Collins Israel.

The marriage of Caldwell Gwendolyn Collins and William McKinney Israel was celebrated on June 10, 2006, at 6 p.m. at the Cathedral Church of St. Andrew.

The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert Deaver Collins Jr. She is the granddaughter of Mrs. Warren Arthur Hiatt and the late Dr. Warren Arthur Hiatt of Magnolia and Dr. and Mrs. Robert Dearer Collins of Nashville, Tennessee. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Calvin Israel Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama. He is the grandson of Dr. and Mrs. William Green Lyle and the late Mrs. Edna Cordts Lyle of Clarksville, Tennessee, and Dr. and Mrs. George Calvin Israel of Conyers, Georgia.

Rev. Ollie Vernell Rencher officiated, and acolytes were Thomas Jones Biggs Allin, Clara Frances Cannon, Selby Ruth McRae, and Alden Marie Wofford.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a Vera Wang Collection gown of ivory satin-faced organza, with bias bands of duchess trim, accentuated with couture bows and guipure lace applique on the train. She wore her mother's cathedral-length veil of ivory French silk illusion. She carried a hand-tied teardrop bouquet of Sahara ivory and blush roses, lisianthus, stephanotis, chartreuse cymbidium orchids, eucalyptus, and rosemary.

Meriwether Micou Wofford attended the bride as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Kathryn Marie Aiken, Mayer Jollay Buisson, Constance Brooke Carroll, Sara Jane Doby, Emily Katherine Freeman, Lauren Elizabeth Hiatt, Sara Eleanor Israel, Emma Roos-Collins, and Samantha Mallory Tacker. They wore gowns of celadon satin with ivory satin ribbons and carried bouquets of lisianthus, sweet peas, roses, orchids, and herbs.

The flower girls were Anna Gale and Mary Chambers Brown, Virginia Kay Vascocu, and Beverley Susan Wade. They wore gowns of ivory organza with sage satin sashes, garlands of herbs, and carried bouquets of sweet peas.

The father of the groom served as best man. Groomsmen were Deaver Hiatt Collins, Kevin Michael Davidson, Russell William Ingram Jr., John Lyle Israel, Jonathan Edward Nelson, Bradley Lawrence Oser, Phillip Logan Stevens, Christopher Hull-Ryde Tanner, and Griffin Sinclair Tanner.

Norman Jerome Vascocu IV served as ring bearer. Byron Roos-Collins and Zachary Robert Wells Webster served as pageboys.

Reading the Lessons were Ashley Victoria Jane Mallinson and John David Wofford III.

Following the ceremony, a reception was held at the Country Club of Jackson, where guests enjoyed a seated dinner followed by dancing to the music of Entice. On the eve of the wedding, the parents of the groom hosted a rehearsal dinner at The Fairview Inn.

After a wedding trip to Belize, the couple is at home in St. Louis, Missouri, where the groom is an enterprise developer for DCSI and the bride is a law student at Washington University.