The bride is the daughter of Susan Webber Wright Carter and Harold Breckinridge Carter of Little Rock and the late Robert Ross Wright III. Her grandparents are the late Betty and Thomas Edward Webber III of Texarkana and the late Alma and Robert Ross Wright Jr. of Lewisville.
Parents of the bridegroom are Helen and Richard Simon Cleary of Louisville, Ky. His grandparents are Helen White Curtin and the late William Joseph Curtin of Potomac, Md., and Patricia Hanley Cleary and the late Timothy Finbar Cleary of Bethesda, Md.
The high altar was decorated with magnolia leaves and flowers. Music was by organist Warren Beau Baldwin, trumpeter Larry Jones and cantor Logan Phillips.
The bride, escorted by her brother Robert Ross Wright IV of Oklahoma City, wore an ivory Mikado silk trumpet gown and carried a bouquet of garden roses, dusty miller, freesia and phlox in shades of white, champagne, peach, coral and silver gray.
Serving as maid of honor was Catherine Danielle Robertson of Brooklyn, N.Y. Bridesmaids were Brittany Baxter of Portland, Ore.; Alexandra Jones of Washington; Katherine McDonald of Tulsa; Meredith Hoberock of Kansas City, Mo.; Molly Shepherd of El Dorado; Bethany Marshall of Rogers; Colleen Jayroe of Columbia, Mo.; and Megan McCain and Stephanie Maxwell, both of Little Rock. They wore light teal chiffon gowns and carried bouquets similar to the bride's.
Also attending the bride were nieces Alison Jedlicka and Lauren Wallace, both of Oklahoma City, and Sarah Alexander of Colorado Springs, Colo. Flower girls were Josie Jedlicka and Khloe Wallace, both of Oklahoma City and nieces of the bride; and Caroline Connell of Chevy Chase, Md., and Helen Curtin of Menlo Park, Calif., both cousins of the bridegroom. Ring bearers were John Connell of Chevy Chase, cousin of the bridegroom, and Alexander Williamson of Burbank, Calif., cousin of the bride.
Thomas Gaughan Cleary of San Francisco was his brother's best man. Groomsmen were Andrew Allen and William Underwood, both of Atlanta; Frank Barlow of Louisville; Tyler Benedict of Chicago; Scott Centorino of New Orleans; David Imamura, Matthew Swift and Browning VanMeter Jr., all of New York; Taylor Lawch of Washington; and Wesley O'Dell of Lexington, Va. Guests were seated by Stephen Carr of Atlanta; Andrew Green of Birmingham, Ala.; Shiva Logarajah of El Dorado; Jacob Weinstein of Memphis; and Eric Wind of Indian Harbour Beach, Fla.
After the ceremony, a reception was held at the Country Club of Little Rock. Guest tables were decorated with towering vases of garden roses, lisianthus, hydrangeas and eucalyptus. Music was by The Party Jammers of Memphis.
The bride graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in politics from Washington and Lee University, and magna cum laude with a law degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville. She is a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
The bridegroom graduated summa cum laude with bachelor's degrees in politics and French from Washington and Lee. He graduated with a master's degree in international relations from Cambridge University in England and with a law degree from Columbia Law School. He is a lawyer at Williams & Connolly LLP.
The couple will live in Washington and plan a November wedding trip to Bermuda.
High Profile on 09/10/2017