Brooke Elizabeth Bergen and Joseph Farrington Gookin were married Nov. 8 at the Ole Hanson Beach Club in San Clemente, Calif. Pastor Courtney Ellis, a Presbyterian minister, officiated.
The bride, 30, and groom, 34, are both assistant district attorneys in Brooklyn for the Kings County district attorney’s office, where they met.
The bride graduated from the University of Southern California and received a law degree from Pepperdine University.
She is a daughter of Ann E. Bergen and Robert C. Bergen of Ladera Ranch, Calif. The bride’s father is a lawyer in private practice in Irvine, Calif. Her mother is a college and career specialist at Laguna Beach High School in Laguna Beach, Calif.
The groom is also a major in the Army National Guard, stationed in Pittsburgh. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh and received a master’s degree in public policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He has a law degree from the University of Michigan.
He is a son of Freda I. Gookin of Meadville, Pa., and the late Paul Gookin. The groom’s mother retired as an operating room technician at the Meadville Medical Center. His father was a quality control technician at PPG Works, a glass factory in Meadville, and an Army combat veteran who served in Vietnam, achieving the rank of sergeant.
