Juliet Elizabeth Dickey and Michael Abbott Holland were married Sept. 29 at the Horace Williams House, a historic residence in Chapel Hill, N.C. The Rev. John P. Holland Jr., a Baptist minister and a brother of the groom, performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Holland, 46, produces concerts and other events as a director in the marketing department of Pandora Media, the internet radio company; her office is in New York. She graduated from the University of North Carolina.
She is the daughter of Lt. Col. John W. Dickey Jr. of Greensboro N.C. and the late Jean Bouldin Dickey. The bride’s father retired from the United States Air Force, having served on the planning staff for the Middle East at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, S.C. He was later a history, religion and social studies teacher at New Garden Friends School, a Quaker school in Greensboro. Her mother was a teacher’s assistant at Southwest Guilford Elementary School in High Point, N.C.
Mr. Holland, 49, is a compliance programs manager in the division that provides hosting services for customer data at SAS Institute, an analytics company in Cary, N.C. He is also a Piedmont blues musician who performs as part of the Holland Brothers. He graduated from Clemson University and is now a candidate for an M.B.A. at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, N.C.
He is a son of Betty Jo Abbott Holland and Mr. Holland of Matthews, N.C. The groom’s father retired as a vice president for marketing at Duke Power, the electric utility in Charlotte, N.C.
The couple were both part of the music scene in Chapel Hill in 1993, when they met at a party. She was working as an intern at Mammoth/Atlantic Records, which was then in Carrboro, N.C., and he was in a band, Jennyanykind, with another brother, Mark Holland. Years later, in 2016, they reconnected at another party, also in Chapel Hill, and a spark between them was ignited when they shared a hug that night. “I just can’t describe it,” she said. “It was very disruptive, it rattled me, I guess. Then I thought about him a lot.”
The groom’s previous marriage ended in divorce.
