Amy Rachel Gershkoff and Brendan Cutler Bolles were married Sept. 1 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Eric Anderson, a friend of the groom who is a minister in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, officiated. Kirsten Hall, a friend of the bride, took part in the ceremony, which incorporated Jewish wedding traditions.
Mrs. Bolles, who is 38 and works in San Francisco, consults for and advises companies in the technology sector regarding data and technology solutions. She previously served as the head of media planning for President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. She graduated summa cum laude from Cornell, and received both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in political science from Princeton.
She is the daughter of Pamela C. Gershkoff and Ira K. Gershkoff of Ashburn, Va. The bride’s father is an Ashburn-based principal consultant with T2RL, an aviation consulting firm. Her mother is a teacher at Edlin Private School, an elementary school in Reston, Va.
Mr. Bolles, 43, is the senior technical director for Swordfish, a creative advertising studio in San Francisco. Previously, he served as a visual effects artist for movies including “Sin City” and “Hellboy.”
He is a son of Patricia S. Bolles and Peter B. Bolles of Oak Bluffs, Mass. The groom’s father is a retired architect at Bolles Associates, which was owned by the groom’s grandfather John Savage Bolles, who designed Candlestick Park, the former home ballpark of the San Francisco Giants.
The couple met in 2015 on Match.com.
