The New York Times-20080127-Mary Kerwin- Nicholas Holmes

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Mary Kerwin, Nicholas Holmes

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Mary Alice Kerwin was married on Saturday to Nicholas Stone Holmes. The Rev. Olivia Holmes, a Unitarian Universalist minister and an aunt of the bridegroom, performed the ceremony at All Souls Unitarian Church in New York.

Mrs. Holmes, 39, is an associate director of merchandising in New York for Conde Nast Portfolio, the business publication, where she works on marketing programs. Before that, the bride was director of business development in New York for The Economist. She graduated from Rutgers.

She is a daughter of Kathleen Ann Kerwin of Avon-by-the-Sea, N.J., and the late Gerard J. Kerwin. Her mother retired as a private registered nurse in Monmouth County in New Jersey. Her father, who was an electrical engineer, was the chief of the electrical bureau of the New Jersey Department of Transportation in Trenton.

Mr. Holmes, 34, is the in-house legal counsel at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He graduated with high honors from Emory and received a law degree from the University of Michigan.

He is the son of Ruth E. Holmes and Sidney S. Holmes of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. His mother is the founder of Pentec, a firm in Bloomfield Hills specializing in handwriting analysis for personality profiling, hiring and jury selection. His father retired as an account executive with Goodyear, in Southfield, Mich.

The bride's first marriage ended in divorce.

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