Elizabeth Anne Kolbe and Daniel Fife Hardcastle were married May 18 at the Line Hotel in Washington. Dr. Jeffrey L. Levin, a friend of the couple, received temporary authorization from the District of Columbia to officiate.
The bride, 33, is a senior associate specializing in health care law in the Washington offices of Sidley Austin, the Chicago-based law firm. She graduated cum laude from Harvard. Ms. Kolbe, who was partially paralyzed in a car accident at age 14, competed in the 2008 Beijing Paralympics for Team U.S.A., and served as president of the National Association of Law Students with Disabilities.
She is a daughter of Cynthia Ann Barnes Kolbe and John E. Kolbe of Martinsburg, W.Va. The bride’s father retired as a fourth-grade teacher at Windsor Hill Arts Infused Elementary School in North Charleston, S.C. Her mother is the author of “Struggling With Serendipity,” (Eliezer Tristan, 2019), a memoir that chronicles the depression and gratitude she and her family experienced in the years following the bride’s injury.
The groom, 34, is the founder of AddUP, a housing-affordability website that helps homeowners add apartment units to their homes. He previously worked as an organizer and manager of political campaigns, including President Barack Obama’s 2012 operation in Florida and Tammy Duckworth’s election to the Senate from Illinois in 2016. He graduated cum laude from the University of Florida and received a law degree from George Washington University.
He is the son of Teresa Z. Fife and Daniel Benjamin Hardcastle of Oklahoma City. The groom’s father is the vice president of university relations at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla. His mother retired as a nonprofit administrator who specialized in substance-abuse prevention and child development.
The couple met through the dating app Hinge in 2014.
