Richard and Abigail

Kimball

MT. DESERT — Richard Guy Kimball and Abigail Gifford Hayward were married on Aug. 7 at Mt. Desert. Joan Jordan Grant, a minister of the United Church of Christ, performed the ceremony at the Thuya Gardens of Northeast Harbor. A reception followed at the Hulls Cove Schoolhouse, a 1909 building on the National Register of Historic Places.

The bridegroom was attended by Tim McLeod of Bangor and the bride was attended by Anne Martin of Auburn. The wedding musician was violist Rose Wollman of Lewiston.

The bridegroom is the son of the late Noreen Kimball of Bangor and the nephew of George and Gloria Vomvoris of Texas. The bride is the daughter of Thomas and Susan Hayward of Lewiston and Mt. Desert. Her paternal grandparents are Sarah Lowell Hayward of Mt. Desert and the late Walter Sumner Hayward Jr. Her maternal grandparents are William Henry Crandall of Atlanta and the late Barbara Arnold Crandall.

The bride wore a handmade vintage gown of luster duchess satin with intricate beading worn in 1948 by her maternal grandmother when she was wed at the First Baptist Church of America in Providence, R.I.

Mr. Kimball is a graduate of the University of Maine and employed as a teacher in the Brewer School Department. Mrs. Kimball is a graduate of Dickinson College and employed as an ed tech in the Carmel School Department. The couple resides in Bangor.

Following the wedding reception, the bride and bridegroom left for a short honeymoon to Bar Harbor, Boston and Portland, with a longer honeymoon planned in the winter.