Parihan Mutasim Rahman and Kevin-Michael Garcia Porras are to be married Oct. 14 in Tarrytown, N.Y. James O. Grizzell, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for this event, is to officiate at Tappan Hill Mansion.
Ms. Rahman, 25, is a business consultant, managing relationships with oil and gas companies, at Refinitiv, an information and data services provider in Manhattan. She graduated from Barnard College.
She is the daughter of Rubaiya Rahman and Fahim M. Rahman of Bellerose, Queens. The bride’s father is an independent textile importer. Her mother is the executive director of the Autism Society Habilitation Association, an organization in Jamaica, Queens, that provides education and information to South Asian families in New York City that have children with autism.
Mr. Porras, 29, is an associate product manager at TelTech, a company in South Amboy, N.J., that develops mobile applications designed to prevent unwanted calls. He graduated from N.Y.U.
He is a son of Ester Garcia Porras and Dr. Cornelio J. Porras of Leonia, N.J. The groom’s mother is an assistant head nurse for telemetry at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan. His father, a pulmonologist, is a pulmonary disease specialist at the Summit Medical Group in Clifton, N.J.
The couple, who will both use the surname Rahman-Porras, met in 2012 at a bar near Columbia, when the bride was still in college.
