Dana Mattioli and Whitman Cornell Walker were married April 20 at Middleton Place, an events space in Charleston, S.C. R. Kirk Walker Jr., the groom’s father who became a Universal Life Minister for the occasion, officiated.
The bride, 34, is a business reporter in Manhattan mainly covering Amazon for The Wall Street Journal. She graduated cum laude from American University with degrees in journalism and in literature.
She is the daughter of Dianne P. Mattioli and Joseph Mattioli of Tottenville, Staten Island. The bride’s father is the president and the owner of Temco Tool Specialists, a distributor of equipment used for quality control in the aerospace and medical industries in South Orange, N.J. He is on the board of the Staten Island Tuna Club, a nonprofit fishing club in Great Kills, Staten Island. Her mother is the owner of Regulatory Compliance Solutions, a compliance consultancy to financial institutions, in Manhattan. She is a member of Community Board 3 on Staten Island.
The groom, 35, is the director of product at Wade & Wendy, a recruiting company that uses chatbots in job-matching, in Manhattan. He graduated from the University of North Carolina and received an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia.
He is a son of Patsi Walker and Dr. Walker of Chattanooga, Tenn. The groom’s mother was a stay-at-home parent who until the 1980s was a teacher at Oak Hill School, an elementary school in Nashville. She is on the board of two nonprofit groups in Chattanooga: Homes & Havens, which decorates homes of women coming out of a crisis situation; and Chambliss Children’s Center, a social services group for underserved children. His father is based in Chattanooga as the president of the Southern Association of Independent Schools of Norcross, Ga., a regional accrediting association for independent schools.
The couple were introduced in February 2017 through the League, a dating app.
