Saoni Sen and Sharone Golan Tobias are to be married Oct. 28 in Washington. Rabbi Dr. Shira Lander is to officiate at the Carnegie Institution for Science, with Jay D. Sen, a friend of the couple, leading the couple through traditional Hindu wedding customs.
Ms. Sen (left), 30, is a corporate development manager at Enviva, a company in Bethesda, Md., that makes wood pellets for use in the production of electricity. She graduated from N.Y.U. and received an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is a daughter of Balaka Sen and Abhijit K. Sen of Old Bridge, N.J. Ms. Sen’s father is a senior manager for information technology in Franklin Lakes, N.J., for Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits manager. Her mother is an associate director for clinical database services in Rahway, N.J., for Merck & Company, the pharmaceutical concern.
Ms. Tobias, 29, is a senior strategy analyst in the defense, space and security business unit, in Arlington, Va., of the Boeing Company. She graduated from Barnard College and received a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia.
She is a daughter of Noga Golan Tobias and Steven M. Tobias of Houston. Ms. Tobias’s father is a consulting geophysicist in Houston on oil and gas exploration. Her mother is a family mediator in private practice in Houston.
The couple met in 2011, in New York, on a blind date that was engineered by a mutual friend.
