A graduate of William Woods University in Fulton, Mo., where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English communications, Ms. Kunkler is now a senior vice president, financial adviser and the global sports and entertainment director at Morgan Stanley in Kansas City, Mo., where she lives and grew up.
Born and raised in Phoenix, Ms. Todare graduated from Arizona State University, from which she also received a master’s degree in nonprofit studies. (She was also a four-year letterman in golf.) Ms. Todare is now the president of Global Diversity Logistics, a Phoenix-based company specializing in transportation services, which she founded in May 2017.
After reconnecting on the phone, the two kept in touch on a regular basis for four months. Then, in February 2018, Ms. Todare traveled to Kansas City, Mo., at Ms. Kunkler’s invitation, where she walked into a crowded bar that Ms. Kunkler was performing at with her band.
“She spotted me immediately,” Ms. Todare said, “and pointed at me while she was singing.”
Ms. Kunkler said that the best part of the night was that “Brooke got to go home with the leader of the band, and we’ve been together ever since.”
In the years that they have been together, though, the two have lived apart: Ms. Todare, a lung cancer survivor, is now battling breast cancer and still resides in Phoenix.
The couple married Nov. 11, at the Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia in Scottsdale, Ariz., with Douglas Anning, a minister with American Marriage Ministries, officiating. Some 118 guests attended ceremony, with 250 attending a reception that followed; all were asked to be fully vaccinated.
