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Walk in the Park
A Silver Spring couple’s Glen Echo wedding featured a six-piece band playing oldies, bags of Fisher’s Popcorn and a late-night stop at the Irish Inn BY DANA GERBER
HOW THEY MET: The night before Thanksgiving in 2015, Kasey and Tim struck up a conversation at Town Hall, a now-closed bar in D.C.’s Glover Park neighborhood, while they were there for high school reunions. They had met months before, at the Lighthouse Restaurant in Dewey Beach—Kasey remembered this, but Tim didn’t, until he realized upon asking for her number
that it was already in his phone. “I figured that was a sign that I should follow up,” Tim says. “The second time, I wasn’t going to let that go by without a call.” About a week later, for their first date, they chowed down on Mexican fare at the (now-closed) El Centro location on 14th Street. THE PROPOSAL: On Dec. 31, 2020, Kasey and Tim were on vacation in Folly Beach, South Carolina. The two had already picked out a rose-cut diamond ring at I. Gorman Jewelers in D.C., but Kasey was under the impression it wasn’t ready yet. During a break in the all-day rain, Tim asked Kasey to go for a walk. Under a misty streetlight by a beach entrance, Tim got down on one knee. “Luckily, the answer was yes,” he says. THE CEREMONY: The couple wed in a Catholic Mass ceremony on Oct. 2, 2021, at Annunciation Catholic Church in D.C. with about 175 guests present. Planning a wedding in 10 months proved tight, Kasey says, but the uncertainty of the pandemic worked in their favor. “Stuff in the fall was still available, because it was just a large question mark,” she says. The groom’s most
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THE COUPLE: Kasey Ott (maiden name O’Boyle), 30, grew up in Kensington and graduated from Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, D.C. She’s an art teacher at Connelly School of the Holy Child in Potomac. Tim Ott, 34, grew up in the Barnaby Woods neighborhood of Washington, D.C., and graduated from Landon School in Bethesda. He works in government contracting. They live in the Indian Spring Hills neighborhood of Silver Spring.
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