Kaytlin Helen Bailey and Archie Valejo Jones III were married Oct. 26 in Mocksville, N.C. The Rev. Archie Jones Sr., a Baptist minister and the paternal grandfather of the groom, performed the ceremony, with Leah Piper, a friend of the couple, taking part at Brantley Farms, an organic beef farm owned by the groom’s family.
The bride, 33, works in New York as the director of communications for Decriminalize Sex Work, a national advocacy organization that seeks to end the prohibition of prostitution in the United States. She is also a stand-up comic and writer in New York. She graduated from the College of Charleston in South Carolina.
She is the daughter of Donna Mayer Bailey and Joseph E. Bailey Jr. of Raleigh, N.C. The bride’s father served in the Army from 1965-95, and was last stationed at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina. He was a master aviator with the rank of chief warrant officer 4, was awarded a combat infantry badge during the Vietnam War with the 173rd Airborne Brigade and won the Distinguished Flying Cross during a second tour in Vietnam. His last combat deployment was in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The bride’s mother is an interior designer based in Raleigh.
The groom, who is 36 and known as Tre, is the head of marketing at Dotdah, a digital publishing company in New York. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received an M.B.A. from N.Y.U.
He is a son of Teresa Atkins Jones and Mr. Jones Jr. of Raleigh. The groom’s mother is the project coordinator for the Roma Partnership of Baptists on Mission, an nonprofit organization based in Raleigh that helps connect funds and support Baptist missionaries with the Roma population in Eastern Europe. His father is the Latin American Regional Manager at the Aeroglide Corporation, a company based in Raleigh that makes industrial drying and cooling equipment.
The couple met in 2001 as members of the debate team at William G. Enloe High School in Raleigh.
The groom’s first marriage ended in divorce.
