Katharine Anne Verville and Edward Stevens Gottfried were married Sept. 15. The Very Rev. Timothy E. Kimbrough performed the ceremony at Christ Episcopal Church Cathedral in Nashville.
The bride and groom both graduated, she cum laude, from Bowdoin College in Maine, where they met.
Ms. Verville, 29, is the vice president, in New York, of the Levinson Group, a strategic communications firm.
She is a daughter of Sarah Lee Addington Verville of Falmouth, Me., and Michael C. Verville of Brunswick, Me. The bride’s father is a physician assistant at Optimal Health and Performance, a functional medicine practice in Portland, Me., that specializes in nutrition and wellness. The bride’s mother, a lawyer, retired in June as a regulatory and legal consultant for hydroelectric power projects in the Augusta, Me., office of TRC, an engineering, environmental consulting and construction management firm. The bride’s stepmother, Patricia A. Murtagh, is the chief executive of the American Red Cross of Maine.
The bride is a great-great-granddaughter of Robert Elkington Wood, who was the president and then chairman of Sears, Roebuck and Company, overseeing the company’s transition from catalog sales to retail stores, and also its diversification into other businesses, including the creation of the Allstate Insurance Company.
Mr. Gottfried, also 29, is a product manager for voice transcription technology in the financial technology unit of Bloomberg, the business news and information provider in New York. He is also a trustee of the Quaker Hill Foundation, a family trust in North Andover, Mass., that supports the charitable endeavors of the descendants of Edith and John Peters Stevens II.
He is a son of Mary Comfort Stevens and Roy K. Gottfried of Nashville. The groom’s father retired in May as a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. The groom’s mother is a senior assistant director for undergraduate admissions at Vanderbilt.
