Natalie Jane Knight and Matthew Brandon Ellison are to be married Jan. 19 at the Cedar Room in Charleston, S.C. Patrick Michael Duffy, a retired judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, for whom the bride clerked from 2017-18, is to officiate.
The bride and groom, both 31, each work in Washington for Democratic members of the House of Representatives, she as legislative counsel for Representative Lucy McBath of Georgia and he as deputy policy director for Representative James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the House majority whip.
The bride graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, from which she also received a law degree and a master’s degree in public policy. She is a daughter of Jane E. Knight and Randall J. Knight of Redlands, Calif. The bride’s father, who is retired, was a pharmacist at multiple Walgreens locations in the Inland Empire and at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif. Her mother is a pharmacist at Redlands Community Hospital in Redlands.
The groom graduated magna cum laude from Yale and received a law degree, magna cum laude, from Georgetown. He is the son of Julie L. Ellison and Dr. David M. Ellison of Charleston. The groom’s mother is the principal of the lower school at Porter-Gaud School, a private school in Charleston. His father is an oncologist and hematologist in private practice in Charleston.
The couple met through a mutual friend in the summer of 2013 at Brass Monkey, a since-closed bar in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington.
