Louisa Sidney White and Eliot Graeme Sperling of Washington, D.C., were married on Saturday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. The Rev. Dr. Adam Shoemaker officiated.
The reception took place at the 18th-century Gadsden House in downtown Charleston.
The bride is the daughter of Ellen Gibson White and Christopher Silva White of Charleston and Amagansett. She grew up overseas and spent her summers in Amagansett, where her grandmother Nina Gibson is still a full-time resident at age 99.
The bride, who is known as Lulu, attended the Singapore American School, the Chapin School, Wake Forest University, and the University of Virginia, where she earned a master’s degree in religion and media studies. She works in international development in the Central Asian and Afghanistan region for a company based in Washington. She will keep her last name.
The groom is the son of Jane Alexanian Sperling and Lawrence David Sperling of Singapore and Park City, Utah. He also attended the Singapore American School, then went on to the University of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University, earning a master’s degree in public administration. He works for the Department of Justice in management and program analysis.
While both bride and groom attended the same school in Singapore, they never met there, and instead met by chance in Charlottesville, Va., in 2021, when they were in graduate school.
After a honeymoon in Argentina, they will live in Washington.