Callie Press Lawrence and Brendan Thomas Leanos were married Sept. 29 at a private loft space on Bleecker Street and Seventh Avenue in New York. William Madden, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated.
The bride, 31, is the chief operating officer of KARA, a handbag company in New York. She graduated from Brown. She is a daughter of Laurie E. Lawrence of New York and the late Mark Lawrence Jr.
The bride is a great-granddaughter of David Lawrence, a writer and the founder of U.S. News & World Report.
The groom, also 31, is a corporate associate at Proskauer Rose, the New York law firm. He graduated magna cum laude from Middlebury College, and received a law degree, also magna cum laude, from Fordham.
He is a son of Karen B. Leanos and Thomas S. Leanos of Long Valley, N.J.
The couple met, through mutual friends, in January 2011 at a New York bar.
