Katherine Brannen Whitman and Frank Craig Broomell Jr. were married Sept. 29. The Rev. Dr. W. Thomas Guerry, a Baptist minister, performed the ceremony at the French Huguenot Church in Charleston, S.C.
Mrs. Broomell, 33, is a program examiner in the national security division at the Office of Management and Budget in Washington. She graduated from the United States Naval Academy, where she was a women’s All-American in intercollegiate sailing. From 2007 to 2013, she was in the Navy, attaining the rank of lieutenant, and serving as surface warfare officer aboard the U.S.S. Rushmore, which sails out of San Diego, and as an admiral’s aide at the Pentagon. She received an M.B.A. from George Washington University.
She is the daughter of Frances Peeples Whitman of Wadmalaw Island, S.C., and William W. Whitman of Wellfleet, Mass. The bride’s father owns and manages a rental cottage on the Chequessett Bluff in Wellfleet, and is also a playwright whose work “Walt: The Life and Times of Walt Whitman,” was performed in 2013 at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro, N.C. Her mother is a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at Roper Hospital in Charleston.
Mr. Broomell, 31, is a third-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the editor in chief of the law review. He graduated from George Washington University, and received a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard. From 2009 to 2013, he served in the United States Marine Corps, attaining the rank of first lieutenant and serving as an intelligence officer at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego.
He is a son of Annamarie Broomell and Mr. Broomell of Sicklerville, N.J. The groom’s mother is the executive director for information technology at St. Augustine Preparatory School in Richland, N.J. His father is a truck driver, based in Philadelphia, for the United Parcel Service.
The couple met in 2015 at a mutual friend’s birthday celebration in Washington.
