Congressman Peter Welch, state Representative Margaret Cheney of Norwich, are now husband and wife.
The couple made the announcement Saturday, a day after they were married in a ceremony attended by family at Cheney’s home.
Welch and his late wife Joan Smith raised five children together. Cheney graduated from Harvard in 1974 and has three college- and high-school-aged children from a prior marriage.
Welch, a longtime state senator and president pro tem, is beginning his second term in Congress. Cheney is beginning her second term in the Vermont House.