Kathryn Anne Townsend and Joseph Nicholas Kashurba were married Oct. 24 at a magistrate office in Pittsburgh. Eugene Ricciardi, a judge of the Allegheny County magisterial district in Pennsylvania, officiated.
On Oct. 27, the couple took part in a symbolic ceremony at Omni Bedford Springs Resort in Bedford, Pa. Daniel Walker, a friend of the couple, led the ceremony.
The bride, who is 29 and works in Pittsburgh, is a vice president and a suspicious activity reporting specialist at the Bank of New York Mellon. She graduated from George Washington University and received a master’s degree, with merit, in cultural heritage studies from the University of College London.
She is the daughter of Candice Marie Douglas and William Lee Townsend of North Huntingdon, Pa. The bride’s father retired as an employee in the banquet department of the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh. Her mother retired as a food service director at Monongahela Valley Hospital in Monongahela, Pa.
The groom, also 29, owns a web design and online marketing agency in Pittsburgh that bears his name. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh.
He is a son of Mary T. Kashurba of Norristown, Pa., and Dr. Glenn J. Kashurba of Somerset, Pa. The groom’s mother serves as the chief medical officer at Discover Optimal Healthcare, a chiropractic clinic in Philadelphia. His father, a psychiatrist, has a child and adolescent psychiatry practice in Somerset, Pa. Dr. Kashurba guided the families of Flight 93 victims to the crash site in the days following Sept. 11, 2001. He subsequently chronicled his experiences and those of local residents in his book, “Courage After the Crash” (Saj Publishing, 2002).
The couple met on Match.com in September 2012.
