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Leila Mountain & George Shaw
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Greenwich was the setting for the wedding of Leila Child Mountain, daughter of Marjorie and Robert Perry Mountain Jr. of Greenwich, and George Levings Shaw, son of Libby and Robert Harris Shaw Jr. of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and the late Maxine Wellborn Shaw of Atlanta. The Reverends Robert Alves and Avery Manchester performed the ceremony.
Guests dined and danced at a tented reception at the home of the bride’s parents where the groom’s cake, a Southern tradition, almost stole the show from the bridal version. Honoring George’s alma mater, the University of Alabama, the cake was a copy of longtime football coach Bear Bryant’s trademark black-and-white-checked hat.
The bride, a graduate of Westminster School in Simsbury and Bowdoin College, chose Greenwich Academy classmate Shannon Murphy as a maid of honor. Leila is the product development manager for Ceranima Home, a casual entertaining collection.
Her husband, a graduate of Tuscaloosa Academy, is an operations director with the Bruno Event Team, a sports marketing and event management firm in Birmingham. The Birmingham newlyweds honeymooned in Nevis.
Jennifer Zatzkin & Frederick Kass
Jennifer Lisa Zatzkin and Frederick David Kass began dating after sitting together in tenth-grade chemistry class at Greenwich High School. Sixteen years later they were married at Seven Hills Inn in Lenox, Massachusetts.
The intervening years saw Jenny, the daughter of writer and potter Joanne Zatzkin and Dr. Charles Zatzkin of Riverside, receive a music degree from Clark University, an M.A. in music therapy from Lesley University and become a music therapist in private practice in Massachusetts’s Pioneer Valley. She is also staff music therapist at the Community Music School of Springfield.
Fred left Greenwich at sixteen to attend Simon’s Rock College of Bard and earned a bachelor’s degree in economics of information systems at the University of Massachusetts. Now an MBA student at the Eisenberg School of Management at UMass, he is the networking and systems manager at Mount Holyoke College. His parents are former Greenwich residents Sue and the Reverend Arthur Kaufman, now of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and Frederick Kass of New Windsor, New York. The groom’s stepfather, a Methodist minister, officiated at the outdoor ceremony.
The newlyweds honeymooned in Greece and live in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Laura Klemm & Shawn Smith
It was a very warm day at the Lazy Z Resort in Twain Harte, California, but happiness reigned at the outdoor civil ceremony uniting Laura Lea Klemm, daughter of Hoang and Richard Klemm of Ventura, California, and Shawn Michael Smith, son of Beverly Buehler Smith and Michael Roddie Smith of Cos Cob, formerly of Riverside.
Laura, a real estate consultant with AG Realty in Orinda, California, is a graduate of Ventura Community College and Chico State University. She and Shawn, an underwater construction diver, met in Santa Barbara while he was at Santa Barbara College and acquiring his diving certification. The former Marine, a Greenwich High School graduate, grew up sailing at Riverside Yacht Club, where his father is a past commodore.
Shawn heads a team diving on contract for a California company. Their projects have included retrofitting a San Francisco–area bridge to withstand earthquakes, and anti-terrorism work for the U.S. Navy. He is on call for diving contracts worldwide.
The newlyweds, who own a house in Oregon, took a mini-honeymoon there prior to a catamaran sail in the British Virgin Islands.
Lisa Velten & Andrew Smith III
When Lisa Mary Velten and Andrew William Smith III were cast as Ladybird and Buckshot in Desperadoes in Dreamland while getting their MFAs in acting degrees at the University of California, San Diego, both looked forward to rehearsals even more than usual.
Life on the stage moved on to the real thing. The actors were married on the lawn of the Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, where Lisa, a graduate of DePaul University, spent many happy summers with her family and parents, Rita and Paul Velten of Northbrook, Illinois. The Reverend Mark L. Fitzhugh, assistant to the rector of Christ Church Greenwich, officiated.
Andrew William Smith, as he is known professionally, cofounded and for five years was artistic director of Project Y, a professional theater group in Washington, D.C. The Brunswick, St. George’s School (Newport) and Middlebury College alumnus is the son of Mary V. T. Cattan of Stamford and F. Clawson Smith of Cos Cob.
The newlyweds are pursuing their vocations as actors in film, theater and TV in New York City. Home base is a cozy fourth-floor walkup in Washington Heights.
Chalon Westcott & Jonathan Lefebvre
In 2001, Carol Lefebvre of Greenwich began seeing physical therapist Chalon Westcott and told her husband Albert that she saw a match for their son Jonathan. Trying to be professional, Chalon demurred but the Lefebvres persisted. Unfortunately, when Jonathan contacted her, he joked about having a bad shoulder. Annoyed, Chalon told him to make an appointment. He invited her to his birthday party anyway and at Christmastime 2004 proposed on bended knee at Café des Artistes in Manhattan.
They were wed in Rutland, Vermont, at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church. A reception followed at the Killington Grand Hotel in Killington.
Chalon is a licensed physical therapist and licensed massage therapist at ONS (Orthopedic Neurosurgery Specialists) in Greenwich. She is a graduate of the University of Vermont, with a bachelor of science degree in physical therapy, and of the Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy. Her parents are Marcia and Trip Westcott of Pittsford, Vermont.
Jonathan is a research associate at Wachovia Securities in New York. The Greenwich High School alumnus received a bachelor’s degree in business administration at James Madison University.
The newlyweds live in Greenwich.
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