Bethany Elaine Hill and Mitchell Stephen McCarthy were married Oct. 20 at Private Estate, an events space in Germantown, N.Y. The Rev. Jane Duffield, a Presbyterian minister, officiated.
Mrs. McCarthy, 30, is the director of communications of CommonBond, a financial technology company in Manhattan. She graduated from Duke.
She is the daughter of Pamela M. Hill and Douglass O. Hill of Raleigh, N.C. The bride’s father retired as an urban planner for the City of Raleigh. Her mother is an adjunct instructor for adult English as a second language at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, and retired as a literacy teacher at North Ridge Elementary School in Raleigh.
Mr. McCarthy, also 30, is a composer in Brooklyn of works for chamber orchestra and piano, including a piece that premiered at Queen Elisabeth Hall in Antwerp in November 2017. In February, a piece of his premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and other works have been performed at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He is also a founder of Kelly/McCarthy Dance Music, a contemporary ballet company in Manhattan.
He graduated magna cum laude from Hofstra.
He is a son of Celina J. Bunn and Michael S. McCarthy, both of Bristol, Conn. The groom’s mother retired as a senior risk management analyst at the Hartford, the insurance company in Hartford, and now is the business development manager for the office-furniture installation company in Bristol of her husband, Ronald P. Bunn. The groom’s father is a lead quality process inspector, in Middletown, Conn., at Pratt & Whitney, the jet engine manufacturer, for which the groom’s stepmother, Shirley J. McCarthy, is a quality assurance inspector.
The bride and groom met in 2012 at a Halloween party in New York.
