Virginia “Gin” Jordan Graham and Gregory Alan Echols were married Oct. 11 in the Hill Garden of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens. The Rev. Dusty Davis officiated the 4 p.m. ceremony. A wedding supper immediately followed.
The bride grew up in Mountain Brook and lived around the United States. She returned to Birmingham in July 2014. The groom is the recently retired coach of cross country/track and field in the Mountain Brook School System, where he worked for the past 38 years.
The bride wore a white and gold Diane von Furstenberg formal gown with a handkerchief hem. Her granddaughters, Kennady Virginia Baxter and Colbie Elizabeth Baxter, of Birmingham attended the bride as flower girls.
Guests included four of the couple’s six sons as well as close family and friends. Dr. Clark Simpson provided music for the ceremony accompanied by the groom’s younger son, James Tanner Echols.
A celebration honoring the bride and groom was held Oct. 16 in the John Hand Club of the Hand Building in downtown Birmingham.
The couple live in Birmingham.
