Gracia Taylor Willis and Andrew James McLaughlin were married Sept. 7. Sarah C. Seelye, who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated at the Tokeneke Club, a beach club in Darien.
The bride and groom met at Bucknell, from which each graduated.
Mrs. McLaughlin, 28, is known as Taylor. She is a social media and digital marketing consultant in Manhattan, and is to begin later this month as the communications and marketing manager at SecondMuse, a consulting company in Brooklyn.
She is the daughter of Lois Cross Willis and Gregory T. Willis of Darien. The bride’s father is the market leader for the telecommunications, media and entertainment industries at IBM; he works in the company’s Manhattan office. Her mother is an interior designer in Darien and is the president of the Marion Moore Foundation, a philanthropic organization in Jupiter, Fla., named for the bride’s great-grandmother; the bride is a junior member of the board.
The bride is a descendant of John Winthrop, a longtime governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The bride is also a direct descendant of Pocahontas.
The bride is also a great-great-granddaughter of John Walter Cross, who, with his brother, was a founder of Cross & Cross, the architectural firm that designed the RCA Victor building on Lexington Avenue, the Tiffany & Company’s building on Fifth Avenue and other structures of New York City.
Mr. McLaughlin, 29, is an analyst at Prana Capital Management, a hedge fund in Greenwich, Conn. He is also a chartered financial analyst.
He is a son of Susan Zanes McLaughlin and Michael B. McLaughlin of Charlotte, N.C. The groom’s mother is an event planner at Susan Cassidy Events in New York and is also a volunteer driver for Rescue Transport USA, an organization that brings dogs and cats from shelters in the South to rescue organizations in the Northeast and Canada. His father is a regional director in the Charlotte office of Dimensional Fund Advisors, an investment management company.
