Amanda Sarah Hanley McGuire and Alexander Robinson Zook were married May 18 at the Somerset Club in Boston. The bride’s father, having obtained permission to solemnize the marriage from Massachusetts, officiated.
Ms. McGuire, 31, is the special-events manager at the French Cultural Center in Boston. She graduated from Skidmore College.
She is the daughter of Deborah R. Hanley and Francis D. McGuire Jr. of Boston. The bride’s mother was a founding partner in Todreas/Hanley Associates, a retail development and consulting firm that was in Boston, and then was a stay-at-home parent. She is a member of the president’s council of the New England Conservatory. The bride’s father is an architect in Boston, and a co-chairman of the Beacon Hill Civic Association’s architectural committee.
Mr. Zook, 32, is the lead marketing associate at Payne-Bouchier, a Boston home builder. He graduated from Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., and received a master’s degree in classical acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
He is a son of Donna J. Robinson and Christopher J. Zook of Chestnut Hill, Mass. The groom’s mother is a gallery instructor at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, a member of the board of advisers for the Huntington Theater and an overseer of the Boston Ballet. His father is an advisory partner in Bain & Company, and oversaw the Boston management consultancy’s strategy practice for 20 years. He is also an author of “The Founders’ Mentality” (Harvard Business Review Press, 2016).
The couple met in 2010 at the wedding of a mutual family friend in Brookline, Mass.