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Margaret McKinley Farland and Mark Robert Peter Griffin were married at four o'clock in the afternoon on June 27, 2009, at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Greensboro. The Reverend John Akers officiated. A reception at the Greensboro Country Club followed the ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Melanie Anne Taylor of Chapel Hill and Mr. Christopher Simpson Farland of Wilmington. She is the granddaughter of the late Mrs. Kathleen Bryan Edwards and the late Mr. Ray Howard Taylor, Jr. of Greensboro and the late Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Simpson Farland of Winchester, Virginia. She is the great granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McKinley Bryan of Greensboro. The bride is a graduate of Saint Andrew's School of Middletown, Delaware, and received a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Georgetown University. She was presented by the Debutante Club of Greensboro and the Terpsichorean Club of Raleigh. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Brian Griffin of Melbourne, Australia. He is the grandson of the Mrs. Shirley Catherine Burgess and the late Mr. Jack Dennis Burgess of Melbourne, Australia, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold George Griffin of Sydney, Australia. He is a graduate of De La Salle College in Melbourne, Australia, and received an associate's degree from Durham Technical Community College, graduating with high honors. Given in marriage by her father, the bride was attended by her sister, Kathleen Clay Farland of Boston, Massachusetts, as maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Anne Simpson Farland of Atlanta, Georgia, sister of the bride; Sarah Catherine Farland of Greensboro, sister of the bride; and Katherine Emma Anne Griffin of Melbourne, Australia, sister of the groom. The best man was David Charles Fajgenbaum of Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia. Groomsmen were Wesley Dale McCallister of Raleigh, John Woodward Scull of Wilmington and Jason McClelland Heathcote of Raleigh. Readers were the aunt of the bride, the Honorable Pricey Harrison, and the father of the groom, John Brian Griffin. Cousins of the bride, Saskia Clay Taylor and Annelies Price Taylor of Madison, Wisconsin, served as program attendants. The couple will reside in Chapel Hill.