Greta Ann Fails and Nicholas Charles O’Neill were married Oct. 27 at Migis Lodge on Sebago Lake in South Casco, Me. Frank Newman, a Universal Life minister who is a college friend of the couple, officiated.
The couple met in 2004 at freshman orientation at Yale, from which they both graduated.
Ms. Fails, 31, is an associate in the complex trial and appellate group, as well as the intellectual property group, at the Boston law firm Choate, Hall & Stewart. She received a law degree cum laude from N.Y.U.
Ms. Fails is the daughter of Terri Klausner and Gary P. Fails of Tappan, N.Y. The bride’s father is the founder and the president of City Theatrical, a theatrical lighting accessories company with offices in Carlstadt, N.J., and London. Her mother, a musical theater performer, teaches musical theater at Coupé Theater Studio in Nanuet, N.Y. She has appeared in several Broadway musicals, including as the alternate for Evita Perón in “Evita” in 1979, a solo performer in “Sophisticated Ladies” in 1981, and as Bebe Benzenheimer in “A Chorus Line” in 1978. In 1996 she won the Obie award for playing Ludmilla in the Off Broadway musical “Bed & Sofa” at the Vineyard Theater.
Mr. O’Neill, 32, is a Harvard Public Service Venture Fund Legal fellow with the City of Boston Law Department; included among his duties is doing litigation on behalf of the city. He received a law degree cum laude from Harvard. Until 2015, he was the chief of staff for State Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, a Manhattan Democrat.
He is a son of Pamela Percival and Richard O’Neill of Syracuse. Dr. Percival is a psychologist in private practice in Syracuse. She is on the board of Parents for Public Schools of Syracuse, of which she is a founder and a past president. Dr. O’Neill is a professor of psychology at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. He is also a host of “Cycle of Health,” a weekly television health program on WCNY, a PBS affiliate for 19 counties in central New York.
Ms. Fails and Mr. O’Neill were good friends throughout Yale, but that changed the week of graduation. As they were walking back to campus from a senior celebration, she recalled he suddenly asked her to hold on a second, just long enough for a first kiss.
