CAITLIN ELIZABETH PORTER QUINN BRADFORD ROBERT ARTHUR DUNN
The Cathedral of St. Andrew was the setting at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, for the marriage of Caitlin Elizabeth Porter Quinn and Bradford Robert Arthur Dunn. Monsignor Lawrence Frederick, rector at Catholic High School for Boys, officiated.
Ginger and Dr. Brian Dennis Quinn of Little Rock are the parents of the bride. Her grandparents are Jane and the late Edward Quinn of Raleigh, N.C., and the late Louise and David Garrett of Baton Rouge.
The groom is the son of Ginny and Bob Dunn of Charlotte, N.C. His grandparents are the late Elizabeth and Neale Riesner of Baltimore and the late Dreama and Robert Dunn of Raleigh.
Nuptial music was by organist Beau Baldwin and soloist Hope Sharp.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a strapless silk Mikado ballgown with a sculpted neckline and natural waistline embellished with a ribbon. Over her gown she wore an off-the-shoulder custom Alencon lace bolero. She carried a white, ivory and soft green cascade of garden roses, anemones, hydrangeas and freesia.
Virginia deBlanc Quinn of Nashville, Tenn., was her sister’s maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Mallory Abate of St. Louis; Mary Duelks of Dallas; Katherine Gutierrez of Arlington, Va.; Christina Herald of Atlanta; Annabel Riordan of San Francisco; Lindsey Thompson of Little Rock; and Eleanor Wong of Washington. They wore gowns with black lux-chiffon skirts with palomino-colored lace bodices and matching grosgrain ribbon belts. They carried clutch bouquets of black-eye anemones, garden roses, lisianthus and freesia.
Best man was Christopher James Torino of New York. Groomsmen were Christopher Burd and Mark John Xavier Gooding, both of Washington; Tyler Eure of Carrboro, N.C.; Christopher Gilpin and Erik Risendal, both of New York; and Garrett Quinn of Chicago, brother of the bride.
Guests were seated by Stuart Greenberg of Baltimore and Andrew Wong of Washington.
A seated dinner reception was held at The Country Club of Little Rock. Guest tables in the ballroom held arrangements of hydrangeas, garden roses, freesia, hybrid delphinium and jasmine vine along with gold candle-stands in different heights.
The bride has a bachelor’s degree in human and organizational development and a master’s degree in leadership, policy and organizational development, both from Vanderbilt University, where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta, recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Academic Achievement and Service Award and president of the Vanderbilt Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management. She is a federal human capital manager with Deloitte Consulting LLP in Washington.
The groom has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Wake Forest University, where he was a member of Omicron Delta Epsilon and Kappa Sigma. He has a master’s degree in international affairs from George Washington University and is a business development manager with K&M Advisers.
After a wedding trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the couple will live in Washington.