Catherine Elizabeth Doyle-Capitman and Ryan William Lamb were married Sept. 8 at Wing’s Castle, an inn in Millbrook, N.Y. R. Wren Abrams, the town justice of Dover, N.Y., officiated. Steven C. Mannion, a federal magistrate judge in New Jersey for whom the groom was previously a law clerk, performed the ceremony.
Dr. Doyle-Capitman, 31, is a visiting scholar at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington. She graduated cum laude from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., and received a master’s degree in environmental science from Yale and a Ph.D. in natural resources from Cornell.
The bride is the daughter of Margaret A. Doyle and Andrew W. Capitman of New York. Her father is a managing director of Duff & Phelps, a corporate finance advisory firm in New York. In the 1970s and 1980s, the bride’s paternal grandmother, Barbara Baer Capitman, along with her father and mother, led efforts to preserve Art Deco buildings in the Miami Beach Architectural District. The bride’s mother is a historic preservationist who designed Cafe Cardozo and the Carlyle Grill, two restaurants that were in Miami Beach.
Mr. Lamb, 37, works in Washington as an energy and restructuring attorney for the Interior Department. He graduated from Vassar and received a law degree from Rutgers.
He is a son of Deborah Cater of Eugene, Ore. and the late Michael V. Lamb. The groom is a stepson of Mark T. Cater. The groom’s mother and stepfather work at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center in Springfield, Ore., she as a psychiatric registered nurse and he as an intensive care clinical pharmacist.
The couple met in 2001 on the Vassar campus, where the bride was dropping off her brother for his first year of college. The groom, then a student there and the dormitory president, was helping freshmen move into their rooms.
