Lindsay Catherine Church and Andrew Mark Ellis were married Jan. 19 at the Stables at Foxhall Resort in Douglasville, Ga. The Rev. Dee Stone, a minister affiliated with Peachtree Christian Church in Atlanta, officiated.
The bride and groom met at Harvard, from which each received a law degree.
Mrs. Ellis, 27, is an intellectual property associate at the Atlanta law firm Alston & Bird. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of South Carolina Honors College. In 2014, through a human rights fellowship from Harvard Law School, she worked at the Media Legal Defense Initiative in London. She is on the board of VOX Teen Communications, an uncensored publishing platform for teenagers, in Atlanta.
She is a daughter of Suzanne P. Church and Donald C. Church of Fleming Island, Fla. The bride’s father retired as a master chief in the United States Navy at Naval Air Station Jacksonville. He more recently retired as a retirement relationship manager in the Jacksonville, Fla., office of Fidelity Investments, a brokerage firm. He is the treasurer on the board of AMIkids-Clay County, in Green Cove Springs, Fla., a provider of programs and services to at-risk youth in the area. Her mother is a social worker at three elementary schools and a high school in the Clay County School District in Florida, for which she is also a coordinator of Project Reach, the youth homelessness program there.
Mr. Ellis, 28, is a litigation associate in the Atlanta office of the law firm Jones Day. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Missouri with two degrees, one in economics and the other in political science.
He is a son of Anne W. Ellis and Mark G. Ellis of St. Joseph, Mo. The groom’s mother is a registered nurse at Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph-Medical Center there. His father is a senior programmer in information technology services at Missouri Western State University, also in St. Joseph.
