A beloved principal fought back tears of happiness and appreciation when teachers, pupils, and her fiancé surprised her with an on-campus wedding ahead of her own big day. Brianna Lanoye, from Buffalo, New York, is the founding principal of the Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School's second Doat Street campus and is now entering her sixth year at the school. During that time, Principal Lanoye has seen her community grow from just 60 children during COVID to more than 425 staff and students today – and with that increased number of bodies has also come a growing affection for Principal Lanoye, who was scheduled to marry her fiancé, Zach Klapp, on Sunday, October 12. Knowing how much the school means to her colleague, who “would have loved for all her pupils to attend her wedding,” assistant principal Courtney Champlin decided that she wanted to plan something special with the school's pupils themselves to mark the occasion. And so, Ms. Champlin decided to go big and settled on hosting a surprise wedding at the school itself. For weeks, Ms. Champlin met with the school's team to coordinate decorations, contacted parents discreetly about the surprise, and even reached out to Zach to make sure he and the couple's moms could attend. As part of the plan, middle school students secretly practiced leading the ceremony, while it was agreed that elementary school pupils would be part of the bridal party. With Principal Lanoye completely unaware of the surprise, she noticed that students were rather formally dressed on Friday, October 3 – which she put down to the fact that pupils are free to wear their own clothes on Fridays, and perhaps she was overthinking the formalities. But then, with fellow teacher and videographer Greg McClure setting up his camera to record, Principal Lanoye was presented with a veil and told the news that, in fact, she was set to have a wedding at the school that very day. The principal was left completely stunned, covering her face in shock, bef
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