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espite attending the same elementary school in Westport, Connecticut, Drew Shannon and Kelty O’Brien wouldn’t meet until years later. Mutual friends made the introduction while the pair was in college. Drew graduated from Chapman University, and Kelty graduated from Wake Forest University. They moved to San Francisco in 2017 and work at Meta. After 4 ½ years of dating, Drew planned to propose. He arranged a late dinner with friends and took Kelty on a detour to the Presidio – a favorite spot for the pair – overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge. There, he popped the question, and they celebrated their engagement at dinner. Drew and Kelty kicked off their wedding weekend with a rehearsal dinner at Fishers Island Club. The next day, on Oct. 2, 2021, they 164
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got married at St. John’s Church on Fishers Island, New York. Their reception was held at Ocean View, the home of Kelty’s aunt, Lucinda Herrick. In attendance were the groom’s longtime Chapel Hill High School friends Taylor Gilland, Roger Nahum and Jack Marshall. Kelty is the daughter of James O’Brien of Westport, Connecticut, and Kip O’Brien of West Palm Beach, Florida. Drew is the son of Dan Shannon and Ellen Shannon, of Chapel Hill. For their honeymoon, the couple witnessed the great Serengeti wildebeest migration in Tanzania. “We then went to the Maldives for some beach time and relaxing,” they said. “We finished with a weekend at Al Maha, a desert resort within the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve in the United Arab Emirates. It was the trip of a lifetime.” Kelty and Drew live in San Francisco. CHM