Lucy Blond Melcher and John Martin Coady III were married April 6 at the InterContinental Hotel Washington — the Wharf. Jordan L. Bookey, a cousin of the bride who became authorized as a temporary officiant by the District of Columbia Marriage Bureau for the occasion, officiated incorporating Jewish elements.
Mrs. Coady, 36, is a director of the No Kid Hungry Campaign at Share Our Strength, a nonprofit organization working to end childhood hunger, in Washington. She graduated cum laude from American University and received a master’s degree in public policy from Duke.
She is a daughter of Barbara B. Melcher and Richard A. Melcher of Chicago. The bride’s father is a founding partner at Melcher & Tucker Consultants, a marketing and communications firm in Chicago. He is on the board of Mother Jones, a nonprofit investigative news organization in San Francisco. Her mother is an interior designer there. Until 2018, she was a founding board member of Impact Grants Chicago, a women’s volunteer collective that supports nonprofit groups in Chicago.
Mr. Coady, 37, is the national development director of For Our Future, a political action committee in Washington focusing on community organizing for underrepresented voters. He graduated cum laude from Stonehill College in Easton, Mass., and received a master’s degree in political science from Suffolk University in Boston.
He is a son of Patricia Coady of Reading, Mass., and the late Mr. Coady Jr. The groom’s mother retired as a radiologic technologist at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Mass. His father worked in Chelsea, Mass., as a buyer for the Proler International Corporation, a company based in Houston, involved in processing, recycling, and selling ferrous and other scrap metals.
The couple were introduced in August 2016 through the dating app Bumble, and a few days later they met at a wine bar in Washington. After realizing they had early morning flights out of Washington National Airport that Saturday, they decided to squeeze in a second date, which turned out to be a quick chat before they went through security at 7 a.m. and caught different flights.
