Maraniss-Vander Schaaff Wedding

Sarah Jean Maraniss and Thomas Lucius Vander Schaaff were married on Sept. 28, 2002 in Washington.Sarah Jean Maraniss is the daughter of Linda and David Maraniss of Washington and Thomas Lucius Vander Schaaff is the son of Todd Vander Schaaff of Conway and the late Sharon Thomas. The Right Rev. Jane Holmes Dixon, who is a retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, performed the ceremony at the Meridian House, a historic home. The bride will continue to use her name professionally. She is an actress who appeared last summer in "The Taming of the Shrew" at the Coast to Coast Theater in Wellesley, Mass. She is the director of Senior Shakespeare, a program she created in Belmont, Mass. that brings Shakespeare to the elderly.Sarah graduated from Northwestern and received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama. Her father is an associate editor at The Washington Post, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1993. He is also the author of biographies of Bill Clinton and Vince Lombardi. Her mother retired as a special assistant in the fundraising department of the Ocean Conservancy, an organization in Washington.Thomas works in Lexington, Mass., as an associate in the venture capital group of MMC capital, a unit of the Marsh & McLennan Companies. He graduated from Princeton. His father is an art therapist at the Center of Hope in North Conway. The bridegroom's mother was a watercolorist who taught art at the Rumsey Hall School in Washington, Conn.