Leslie Jean Evans and Landon Ketchum Thorne III were married on Saturday in Norwalk, Conn. The Rev. John S. Livingston, a minister of the United Church of Christ, performed the ceremony at the United Church of Rowayton.
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Mrs. Thorne, 48, works in New York, coaching executives at financial service and media companies about interpersonal and organizational issues. She graduated from Middlebury.
She is a daughter of Linda E. Evans and George S. Evans of Rowayton, Conn. Her father retired as the manager of international relations at General Electric in Washington. Her mother retired as a real estate agent at Kelly Associates in Darien, Conn.
Mr. Thorne, 65, is an owner of the Millennium Real Estate Group, an investment firm, in Beaufort, S.C. He is a trustee of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York. In 1996, he was the on-camera business adviser for participants in the Miami edition of “The Real World,” on MTV. In 2002, he retired as a colonel in the Marine Reserves, stationed at MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa, Fla. He graduated from Yale.
He is a son of the late Alice B. Thorne who lived in Westport, Conn., and the late Mr. Thorne Jr., who lived in New York. His father was a vice president at Bankers Trust in New York. The bridegroom is a descendant of William Thorne, who signed the Flushing Remonstrance, a 1657 document demanding religious tolerance.
The bridegroom’s first marriage ended in divorce, and he was a widower.