Kahn and Edwards Wed at St. Luke’s
Courtney Matson Edwards, a daughter of Barbara Lord Edwards and James C. Edwards Jr. of East Hampton, was married here on June 11 to Matthew Powell Kahn.
Mr. Kahn is the son of Jean Horrell of Santa Rosa, Calif., and Dr. James Kahn of Healdsburg, Calif. The Very Rev. Denis Brunelle performed the ceremony at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. A reception followed at the Maidstone Club, where the bride’s late paternal grandfather, James C. Edwards, had been president.
The bride is a founding dramatic arts teacher at the Success Academy High School of the Liberal Arts in New York City. She graduated from the Westminster School in Simsbury, Conn., in 2006, and earned a bachelor’s degree in theater and government from Franklin and Marshall College, graduating cum laude in 2010.
The groom graduated magna cum laude from Bentley University in Boston and is a senior consultant with Deloitte and Touche in New York City.
The couple met at a Christmas Party at the Union League Club in New York City, where Mr. Kahn is a member. He saw her across the room “and immediately walked over and introduced himself,” they wrote. “Within minutes, he was twirling her around the room and they were the only couple on the dance floor.”
On her wedding day the bride wore an Oscar de la Renta white ball gown with a floral lace bodice, illusion neckline, and long white taffeta skirt and pale pink Manolo Blahnik heels. She carried white roses with pink peonies and was accessorized with a pearl broach that had belonged to her grandmother Barbara Hartley Lord.
She was attended by her sisters, Lorrie Edwards and Caroline Edwards, as maids of honor. Her bridesmaids were Lauren Conheeney, Emily Martin, Samantha Yates, Anna Simonds Glennon, Kiki Kazickas, and her godsister, Julia Laughlin. They wore Jennifer Yoo by BHLDN floor-length pale pink and gray dresses and carried peonies, garden roses, and green hydrangeas.
The best man was Shane Sigel. The groomsmen were Max Klietmann, Matthew Bride, Brodie Mailer-Howat, William Connell, Randy Gretz, Cameron Tomkins-Bergh, and Christopher Spinello.
Flowers at the reception were arranged in golf trophies won by her late maternal grandfather, James Couper Lord, and her late uncle, James Couper Lord Jr. There were readings by Momina Sibtain, a friend of the bride’s from Pakistan, and Autumn Kent-Hower, a friend of the groom’s from college.
The couple honeymooned in France and Italy, traveling by plane and train as they explored the two countries.
They live on 85th Street in Manhattan.