MARY OLIVE MURPHY KELLER JOHN CALHOUN STEPHENS
Mary Olive Murphy Keller became the bride of John Calhoun Stephens at 5 p.m. Saturday, July 15, in Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. Officiating were the father of the bride and the Rev. J. Russell Snapp.
Parents of the bride are Julie and the Very Rev. Christoph Keller III of Little Rock. Her grandparents are the late Sue Sullivan Honeycutt, the late Dr. Thomas Honeycutt and the late Caroline “Polly” and Right Rev. Christoph Keller Jr.
The bridegroom is the son of Harriet and Warren Amerine Stephens of Little Rock and the grandson of the late Paula and John Pierce Calhoun, the late Mary Amerine Stephens and the late Jackson Thomas Stephens.
The high altar held arrangements of agapanthus, roses and lisianthus. Music was by violinists Kiril Laskarov and Beth Massa, violist Tatiana Kotcherguina, cellist Stephen Feldman, organists Victoria Harden and Rees Roberts and the cathedral’s choir and Ringing Society. Readers were Holly Hilburn Roblee of San Francisco and John Nathaniel Calhoun II of Charlotte, N.C., uncle of the bridegroom.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore an ivory silk-crepe sheath gown. She carried a bouquet of white lily of the valley.
Maid of honor was Laura Whitaker Stephens of New York, sister of the bridegroom. Bridesmaids were Catherine Heyward Brockinton Bartlett, Christina Isabel Lawrence, Catherine Elizabeth Joy Scott and Anne Chandler Lykes, all of New York; Anna Cornelia Bonsey of Cambridge, Mass., cousin of the bride; Laura Porter Keller, Erin Anne O’Brien and Katherine Carey Stephens, all of Little Rock; Claire Ann Lewis Matson of Philadelphia; and Caroline DeWitt Tolmie of Charlotte, N.C. They wore periwinkle-blue silk-chiffon gowns and carried bouquets of white peonies.
The father of the bridegroom and Warren Miles Amerine Stephens of Little Rock, brother of the bridegroom, served as the bridegroom’s honor attendants. Groomsmen were Samuel Collins Baber, William Arlen Cross and Thomas Christoph Keller, brother of the bride, all of Little Rock; Alexander Conner Blass of Rogers; Jesse Kyle Derham and Jeffrey Philip Morgan, both of Houston; Paul Sunwoo Lee of Newport Beach, Calif.; and Steven Frederick Meadors and William Gray Millsap, both of Dallas. Guests were seated by Clarke Reynolds Armatis of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Spencer Howell Davis and David Charles Hesselbein, both of Little Rock; and Cory Busbee Sullivan of New York.
A tented reception and seated dinner on private property owned by the bridegroom’s family was held after the wedding.
The bride has a bachelor’s degree in English from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., and is a former special events manager for Barneys New York.
The bridegroom has a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and a master’s in business administration from Columbia University, New York. He is an associate director at Stephens Europe Ltd.
The couple are living in London.