katrina + taylor – the wedding day

This was the first of two weekend weddings in a row for us up in Rhode Island. Somehow the Ocean State was channeling me.

This weekend was Katrina + Taylor’s wedding in the absolutely charming area known as Watch Hill. Their ceremony at the Watch Hill Chapel and their reception at the Misquamicut Club were wonderfully old world. Charm and elegant simplicity were the order of the day and were expertly coordinated by Jen Brinton. Katrina selected a wonderfully diaphanous Vera Wang that looked just great flowing in the ocean breeze.

Here Katrina pins the boutonniere on her dad, James Courter.

Katrina and Taylor rode off from the ceremony in the family’s sweet fire-engine red convertible Ford roadster. (I’m guessing it’s about a 1929 or so).

What I didn’t know was that Katrina and Taylor had originally met as two-year-olds at an Election Night dinner the evening Katrina’s father had won his 1982 run for Congress. Of course, Taylor too comes from a long lineage of political leadership. His great-grandfather was Governor of New York from 1915-1918 and his mother, Christie Todd-Whitman was Governor of New Jersey from 1994-2001.

For those of you who missed Katrina and Taylor’s big writeup in The New York Times… check it out.