LISA IADEVAIA, FROM Rhode Island, and Alan Devlin from Dublin were married on June 5th at St Augustin’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island. Their reception for 120 close family and friends was held at the OceanCliff hotel overlooking Narragansett Bay.
Lisa, the daughter of Richard and Kathleen Iadevaia, was escorted down the aisle by her father, and helped in different ways by her two maids of honour; Allyson Esposito and Renata Koleda, and four bridesmaids: Kerry Bute, Vicky Halikias, Sheila Lahijani and Mollie O’Brien. A long-time family friend, Reverend Alfred Ricci, conducted the ceremony.
An associate attorney at Adler Murphy McQuillen LLP in Chicago, Illinois, Lisa was educated at the University of Rhode Island, where she received a BA in Biological Sciences, English Language and Literature, graduating summa cum laude. She later went on to obtain a Juris Doctor at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, where she was articles editor of the DePaul-LCA Journal of Art Entertainment Law.
Alan is the son of David and Alma Devlin, and grew up in Dublin. Peter Kinsella and Andrew Power acted as his best men, while his brothers James and Stephen Devlin, friend David Sellars and the bride’s brother Michael Iadevaia acted as groomsmen.
He is associate attorney in the Chicago office of Latham Watkins, where he specialises in antitrust, intellectual property, and securities litigation. He received a first-class honours degree in business and legal studies from University College Dublin, before going on to study at the University of Chicago where he received an LLM. He then enrolled in Chicago's doctoral programme, studying competition law and economics under the supervision of Judge Richard Posner. While reading for the JSD degree at Chicago, Alan received a two-year JD from Stanford Law School, where he served as articles editor for the Stanford Law Review.
The couple met at the DePaul University Barristers’ Ball in 2003, while Alan was attending the university as part of a study year abroad programme. A relationship blossomed and the following year Lisa came to Ireland to study at UCD for a semester. They became engaged in Dublin in December 2007, during a whirlwind three-day trip by the couple to visit Alan’s parents.
After the wedding, the couple flew to Hawaii for a two-week honeymoon in Kauai and Maui.