Hannah Elizabeth Grossman and Sarah Elizabeth Williams were married March 22 at the Beverly Hills Courthouse in California. Marilyn Szatmary, a deputy commissioner of civil marriage for Los Angeles County, officiated. On March 23, Beth Pickens, a friend of the couple, led them in a ceremony incorporating Jewish traditions at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Calif.
The couple each received a master’s degree from the University of Southern California — Ms. Grossman in curatorial practices and the public sphere, and Ms. Williams in public art studies. In 2018 they became domestic partners in California.
Ms. Grossman (left), 30, is the assistant curator at the Pomona College Museum of Art in Claremont, Calif. She graduated from California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita.
She is a daughter of Dena J. Rosenzweig and Richard A. Grossman of Atlanta. The bride’s father is a criminal defense lawyer in private practice in Atlanta. Her mother works in Atlanta as a senior vice president and a deputy general counsel for the lottery division at Scientific Games in Las Vegas, a provider of systems and services for casino, lottery, social and online gaming and sports betting.
Ms. Williams, 34, is a founder and the executive director of Women’s Center for Creative Work, a feminist art space in Los Angeles. She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
She is a daughter of Pamela S. Williams and Walker G. Williams of Lake Arrowhead, Calif. Her father retired as a superintendent of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District in Palos Verdes, Calif. He is on the board of Rim of the World Education Foundation, which supports programs in the local public schools in Lake Arrowhead. Her mother retired as a principal of Promenade Elementary School in Corona, Calif. She is now an adjunct instructor at the Graduate School of Education at University of California, Riverside.
After Ms. Grossman moved to Los Angeles in 2009, the couple became acquainted with each other through the Los Angeles art scene. In 2016, when they ran into each other at a gallery opening, they decided to meet at a wine bar in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles a few days later after work. They didn’t want the evening to end after drinks, so they walked over to have dinner at Taix, a French restaurant. They quickly realized they wanted to see each other again and began dating after that.
