Alexandra Willis Feuer and Joseph Charles Portale were married June 29 at Front and Palmer, an events space in a former barrel factory in the South Kensington Art District of Philadelphia. Maura J. Bernt, a nondenominational minister affiliated with Journeys of the Heart, officiated.
The couple met in 2011 at Gettysburg College, from which each graduated, he cum laude.
The bride, 27, is the upper school guidance counselor at Princeton Day School, a private school in Princeton, N.J., from which she graduated. She received a master’s degree in social work from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is the daughter of Carole Kline Feuer and Sherman D. Feuer of Princeton. Her parents own Minuteman Press of Somerville, a midsize commercial printing company in Somerville, N.J. She is the maternal granddaughter of Edward Kline, a human-rights activist focusing on Soviet dissidents in the former Soviet Union.
The groom, 26, is an associate scientist focusing on cancer research and immuno-oncology, at Janssen Pharmaceuticals in Spring House, Pa., and is now pursuing a master’s degree in immunology at Drexel University.
He is the son of Helen A. Portale and Charles F. Portale of North Wales, Pa. The groom’s mother is a banking officer in business banking at Firstrust Bank in Conshohocken, Pa. His father, who is retired, was a manager at the Vanguard Group, an investment company with headquarters in Valley Forge, Pa.
The couple began dating in their sophomore year of college. In August 2018, Mr. Portale proposed under an olive tree in a vineyard at Chateau de Bellet, just outside Nice, France, where Ms. Feuer has spent most summers with her family.
