Alexandra Jane Crall and Benjamin Burba Williams were married July 20. The Rev. Elizabeth Lyles Swetenburg, a Presbyterian minister, officiated at the Crall family’s summer cottage on Walloon Lake in Boyne City, Mich.
Mrs. Williams, 31, is a watercolorist, calligrapher and custom stationery designer in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from the University of Colorado and received a master’s degree in elementary education from the Metropolitan State University of Denver.
She is the daughter of Mary Wolfe Crall and Colby M. Crall of Columbus. The bride’s father retired as an institutional investment banker in Columbus at Stifel Nicolaus, a St. Louis bank. Her mother was a stay-at-home parent.
Mr. Williams, also 31, is a commercial real estate analyst in the Columbus office of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, a commercial mortgage brokerage. He graduated from Davidson College, in Davidson, N.C., and received an M.B.A. from Ohio State University.
He is a son of Julianne Cryder Williams and Timothy B. Williams, also of Columbus. The groom’s mother retired as a senior marketing specialist there at Selective Insurance, and is now the technology chairwoman for the Women’s Board of Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in Columbus. The groom’s father is the director for defense business development at the W.W. Williams Company, a diesel engine distributorship in Dublin, Ohio.
The bride and groom have known each other since they were young children playing together at the Columbus Country Club’s swimming pool. They became friendly while in the sixth grade and began dating in 2014, a few years after graduating from college.
The couple has several family connections, including one between their great-great-grandfathers, who together ran The Columbus Dispatch, a daily newspaper, in the 1920s. The bride’s great-great grandfather Harry Preston Wolfe, was the publisher of the paper, and a great-great grandfather of the groom, George F. Burba, was its editor.
