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June 8, 2024
Annapolis, Maryland

The wedding of Sydney Riley & Shane Leary

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Shane Leary

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Sydney Riley

Annapolis

Maryland

June 8

2024

| THE COUPLE |

The bride and groom met in 2019, the summer after they graduated. They spent six weeks studying political philosophy and public policy in Washington, D.C. before the bride went to the Czech Republic to teach English and the groom returned home to work in the New York State Assembly. In the summer of 2020 after months of virtual letters and long distance phone calls, they were joined by two friends for a cross-country road trip from Washington state to Washington, D.C. The formal cause was to move Sydney to a new city, but the final cause was for Shane to win her over. The road trip ended in Davidsonville, Maryland, at the historic farmhouse of their friends, Nick and Rachel Mackey, who direct the summer program that introduced Shane and Sydney. It was at this house that Shane proposed to Sydney on Easter Sunday after two and a half years of long distance courtship, and it is only fitting that this be the location of their wedding reception this June.

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