Elizabeth Ann Carpenter and Patricia Mary Reilly were married May 4 at the Franklin Plaza Ballroom in Troy, N.Y. Assemblyman Charles D. Lavine, a Democrat representing New York State’s 13th District and a friend of Ms. Reilly, officiated.
Ms. Carpenter (left), 67, retired as the director of the driver improvement adjudication bureau at the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles in Albany.
She is the daughter of the late Josephine Casale Carpenter, who lived in Troy. Ms. Carpenter’s mother was a nurse’s aide at the Eddy Foundation, now the Eddy Memorial Geriatric Center in Troy.
Ms. Reilly, also 67, is a consultant on nonprofit- and transportation-related accounts at Bolton St.-Johns in Albany, a lobbying firm focusing on government affairs in New York State. She is also the vice chair of the Albany International Authority Airport Board. She is on the board of the New York State Mentoring Program, which runs statewide programs for middle schools and is based in Rensselaer. She graduated from St. John’s University, from which she also received a master’s degree in government and public administration.
She is a daughter of the late Patricia M. Reilly and the late William J. Reilly, who lived in Alfred, Me. Ms. Reilly’s father worked as a bus driver at the Avenue B & East Broadway Transit Company in New York. Her mother was a stay-at-home parent, and until the 1940s was a key punch operator at Raytheon in Boston.
The couple met in 1988 while working at the Department of Motor Vehicles in Albany, and in 1995 their careers went different directions. In February 2017, after 22 years, they reconnected while each happened to be on vacation in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
