Catherine Elizabeth Roosevelt and Seán Vincent McCluskey were married Jan. 19 at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Manhattan. The Rev. Jason Smith, a Roman Catholic priest, led the ceremony.
Mrs. Roosevelt McCluskey, 33, is the assistant executive director at the Cornelia Connelly Center in New York, an education nonprofit organization serving girls at risk in New York City. She graduated from the University of Michigan, from which she also received a master’s degree in higher education administration.
She is the daughter of Vickie J. Roosevelt of West Bloomfield, Mich., and the late Louis C. Roosevelt. The bride’s mother is a senior financial and business analyst in the quality department at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, previously the University of Michigan Health System. The bride’s father was an account executive of commercial insurance at Kemner Iott Benz, an insurance firm in Ann Arbor.
Mr. McCluskey, also 33, is a music teacher at Hebrew Language Academy Charter School in Mill Basin, Brooklyn, and a jazz pianist. In October, he performed with an alto saxophone player at Row House, a restaurant in Harlem. The groom graduated from Northwestern, and received a master’s degree in education from Hunter College through the Lincoln Center Scholars Program.
He is the son of Christine E. McCluskey and James F. McCluskey of Jefferson, Mass. The groom’s mother is the owner of Eagle Lake Soap, an online artisanal soap maker, in Jefferson. She retired as a registered nurse involved in end-of-life-care planning at Commonwealth Medicine, the consulting arm of UMass Medical School in Shrewsbury, Mass. His father is a music teacher at St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury.
The couple met in 2014 at a social for young professionals held each week after Mass at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. Four months later, as Ms. Roosevelt was leaving church after Easter Vigil Mass, Mr. McCluskey winked at her from one of the pews, which immediately made her blush. A few minutes later when they spoke in the church courtyard, she invited him to an Easter brunch she had organized for friends the next day. Soon they began dating.
