Melanie Alison Blair and Evan Robert Thies were married Nov. 10 at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn. Nicholas Caruso, a friend of the couple who is a Universal Life minister, officiated.
Ms. Blair, 29, is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at CUNY Graduates Center, Queens College. She works in Glen Oaks, N.Y., as a clinical research coordinator in the psychiatry research department of the Feinstein Institute of Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y. She graduated from the University of Maryland and received a master’s degree in psychology from Columbia.
She is a daughter of Ellen J. Blair and Dr. Charles L. Blair of West Hartford, Conn. The bride’s father is a psychiatrist in private practice in West Hartford. Her mother is the nurse director of psychiatry at the Institute of Living at Hartford Hospital in Hartford.
Mr. Thies, 39, is a founder of Pythia Public Affairs, a communications firm in Brooklyn that also runs political campaigns. He graduated from Syracuse.
He is the son of Kathleen M. Thies and Dr. Robert W. Thies of Bedford, N.H. The groom’s mother is a health care consultant in private practice in Bedford. His father is a neurologist in private practice in Manchester, N.H.
The couple were introduced through mutual friends in 2014 at a bar in Lower Manhattan.
The groom’s first marriage ended in divorce.
