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Miller — Douglass
Eighteen nieces and nephews attended Whitney Munn Miller, daughter of Linda Bartlett Miller and Leverett Saltonstall Miller of Palm Beach, and Robert Royal Douglass Jr., son of Linda and Robert Royal Douglass of Greenwich, at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach.
Warm-weather informality was the order of the day for the men, who shed their jackets at the outdoor Bath and Tennis Club reception. On hearing the band’s trumpeter sound the Call to the Post for the Preakness Stakes (the bride’s parents and several guests had horses racing), guests rushed indoors to watch the race on a big screen arranged for the occasion.
The bride, a graduate of Deerfield Academy and Vanderbilt University, was a production coordinator in New York with the digital division of ABC News. Her forebears include newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Robert Douglass Jr. is a founder of Douglass Winthrop Advisors, an investment management firm in New York. Educated at Deerfield and at Dartmouth, where he also received an MBA, he holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.
Tufts – Filoon
Bostoners Amy Rowena Tufts and Robert Copeland Filoon, a son of Randi R. Filoon and Fred M. Filoon of Greenwich, met on a blind date. He proposed on a park bench near the Charles River.
Their wedding, a Unitarian Universalist ceremony, took place at the Old Whaling Church on Martha’s Vineyard, where the bride’s family has summered for many years. The newlyweds exited the Edgartown Yacht Club celebration aboard the Chappaquiddick Ferry, its surprise arrival at the club dock a “first” in the ferry’s history.
Amy, a daughter of Henry H. Tufts III of Brookline, Massachusetts, and the late Christine Anne Palmer, who lived in Chappaquiddick, is pursuing a master’s degree in interior design at the New England School of Art and Design in Boston. Formerly with K Capital Partners, she is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford.
Cope, as he is known, is an asset class specialist in the consulting services group of Bank of America in Boston. He is a graduate of Greenwich Country Day, Greenwich High School and Vanderbilt University. He and his bride honeymooned in Hawaii.
Darst – Leykum
Wearing a Brussels lace veil treasured by generations of her mother’s family, Elizabeth M. Darst, the daughter of Diane and David M. Darst of Greenwich, married Charles S. Leykum in a Presbyterian ceremony at Christ Episcopal Church due to a building project at Greenwich’s First Presbyterian Church. The Reverend William Crawford officiated.
The bride, who is keeping her name professionally, is an investment analyst at ESL Investments. Valedictorian of her Greenwich Academy class, she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard and received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
Her husband, also a Harvard Business School graduate, is the son of Rosalie and Charles R. Leykum of San Antonio, Texas. A portfolio manager at Soros Fund Management, he was president of his class for four years at Columbia University.
The couple met at Goldman Sachs, where both worked before business school.
Their wedding and reception at the Belle Haven Club reunited them with sixteen Harvard Business School classmates, five of them from Greenwich. A honeymoon in Australia and the South Pacific awaited the newlyweds. They live in Greenwich.
Maloney – Duval
The Right Reverend Michael Moynihan arranged a special wedding day surprise for Sally Tierney Maloney, whose family lives across from the Church of St. Michael the Archangel. North Street traffic was halted, altar servers unrolled a white runner and the robed priest led the bride, her attendants and family in procession over to the church, where bridegroom James Christopher Duval and guests awaited their arrival.
The bride, the daughter of Sally and Edward F. Maloney, is an equity trader at Flagg Street Capital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Greenwich Academy and Harvard. She and her husband played varsity hockey for their respective alma maters. His was Brown University.
Jim Duval, a graduate also of Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is pursuing a master’s degree in education at Simmons College. A son of Donna and Louis J. Duval of Winchester, Massachusetts, he teaches at the FA Day School in Newton and is an assistant coach for the Harvard women’s ice hockey team.
The newlyweds, who met in Boston, plan to make it their home.
Snowden – Marvel
Melissa Star Snowden and Howard Jackson Marvel, the director of financial assistance and associate dean of admissions at Hotchkiss School, were married in an Episcopalian ceremony at the Watch Hill Chapel in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. A reception followed at the Misquamicut Club.
Melissa, the alumni programs officer at Hotchkiss, is a graduate of Greenwich Academy and Wheaton College. She is one of the six daughters of former Greenwich residents Ann Snowden of Watch Hill and the late George Grant Snowden III. Her cathedral length lace-edged veil was worn by her sister Ann Johnson in 1989 when Melissa was a flower girl. “I always remembered it,” she said.
