Ikue Ogami and William Connor McCarty were married May 2, 2015, at Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Cahaba Heights. The noon ceremony was officiated by the Rt. Rev. Russell Kendrick. A reception followed at Historic Rucker Place in Birmingham.
The bride, a 2011 graduate of Meiji University in Tokyo, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Yasuji Ogami of Yokohama, Japan. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Akira Ogami of Wakayama, Japan, and of Mrs. Chizuko Omori and the late Mr. Ryuma Omori of Aichi, Japan.
The groom, a 2009 graduate of Mountain Brook High School and a 2013 graduate of the University of Alabama, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William McCarty of Mountain Brook. He is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Justin Hunter McCarty of Nashville and of Mr. and Mrs. Albert P. Smith of Lexington, Kentucky. The groom is also the grandson of the late Mr. Lewis Hancock of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Given in marriage by her parents, the bride wore a white satin off‐the‐shoulder gown with a chapel‐length Watteau train and elbow‐length gloves. She carried a bouquet of white peonies, dahlias, roses, ranunculus, Queen Anne’s lace and Solomon’s seal.
Virginia Major of West Hartford, Connecticut, aunt of the groom, served as matron of honor. Susannah Major of West Hartford, cousin of the groom, was bridesmaid. Junior bridesmaids were Ava Major of West Hartford and Ainsley Hancock of Franklin, Tennessee, both cousins of the groom.
The father of the groom served as best man. Groomsmen were Evan Michael McCarty, brother of the groom, of Chicago; Sean Stalley of Foley; and Justin Bond of Atlanta. Garrett Hancock of Franklin, Tennessee, cousin of the groom, served as ring bearer.
After a wedding trip to California, the couple live in Tokyo, where Ikue is a project planning and management associate with Hino Motors Ltd., a subsidiary of Toyota, and Connor is a consultant for En World, an executive search firm.
The couple, who met when Mrs. McCarty was an exchange student at the University of Alabama, were honored at Brasserie T’s Musee at the Yokohama Museum of Art on May 23, 2015.
