Avery Sophia Daley McNeil and Daniel Zachary Kay were married June 29 at Willow Ridge Farm in Putnam Valley, N.Y. David E. McCraw, the deputy general counsel at The New York Times who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated.
The couple are each criminal defense lawyers at the Bronx Defenders in the South Bronx, a nonprofit organization that provides free legal representation. She is also the specialist in alternatives to incarceration, and he also supervises and trains new lawyers.
Ms. McNeil, 33, graduated from Columbia and received a law degree from N.Y.U.
She is a daughter of Suzanne Daley of Manhattan and Donald G. McNeil Jr. of Brooklyn. The bride’s parents both work at The Times. Her father is a science reporter covering global health. Her mother is the associate managing editor for international print, and from 2005 to 2010 was the national editor.
Mr. Kay, 30, graduated magna cum laude from Amherst College and received a law degree from Vanderbilt.
He is the son of Dr. Marilyn C. Kay and Dr. Jonathan Kay, both of Madison, Wis. The groom’s parents both work at the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. His mother, a neuro-ophthalmologist, is an associate professor of ophthalmology. His father, a cardiac anesthesiologist, is an associate professor of anesthesiology.
The couple collided several times rushing about their office, and in spring 2015 stood still long enough and formally met in criminal court just after Mr. Kay defended a client before a judge, and Ms. McNeil was waiting for her case to be called. About two weeks later he stopped by her cubicle to ask her out, and they had their first date at a restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