Jackson is the son of Mary Jane and Robert “Robin” Marvel of Watch Hill and Boca Grande, Florida. An alumnus of Brooks School and a graduate, cum laude, of Bates College, he received an MBA/MEd from Lehigh University and was elected to the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.
The couple honeymooned in Italy, Spain and Portugal. They have an apartment in an upper class boys’ dormitory at Hotchkiss, where Jackson is a dorm parent.
Stricker – Skelli-Cohen
American and French guests converged on London for festivities surrounding the wedding of Jamison Simon Stricker, daughter of Jane and Robert Stricker of Greenwich, and Billy Skelli-Cohen, son of Robert Skelli-Cohen of Miami and the late Caroline Rosenberg of Paris.
Rabbi Hillel Silverman, rabbi emeritus of Temple Sholom, Greenwich, co-officiated with Rabbi Thomas Salamon of London at the Berkeley Hotel. Dining and dancing continued well into the night, ending with an after-party on the terrace of the newlyweds’ suite.
The bride, transferred to London by American Express, met her husband on a blind date. A graduate of Greenwich High School and the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, she recently received a master’s degree in art business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London. She is now with International Asset Management.
The groom, a graduate of Miami Country Day School and Florida International University, was born in Paris and spent his childhood in France. Until recently a regional business director for Great Hotels of the World, he is studying for an MBA at Cass Business School in London, where the couple will reside.
Tilghman – Hill
Many Greenwich friends of Brown University graduates Katherine Louise Tilghman and Clifton David Hill attended their wedding at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church on Martha’s Vineyard, a summer destination of the bride’s family since the nineteenth century.
Katherine Tilghman Hill, a graduate also of Holderness School and the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University, is a senior financial/economic analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She is the daughter of Jeanne and Frank Tilghman, now of Chappaquiddick and Wells River, Vermont.
Clifton Hill, a market strategist at Tudor Investment in Greenwich, was class president at Brown in 1998, the couple’s senior year, when they became engaged. He is the son of Diana and Rev. Marvin Hill of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, who assisted the Reverend Robert Edmunds during the marriage ceremony and gave a blessing.
The couple’s wedding and reception afterward at the Atria also celebrated their parents’ wedding anniversaries: the Hills’ thirty-fourth and, two days later, the Tilghmans’ thirty-fifth.
The Greenwich newlyweds spent their honeymoon in Zimbabwe on a safari at Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve.
Donley – Morton
A “BBQ and Bluegrass Party” celebrating the groom’s North Carolina roots kicked off a festive weekend at the Boulder, Colorado, wedding of Dana Louise Donley and Jason Franklin Morton. The Reverend Dedee Z. Rigg of Greenwich officiated at White Farm, the home of family friends. A tented reception followed.
Dana Donley Morton is the daughter of Betsy Jordan Hand and Albert Hand of Boulder, formerly of Greenwich, and Toddy and Jim Donley of Greenwich. She is insights manager for Radar Communications, a global qualitative market research and consulting firm in Boulder. The Pomfret School graduate earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at the University of Colorado.
Jason Morton’s parents are Jane Sullivan Morton and Frank Morton, both of Burlington, North Carolina. The groom, a network security engineer with Corporate Express in Broomfield, Colorado, is a candidate for a master’s degree in computer information systems from the University of Denver. He earned a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science at the University of North Carolina.
The Boulder newlyweds enjoyed a “mini-moon” in Aspen before their honeymoon trip to Costa Rica a few months later.
Kidd – Devendorf
Catherine Margaret Kidd and Don Paul Devendorf met in Harbin, China, where both were studying Mandarin Chinese at a language school, she during a Yale junior-year-abroad program and he as a Middlebury graduate with a Chinese heritage.
Catherine Kidd, who is keeping her name, is a daughter of Carla and William Kidd of Greenwich. Now an associate at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, she is a graduate of Greenwich Country Day School, Andover, Yale and Columbia University Law School.
Her husband, an associate in the investment banking division at Morgan Stanley, is a son of Alice and Don Devendorf of Carlsbad, California. A Burke Mountain Academy and Middlebury College graduate, the bridegroom received a master’s degree from Columbia and an MBA from the Wharton School.
The Manhattan couple exchanged wedding vows on a rainy day at the bride’s parents’ home. Justice of the Peace Anne Isaacson of Riverside performed the ceremony. Following the tented reception, dinner and dancing, the happy celebration wound down indoors at an after-party.
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