Snowy Proposal, Sunny Wedding

David John Cataletto and Elizabeth Catherine Marchisella of East Hampton were married on June 30 at Sacred Hearts Basilica in Southampton, with a large reception and dancing under the stars following at the Castle Barn at Nova’s Ark Project in Bridgehampton. 

Mr. Cataletto proposed in December on a snowy day in the woods at the exact spot where the two had met during a snowfall the previous year. “They knew shortly after that they would marry,” they wrote. 

The groom designed the engagement ring using heirloom diamonds; the bride designed her wedding dress. 

Mr. Cataletto is the son of Pamela and John Cataletto of East Hampton. The bride’s parents are Suzanne and Carmine Marchisella of Sag Harbor.

The Rev. Michael A. Vetrano officiated at their ceremony. Mr. Cataletto’s cousin Mathew David Collins Pizzorno was the best man. The bride’s sisters, Stace Karl and Melissa Lynch, were her maids of honor. The groom’s sister, Margaret Cerce, and the bride’s niece, Ava Lynch, did readings. Bagpipes played as the newlyweds left the church. They drove a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle convertible to the reception, where the groom’s father’s eight-piece jazz band played.

Mr. Cataletto is an elementary school teacher in East Hampton, while his wife is an art teacher at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor. A graduate of Pierson, she earned her bachelor’s degree in fine arts at Hofstra University and went on to earn her master’s in art education there. He graduated from East Hampton High School, majored in anthropology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and received his master’s degree in education from City College of New York. 

After the wedding, with the summer off from teaching, the couple took a six-week honeymoon on their 30-foot sailboat, traveling 1,000 miles all told to Mount Desert Island, Me., and back. 

The couple will have settled back into “their house in the woods on Swamp Road with their two dogs, Storm and Curly Bear, and will live happily ever after,” they wrote.