Blair Emily Miller and Benjamin Wilson Patton were married Sept. 15 at Green Meadow Farms, an organic vegetable and flower farm in South Hamilton, Mass. The Rev. Michael Rudzena, who was ordained as a Southern Baptist minister, officiated at a nondenominational ceremony.
The bride, who is 38 and works in New York, invests in socially responsible companies, including Andela, a company that trains technology developers in Africa, and Ready Responders, a company which has created an on-demand emergency home-care network. She is also trustee of the Africa Center, and a senior fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. She graduated from the University of Virginia and received an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan.
She is a daughter of June E. Miller of Annapolis, Md., and Jeffrey Miller of Brighton, Mich. The bride’s father retired as a corporate executive in human resources at Dominos in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was a Navy lieutenant from 1970-73. Her mother, retired in 1993 as an Army colonel. She was last stationed at Group Headquarters, Grand Rapids Mich., as the chief nurse in the 334th medical group.
The groom, 53, is a New York-based filmmaker and author, and the founder of the Patton Veterans Project, a nonprofit that uses filmmaking as a therapeutic intervention for veterans and military families coping with service related stress and transition. He graduated from Georgetown and received a Master of Arts in developmental psychology from Columbia.
He is a son of Joanne Holbrook Patton of Topsfield, Mass., and the late Major General George S. Patton. The groom’s mother founded Green Meadow Farms. His father was a highly decorated combat veteran having served in both the Korea and Vietnam conflicts.
The groom’s grandfather was General George S. Patton Jr., who commanded the Third Army in Europe during World War II.
The couple were set up on a blind date in New York in September 2016.
The groom’s first two marriages ended in divorce.
