Andrew Ray Yee Lim and David Richard Crawford were married Sept. 29 at the Religious Society of Friends a Quaker meetinghouse in Manhattan. Susannah Evelyn Crawford, an ordained minister with American Marriage Ministries and a sister of Mr. Crawford, officiated.
Mr. Lim (left), 32, is the director of quantitative research at New American Economy, a nonprofit organization based in Manhattan that was founded by former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York. The organization is dedicated to building consensus in immigration and immigrant integration issues. He graduated from Boston College, and received two master’s degrees, both in regional and urban planning, from the London School of Economics and Sciences Po-Paris as part of a double degree program.
He is a son of Milagros Yee Lim and Raymond Leung Lim of Valley Stream, N.Y. His mother, who works in College Point, Queens, is an assistant to the assistant executive director of AABR, a direct service provider to individuals with developmental disabilities. His father retired in June as a senior computer programmer at IBM in Jersey City.
Mr. Crawford, who is 29 and works in Manhattan, is a digital strategy manager at Accenture, the management consulting and professional services firm that provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations services.
He graduated from a dual degree program in geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National University of Singapore. He also received a master’s degree in international development from the University of Manchester in England.
He is the son of Anne Elizabeth Crawford and Richard Bertram Crawford of Cornelius, N.C. His mother is the founder and director of Caterpillar Ministries, a nonprofit organization, which is based in Huntersville, N.C., serving low-income and immigrant children in the greater Charlotte, N.C., area. His father is a procurement executive at Accenture in Charlotte.
Mr. Crawford is also a direct descendant of Mary Dyer, an early Quaker martyr who was hanged in Boston Commons in 1660. To reflect this heritage, the couple designed their ceremony to take place in a traditional Quaker meeting house and incorporated aspects of Quaker silent worship into the proceedings.
The couple met on OkCupid in March 2015.
