Katharine de Lancey Anawalt and Harrison Piecuch Gish are to be married Sept. 1 at Houston Hall, an events space in New York. David O’Grady, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life Minister for the event, is to officiate.
The bride, 35, is a speech-language pathologist in private practice in Los Angeles who specializes in working with people with autism. She graduated from Oberlin College and received a master’s degree, with distinction, in communication disorders and sciences from California State University, Northridge.
She is a daughter of Sasha Anawalt and William B. Anawalt of Pasadena, Calif. The bride’s father owns a lumber company in Montrose, Calif., that bears his name. Her mother is a professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. She is also the author of “The Joffrey Ballet: Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company” (Scribner, 1996).
The groom, 37, is a metadata analyst and editor at Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City, Calif. He also graduated from Oberlin with high honors and received a master’s degree in cinema and media studies from the University of California in Los Angeles, where he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in that subject.
He is a son of Alfreda Piecuch and Herbert Gish of Newton, Mass. The groom’s father is a principal scientist and mathematician at BBN Technologies, a research and development company in Cambridge, Mass. His mother is retired from teaching in the Brookline Early Education Program in Brookline, Mass.
The couple met in Los Angeles in January 2017 through a mutual college friend.
