STEPHEN CHASE

Allegra Elizabeth Van Alen and Stephen Bendix Chase were married yesterday evening at a private home in San Francisco.

The ceremony was performed by Judge Andrew R. Hazard, of the Ninth Circuit, a family friend.

The bride, 23, is a vintner in Napa and graduated cum laude from Harvard. She is the daughter of Cordelia and Lawrence Van Alen of manhattan. The bride’s mother is a member of the Central Park Conservancy and the Blood Bank Committee. The bride’s late father was a professor of linguist-ics and history at Columbia.

The groom, 25, is an artist whose work is represented by the Vespertine Gallery in San Francisco, and included in the collection at the San Francisco museum of modern Art. He is a graduate of Stanford University. He is the son of Ronald and Deborah Chase of San Francisco, Napa, and Aspen. His father is an artist. His mother, known as “Decca,” is on the Board of Trustees at the SFmOmA, the San Francisco Opera, and the San Francisco Ballet. The groom’s great-grandfather founded the Bendix Group, a multinational company with steel holdings and oil reserves that was sold to British Petroleum in 1985.