Off the market: Weddings and engagements from the Shiny Sheet's 2023-24 pages
In today’s world, marriage is fungible. Why marry when you can live together?
But there are always, thankfully, the true believers, the ones who meet, fall in love, and marry, regardless of changing times and mores. They love love.
And we love them because really, without them, how would we fill our end-of-season weddings page?
Here, the weddings and engagements published this past season.
COUPLE: Tinsley Mortimer and Robert Bovard
WEDDING: Nov. 11
PLACE: Private club in Palm Beach
RECEPTION: Private club in Palm Beach
DRESS: Monique Lhuillier tulle gown
LIVING IN: Augusta, Georgia
FACTOID: The emerald accents throughout the decor and wedding party attire were in tribute to the May birthday of the groom's late wife, who died of a brain tumor in 2021
COUPLE: Corinne Frost Schoeller and Peter Charles Hein Jr.
WEDDING: Sept. 23
PLACE: St. James' Church in New York
RECEPTION: University Club
DRESS: The bride wore a Belgium silk lace veil worn by brides in her mother’s family for nearly 200 years
HONEYMOON: Turkey
LIVING IN: New York
FACTOID: After college, the bride competed as a member of the world champion U.S. Senior National Team/U.S. Rowing.
COUPLE: Shannon McNeil Walton and Daniel Peter Motley O’Donnell
WEDDING: Oct. 29
PLACE: The Brazilian Court Hotel
RECEPTION: The Brazilian Court Hotel
LIVING IN: Washington, D.C.
FACTOID: The bride is descended from a pioneer family recognized for its impact on the early- and mid-20th century development of Palm Beach.
COUPLE: Alexandra Sickles and Andrew Mack
WEDDING: Dec. 14
PLACE: The couple's Upper East Side apartment
RECEPTION: Wedding dinner at La Grenouille, then a larger reception Dec. 16 at the Union Club
LIVING IN: New York with their Great Dane, Philomena
FACTOID: The bridegroom's father is a former U.S. ambassador to Finland
COUPLE: Emerson Davis and Zachary Ailes
WEDDING: Dec. 16
PLACE: St. Edward Church, Palm Beach
RECEPTION: At the Palm Beach home of the bridegroom's mother, Elizabeth.
HONEYMOON: Florida Keys
LIVING IN: Hillsdale, Michigan, until the bridegroom receives his graduate degree, after which they intend to settle "somewhere out West"
FACTOID: The ceremony consecrated the couple's October elopement in Warren, Ohio, the hometown of the bridegroom's late father, Fox News founder Roger Ailes.
COUPLE: Aisa Sayama and Alec Zisson
WEDDING: Feb. 12, 2023
PLACE: Tokyo
LIVING IN: Tokyo, where he is a China credit analyst at BankAmerica and she is studying public policy at the University of Tokyo
FACTOID: The bride is an accomplished pianist
ENGAGEMENTS
COUPLE: Bonnie Anne Masters and David Tennant Bryan Maxey
RESIDENCES: She lives in New York; he lives in New York and Palm Beach
WEDDING DATE: June 29 at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
FACTOID: The engagement took place on Easter Sunday 2023 in the Palm Beach garden of his maternal grandmother, Kit Pannill.
COUPLE: Whitney Lovell Schott and Harrison Tyler Tananbaum
RESIDENCES: He, Palm Beach and New York; she, Palm Beach and Bedford, New York,
CAREERS: She is an arts writer; he is the managing partner and co-founder of a real estate investment firm.
WEDDING DATE: Next year in Palm Beach
FACTOID: She earned a master’s degree in Modern & Contemporary Art.
COUPLE: Shannon Cooney Boyles and John “Jack” Otley Middlebrooks
RESIDENCES: Palm Beach
CAREERS: She works in executive operations at a financial technology company; he is a senior director at a management consulting firm.
WEDDING DATE: January 2024 at St. Edward Church
FACTOID: The future bride is a third-generation Palm Beacher.
COUPLE: Anna Marsh and James Zisson
RESIDENCES: She, London and Toronto; he, Palm Beach and aboard his boat
CAREERS: She, retired professional model and now a certified barre instructor, he, retired investment management consultant.
WEDDING DATE: Sometime this summer
FACTOID: After graduating from Brown, he was an executive in the music business
COUPLE: Katherine Ann Johnson and George H. Shepherd
RESIDENCES: Both of New York
WEDDING DATE: June 2025 in Watch Hill
FACTOID: The couple met on the junior committee of the Mayflower Society Ball
This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: 2023-24 Season Palm Beach weddings and engagements
