Jennifer Elizabeth Greim and Adam Thomas Deen were married Aug. 17. Jeffrey H. Davis, a friend of the couple and a Universal Life minister, officiated at the Clermont State Historic Site in Germantown, N.Y.
Ms. Greim, 31, is the director for external relations at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, N.Y. She graduated magna cum laude from Colgate.
She is the daughter of Elizabeth L. Dixon and Jeffrey L. Greim of Longmeadow, Mass. The bride’s father is the founder of Jeff’s Granola, a cereal maker in Longmeadow, and retired as the graduate studies director for nonprofit management and philanthropy at Bay Path University, also in Longmeadow. Her mother is a social worker at Greater Springfield Senior Services, a social services agency in Springfield, Mass.
The bride is a great-granddaughter of Robert Dechert, a lawyer, who was the general counsel to the Defense Department under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and is also a great-great-great-great granddaughter of Louis Antoine Godey, an American editor and publisher who founded Godey’s Lady’s Book, the 19th-century American women’s fashion magazine.
Mr. Deen, 28, is a creative content producer and storyteller in the Rhinebeck, N.Y., office of SunCommon, a solar-energy equipment installer. He completed a program in acting and filmmaking at the New York Conservatory for Film and Television in New York.
He is the son of Dixie Evers Allison of Lynn Haven, Fla., and Thomas O. Deen of Columbus, Ga. The groom’s mother is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Panama City Beach, Fla. His father is the managing director for technology at LandrumHR, a human-resources consulting company in Pensacola, Fla.
The groom is also the stepson of Tanya N. Deen, who is the information security director at Total System Services, a credit-card processor in Columbus, Ga., and of Darren J. Allison, an electrical and heating, ventilation and air-conditioning contractor.
The couple met in 2011, when both were working on a Vogue cover photo shoot. She had been charged with lugging a generator across the beach on the second day of the shoot, in Newport, R.I., when Mr. Deen caught her eye.
“I honestly think he handed me a generator out of the back of a truck, and I thought, this guy is really cute at the same time I thought, ‘I don’t know if I can carry this generator,’” she said.
He helped her with the job, and a flirtation was born.
Ms. Greim noticed that he was sweet and warm, and different from other men she knew. Mr. Deen found making her laugh exhilarating, and knew he’d need that in his life.
Their work at the time — she worked for a photographer, and he was a set designer for a production design agency — brought them together over and over again.
“I finally really got up the nerve to talk to him at a work holiday party,” she said. “We talked, I thought we hit it off, and I never heard from him.”
Six months later, in March 2014, she switched jobs, and he promptly asked her out.
“I was interested the whole time,” he said. “My boss and her boss were really close, and it wasn’t going to work out if we were dating. Now that that person was out of the equation, it could totally work.”
The two went to a screening of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” in a Union Square theater in New York, and, Ms. Greim said, “He walked me home afterward, and kissed me good night.”
“It was so gentlemanly, after knowing each other for so long,” she said. “I remember running upstairs and texting one of my best friends. It felt very storybook.”
