the groom, read the scripture readings.