Ted Kennedy Weds Washington Lawyer : Marriage: Roses, lace, poetry and no press frame family ceremony at his Virginia home. It is second union for both.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Washington lawyer Victoria Anne Reggie were married Friday evening in a small civil ceremony attended by about 30 close relatives in the living room of Kennedy’s house in McLean, Va., according to a spokesman.

In keeping with the couple’s desire for privacy, the location and timing of the ceremony were not disclosed until after the fact. They evaded what could have been considerably more publicity by marrying in McLean rather than in Nantucket, Mass., where Reggie and her family have homes and where reporters had camped in anticipation of the ceremony.

The only non-family members at the wedding were U.S. District Judge A. David Mazzone of Massachusetts, the Kennedy family friend who performed the ceremony, and his wife, Eleanor.

The marriage is the second for Kennedy and his new wife. Kennedy, 60, was divorced from his first wife, Joan, in 1982, and has three children. Reggie, 38, was divorced from her first husband, Grier Raclin, in 1990 and is the mother of two young children.

Reggie is the daughter of a prominent Louisiana politician and retired judge. She has known the Kennedy family for years and began dating the senator a little more than a year ago. She is a partner in the Washington law firm of Keck, Mahin & Cate, specializing in banking law.

Kennedy’s spokesman, Paul Donovan, said the two were married in front of the fireplace in Kennedy’s living room. Family members read selections of George Eliot and Elizabeth Barrett Browning from a poetry anthology that Kennedy and Reggie discovered together in the library of the Kennedy family house in Hyannisport, Mass., Donovan said.

Reggie, wearing a knee-length dress of white lace over white silk, carried a bouquet of three cream-colored Vivaldi roses with pink tinting. She was attended by her daughter, Caroline Reggie Raclin; her mother, Doris Reggie; her sister, Alicia Reggie Freysinger; and Kennedy’s daughter, Kara Kennedy Allen.

Kennedy, wearing a dark blue pin-striped suit, white shirt and blue-and-silver tie, was attended by his son, Edward M. Kennedy Jr.; his son-in-law, Michael D. Allen; and Victoria Reggie’s son, Curran Raclin. Other Kennedy family guests included his sisters, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Jean Kennedy Smith and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, and his sister-in-law Ethel Kennedy. Kennedy’s son, Patrick, a state representative in Rhode Island, missed the ceremony because his flight from Providence was canceled.

Kennedy, an amateur painter, gave Reggie one of his paintings--a daffodil scene--as a wedding gift. Guests were given reproductions inscribed with Wordsworth’s lines:

“And then my heart with pleasure fills,

“And dances with the daffodils.”