Katherine Frances Hoots and David Gregory D’Alessandro were married Aug. 17 in Newton, Mass. The Rev. Charles J. Higgins performed the ceremony at Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church, where he is the pastor.

Mrs. D’Alessandro, 23, is a copywriter at Precision Effect, an advertising agency in Boston that specializes in medical technologies and therapies. She graduated from Vassar College and is studying for a master’s degree in English at Harvard’s Extension School.

She is the daughter of Jacqueline L. Studer and Brent F. Hoots of Falmouth, Me. The bride’s father is a risk and structured finance consultant, and provides insurance for goods that are transported internationally; he works in Falmouth. Her mother is the general counsel of Akili Interactive, a medical technology firm in Boston.

She is also a granddaughter of Betty Hoots and Gene Hoots, who were the founders of Burger King, a company in Mattoon, Ill., that was the defendant in a federal trademark lawsuit brought in 1968 by the nationwide chain of the same name. The courts ultimately decided that because the Hoots’s restaurant predated the chain’s move into Illinois, the family could continue to use the name in a 20-mile radius of Mattoon, while the chain, which is based in Florida, could not.