Mooney-Collie
Elizabeth Saylor Arrington Mooney and Clayton Benjamin Collie were married Sept.15 at Meadow Brook Baptist Church. The Rev. Rusty Hutson and Pastor Jason Ellerbee officiated the 5 p.m. ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gaston Mooney II of Birmingham. The groom is the son of Mrs. Sally Campbell and Mrs. Phillip Collie of Guntersville and Albertville.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a strapless, fitted ivory Alencon lace over a café silk underlay gown from The White Room paired with her mother’s silk illusion veil.
She placed in her shoe a silver sixpence coin given to her by her father, who acquired it years ago while he was in school in England.
Her bouquet from Susan Huff of The King’s Creation was wrapped in her maternal grandmother’s handkerchief, monogrammed in Carolina blue with Psalm 34:3. Diamond and pearl drop earrings, worn previously by four of the bridesmaids in their own weddings, was the borrowed piece.
In true Southern form, the wedding party consisted of 15 bridesmaids and 15 groomsmen.
The bride chose Holly Bradford Nichols as her matron of honor. Bridesmaids were Ashley Page Mooney and Leigh Garner Mooney, sisters-in-law of the bride; Austin Elizabeth Collie, sister of the groom; Mallory Lynn Anderson; Emily Dianne Brock; Elizabeth Pouncey Fraser; Jill Dickhaus Hofsommer; Rachel Walton Knowlton; Laura Martino Morison; Christine Parker Pursell; Amanda Marian Sanders; Jordan Johnson Soyars; Sarah Jane Brock Thorn; and Mary Grace Edwards Walters. The bridesmaids wore latté colored silk taffeta floor-length dresses.
The groom chose his brother, Paul Cavin Collie, as his best man. Groomsmen were Arnold Gaston Mooney III and John Hartwell Houston Mooney, brothers of the bride; Gary Douglas Abernathy Jr.; Brook Drennen Acton; Justin Michael Burns; Wade Embril Edwards; David James Elmer; William Rexford Hart; Walter Lee Kearns,; Jesse Harris Mann; William Marshall Parker; Jeffrey Russell Parker; Bradley Kenneth Smith and Phillip John Wehrman. The groomsmen wore traditional black tuxedos and bowties.
To celebrate the Mooney family’s Scottish heritage, the bride was escorted down the aisle by her father while bagpiper Ryan Morrison piped “Come Thou Fount.” A dinner and dancing reception followed at the American Village in Montevallo.
The bride is a graduate of Furman University, where she received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in elementary education and was member of Kappa Delta sorority. She teaches soccer at Briarwood Christian School.
The groom is a graduate of Auburn University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in history and was a member of Farm House fraternity. He is employed by Booster.
After a honeymoon trip to the Rivera Maya area of Mexico, the couple live in Birmingham.
