Erin McGowan Kiernan and John McKinstrey Walsh were married Nov. 10 at St. Edward Roman Catholic Church in Palm Beach, Fla. The Rev. Msgr. Thomas Klinzing performed the ceremony.
The bride, 28, is an engagement manager at Google in New York. She is also a member of the New York Steering Committee for Unicef Next Generation. She graduated from Princeton and is studying for an M.B.A. at Columbia.
She is a daughter of Mary L. Kiernan and Robert E. Kiernan III of Bronxville, N.Y. The bride’s father is the chief executive of Advanced Portfolio Management in New York.
The groom, 31, is known as Jack. He is an associate in the technology investment banking group at Citi in New York. He graduated from Brown and received an M.B.A. from N.Y.U.
He is the son of Polly Vail Walsh and Mark Walsh of Chevy Chase, Md. The groom’s mother is a venture mentor at the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Maryland, where she is also a member of the board. His father is a board member and former chairman of both the Bipartisan Partisan Policy Center in Washington and his alma mater, Union College in New York. He was previously an Obama administration appointee to head investment and innovation for the Small Business Administration.
The couple were set up by a mutual friend in San Francisco in January 2014. The friends thought they would enjoy meeting each other as they were both former college athletes (she a swimmer, he a lacrosse player) from the East Coast living in California to pursue jobs in the technology industry.
