Wedding Announcements

A surprise ceremony

“Trey” Dwight Delmar Hatcher III married Tricia LeAnne Tupper on Dec. 31, 2016, at 9 p.m. Vera Dineen opened Cornwall Town Hall on New Year’s Eve for the license, and KC Baird officiated the ceremony at the Cornwall home of Sukie Hatcher (the groom’s mother). Tom Brown photographed the surprise wedding. The couple resides in the state of Washington, where Trey is serving in the United States Navy.

A Romantic Wedding in Amsterdam 

Thomas R. Trowbridge IV, son of Thomas and Nancy Trowbridge of Sharon and New York, was married in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on Saturday, July 30, 2016, to Wendy Dubbeld of Noordwijk aan zee, the Netherlands.

Since so many friends of the couple came from afar, especially the U.S., activities were planned for them. On Thursday afternoon, July 28, there was a private guided tour of the Rembrandt paintings at the Rijksmuseum followed by welcome outdoor cocktails under a tent.

Friday was the day 85 guests went on a bike trip to a small town called Ouderkerk aan de Amsel about 9 miles outside of Amsterdam for a champagne lunch. The rehearsal dinner that evening was held at the headquarters of the Dutch West India Company, the company that founded New York City. 

On Saturday there was a private guided tour of the Van Gogh museum. Late that afternoon, the wedding took place at the Westerkerk, the largest protestant church in the Netherlands and the burial place of Rembrandt. 

The celebrant of the wedding was a friend of the bride and groom, Marcello Cipriano. The maid of honor was Consuelo A. Cipriano; the best man was Charles P. Rockefeller. The bride’s witnesses were her two brothers, Bart C. Dubbeld and Wouter Dubbeld. The groom’s witnesses were his two sisters, Carrie W. Trowbridge and Annie O. Trowbridge. 

After the ceremony, as the guests and wedding party left the church, large canal boats were waiting. They took everyone on a canal tour of Amsterdam while the guests enjoyed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The boats eventually docked at the National Maritime Museum, where the wedding reception was held in the great hall. The after-party went on for hours in another part of the museum.

On late Sunday afternoon, buses picked up the guests and took them to the seaside town of Noordwijk where a buffet dinner was served at a beach club followed by bonfires on the beach.

The groom is the head of the New York office of a London hedge fund. Dubbeld is a model and the co-owner and manager of the modeling agency VDM Model Management. The couple went on a wedding trip to Bali and are now living in TriBeCa in New York City. 

The groom’s father, who is retired, was a partner in the law firm of Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine and, most recently, special counsel with Baker Botts LLP. The groom’s mother, who is also retired, was an attorney in private practice.

Dubbeld is the daughter of Elisabeth T. M. Mineur. Her father, Willem Dubbeld, passed away in 2004. Her second father is Pieter de Ruijter, who is an entrepreneur.