Rachel Mary Flaherty and Joseph Travers McNamara were married on Oct. 20, 2018, at Our Lady of Loretto in Cold Spring.

The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thomas Kiely and Father Anselm Smedile of Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, where the couple met and from which both graduated. A reception was held at the Thayer Hotel at West Point.

The bride is the daughter of Annette and Robert Flaherty of Cold Spring and the groom is the son of Cynthia and Dennis McNamara of Burlington, Massachusetts. The couple traveled to Ireland for their honeymoon and reside in Abington, Massachusetts. Rachel is a client services manager at Allscripts, a digital health company in Boston, and Joseph is the shift lead manager for corporate security and staff EMT at Fidelity Investments in Boston.

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