Hart Huguet Hagerty and Dr. John McElmurray Wrangle were married Oct. 27 in Charleston, S.C. The Rev. Phillip C. Bryant performed the ceremony at the French Huguenot Church, where he is the pastor.
Mrs. Wrangle, 31, is a jewelry designer whose business, Hart, is in Charleston. She graduated from Vanderbilt.
She is a daughter of Barbara G.S. Hagerty and Dr. Richard C. Hagerty of Charleston. The bride’s father, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, retired as a partner in Charleston Plastic Surgery. Her mother is a writer whose recent work includes “Twinzilla” (Word Works, 2013) and other books of poetry, and is also a director of the Spoleto Festival USA, the performing arts event in Charleston.
Dr. Wrangle, 43, is an assistant professor of medicine and a physician-scientist at the Hollings Cancer Center of the Medical University of South Carolina, which is in Charleston and where his research focuses on developing novel immunotherapy strategies for lung cancer. He is also the chief medical officer of Precision Genetics, a company in Greenville, S.C., that specializes in pharmacogenetic testing. He graduated from Tufts and received both a medical degree and a master’s degree, in public health, from Tulane.
He is a son of Philip C. Wrangle of Cashiers, N.C., and the late Mary Louise Close Wrangle. The groom’s mother owned the Sterling Company, an estate silver sales business in Cashiers. His father retired as a lawyer in Houston for Sonat, an oil and gas company.
The couple met in 2014 at a book party in Charleston, and though they went on several dates, she was planning to move to New York and so nothing came of the relationship. In 2017, after she had returned to Charleston, a get-together on the pretext of talking about their respective businesses turned out to be the prelude to their romance. “We went and had wine, and it ended up being a seven-hour date,” she said. “There had always been a huge mutual admiration and respect for each other, but I think we had to be in the same spot for the romance to blossom.”
