Philippa Lloyd Biddle and Benjamin Quittner Davidson were married June 1 at Christ Episcopal Church in Dover, Del. The Rev. Charles Weiss, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony.
The bride, who is 26 and known as Pippa, is a writer based in Germantown, N.Y. Her essays and articles have been published by The Atlantic, Guernica and the BBC. She is also working on a first book, an exposé and analysis of volunteer tourism as a form of contemporary colonialism, to be published next year by University of Nebraska Press. She graduated magna cum laude from Columbia.
She is a daughter of Philippa Ridgely Horsey Biddle and Edward Elliot Biddle of Katonah, N.Y. The bride’s father is the chief financial officer at the Masters School, a private day and boarding school in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Her mother is a women’s lacrosse and field hockey coach for the town of Bedford, N.Y., and is in charge of its recreation program.
The bride is a maternal great-granddaughter of Louise de Vilmorin, the French poet, novelist, socialite and heir to the Vilmorin seed fortune.
The groom, 27, is the owner of Quittner Antiques, an antique store and furniture restoration studio in Germantown. He graduated from Bennington College in Bennington, Vt.
He is the son of Amy Clark Davidson and J. Matthew Davidson of Germantown. The groom’s mother is a former art teacher at St. Bernard’s School in New York. His father is special assistant to the parks commissioner of New York.
The groom is the great-grandson of Jacob M. Kaplan, former president of the Welch Grape Juice Company and founder of the J. M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based philanthropic fund focused on preservation, development and innovation in the arts. He is also the great-grandson of George Abbott, the Broadway producer and playwright whose credits include “The Pajama Game” and “Damn Yankees.”
The bride and groom met as children at Camp Treetops, a seven-week sleep-away camp in the Adirondack Mountains of New York.
