Christina Maher Burgess and Mark Walter Olsen were married Sept. 8 at Southwood Estate, an events space in Germantown, N.Y. Jonathan Jacobs, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated.
The bride, 35, works in New York as the project manager for operations and system design at Uncommon Schools, a charter school management organization. She graduated from Boston College and received a master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton.
She is a daughter of Diane M. Burgess and John T. Burgess Jr. of Pittstown, N.J. Her father retired as a software engineer at Acquire Media, a multimedia news organization in Roseland, N.J. Her mother retired as a program manager at Hewlett-Packard. She previously worked for Telcordia Technologies, a telecommunications company with headquarters in Piscataway, N.J.
Mr. Olsen, 39, works in New York as the head of production at Vox Media. He is also a producer for feature films, including “Bernard and Doris” (2006), “Before We Go” (2014) and “Alone” (2015). He graduated from George Washington University.
He is a son of Mary M. Olsen and Paul F. Olsen of Dover, N.J. His mother retired as an administrative assistant at the Oxford Group, a real estate appraisal company in New York. His father retired as an electrician in New York and a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3.
The couple met in Johnsburg, N.Y., in 2011 at a Fourth of July gathering hosted by the bride’s family.
