Phillips and Quinn.
After six years of love and commitment, Chicagoans Kelley Elizabeth Quinn and Kathryn Mari Phillips pledged their lives to one another on July 29 during an intimate garden ceremony in Provincetown, Mass.
Quinn and Phillips were united by Quinn's best friend, Mary Joan Collins, in front of 20 witnesses at the Secret Garden Inn on the evening before Phillips's golden birthday.
The couple chose Provincetown for the ceremony because it was where they fell in love.
Diane Strawser, a corporate saleswoman from upstate New York, stood up for Quinn, a lifelong friend. Sarah Mesle, a professor from Rogers Park, stood up for Phillips, a college friend from the University of Iowa. Judy, the wedded couple's German shepherd-chow mix, acted as flower dog.
Quinn, 37, is a spokeswoman for Cook County Clerk David Orr's office and a former award-winning reporter for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and the Aurora Beacon News. Phillips, 30, is the education reporter for the Daily Southtown and was recently honored by the Chicago Headline Club, Illinois Press Association and the Education Writers Association. They were the 60th couple to register as domestic partners in Chicago.
The couple met in 2000 while working at a newspaper in upstate New York and moved to Chicago a year later. They currently reside in Wicker Park.