Erin Elizabeth Hatch and Benjamin Robert Thomas were married April 6 at District Winery in Washington. The Rev. G. Douglass Lewis, a friend of the bride’s family and past president of the Wesley Theological Seminary, performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Thomas, 31, works in Washington as the press secretary for the House Committee on Ways and Means. She graduated magna cum laude from Colgate University.
She is the daughter of Susan Daugherty Hatch and Eric J. Hatch of Bethesda, Md. The bride’s father is a marketing consultant based in Bethesda. Her mother is a freelance marketing writer, also based in Bethesda.
Mr. Thomas, who is 35 and works in Washington, is the legislative director for Representative Joaquin Castro, Democrat of Texas. He graduated from Baylor University.
He is a son of Alicia H. Thomas and Ron Thomas of San Antonio. The groom’s mother, who retired as the deputy chief academic officer for the Houston Independent School District, is now a consultant at Moak, Casey & Associates, a public service and consulting firm, based in Austin, Tex., that provides school finance and accountability analysis. His father, a retired school principal, now serves on the boards of San Antonio’s Communities in Schools and the San Antonio Independent School District Foundation.
The couple met in January 2015 while both were working in Representative Castro’s office.
