Diana Fendig Willkie and Frank Watrous Hamilton IV are to be married Sept. 1. The Rev. Lucia P. Ballantine, an Episcopal priest and a cousin of the bride, is to officiate at the bride’s parents’ home in Aspen, Colo.
The bride, 28, will take her husband’s name. She works at the Gagosian Gallery in New York, and helps manage a private collection. She graduated from Vanderbilt.
The bride is a daughter of Carlotta Willkie and Wendell L. Willkie II. The bride’s father retired as a senior vice president and the general counsel of MeadWestvaco in Richmond, Va., and is now an adjunct professor of law at N.Y.U. and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. He also served in the administrations of both President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W. Bush in legal and management positions. Her mother was a program administration at the National Endowment for the Humanities, in Washington, before becoming a stay-at-home parent.
The bride is a great-granddaughter of Wendell L. Willkie, the 1940 Republican presidential nominee.
Mr. Hamilton, 31, is an investment banker for mergers and acquisitions at Centerview Partners, an investment bank in New York. He graduated cum laude from Georgetown and received an M.B.A. from Columbia.
He is a son of Pamela Dyer Hamilton and Mr. Hamilton III of Vero Beach, Fla. The groom’s mother was a stay-at-home parent. His father is a senior adviser in the New York office of Promontory Interfinancial Network, a financial technology company in Arlington, Va.
The couple met at a bar in New York in 2015, and had their first date soon thereafter.
