Middleton -- Kettebekov Natasha Middleton, artistic director...

Middleton -- Kettebekov

Natasha Middleton, artistic director of Burbank’s Media City

Ballet, married her company’s principal male dancer, Askar

Kettebekov, after leaving port in Newport Beach aboard a private

chartered yacht named Dream On.

The bride wore a silk satin beaded Jean Harlow-style gown,

designed by the bride and executed by Nancy Slyke of Van Herr

Bridals. The fingertip veil was accented by a handmade Austrian

crystallized seashell- beaded hairpiece. The groom wore a black

Pierre Cardin tuxedo.

Kristen Tremaine, the bride’s niece, was the maid of honor.

Sanzhar Kettebekov, the groom’s brother, served as the best man.

Seventy-five guests watched the ceremony officiated by the bride’s

uncle, Alfred Garrotto, a justice of the peace and novelist.

The bride was given away in marriage by her father, Andrei

Tremaine, a former soloist with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and

former artistic director of the Pacific Ballet Theatre. The bride’s

brothers, Andrei Middleton and Mario Middleton, served as ushers.

Alexandria (Lexi) Wong and Keiko Hartmann, Middleton’s students, were

flower girls.

Natasha Middleton is the daughter of Natalie Garrotto- Middleton,

a former soloist with the San Francisco Opera Company and a board

member of the ballet company, and Andrei Tremaine.

Askar Kettebekov is the son of Ulfat Kettebekov and Valeria

Chultorova, who were both former professors of chemistry in

Kazakhstan, just outside of Russia. They now reside in State College,

Pa.

After the reception, the couple embarked into a gondola, before

setting off for a weeklong honeymoon cruise on the Mediterranean Sea.

The couple will reside in Burbank.