Gail Joan Cornell and Thomas Edward Harritt were married Sept. 1 at the First Congregational Church in Hopkinton, N.H. The Rev. Dr. Gordon L. Crouch performed the ceremony.
Ms. Cornell, 68, is an architectural historian. She is a lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and a member of the adjunct faculty at the N.Y.U. School of Professional Studies, and also is a lecturer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Smithsonian Institution, both in Washington. She graduated from Thomas More College in Edgewood, Ky., and received a master’s degree in architectural history and theory from Harvard.
She is the daughter of the late LaVonne A. Schuerman, who lived in Crestview Hills, Ky., and the late John H. Schuerman, who lived in Highland Heights, Ky. The bride’s father retired as an independent tax accountant and bookkeeper in Highland Heights. Her mother was a pianist and a singer who performed in the Cincinnati area.
Mr. Harritt, 67, retired as a captain for United Airlines, flying out of Newark, and also retired from the United States Air Force, having attained the rank of lieutenant colonel and served with the 104th fighter squadron and at the Warfield Air National Guard Base in Middle River, Md. He graduated from Florida State University.
He is a son of the late Virginia E. Harritt and the late Thomas H. Harritt, who lived in Jacksonville, Fla. The groom’s mother was a country and blue grass concert promoter and talent agent in Jacksonville Beach, Fla. His father retired from the United States Navy as a senior chief petty officer in aviation maintenance at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, and then became a civilian computer systems analyst, also in Jacksonville, for the Navy.
The couple met in 2014 through Match.com, and had their first date at a Thai restaurant in New York.
The bride’s previous marriage ended in divorce, as did the groom’s two previous marriages.
