Cadence Elizabeth Willse and Simon Freyaldenhoven were married July 1, in a self-uniting ceremony in their apartment in Philadelphia. On July 6, Jerome F. Marston Jr., a friend of the couple, led another ceremony at the Pousada Castelo Palmela, a hotel in Palmela, Portugal.
In September, Dr. Willse, 32, is to begin as a postdoctoral scholar, studying the role of philanthropy in American politics and the educational system at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford. She graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and received both a master’s degree, in urban education policy, and a doctoral degree, in May, in political science, from Brown.
She is the daughter of Linda J. Willse of Weymouth, Mass., and Charles E. Willse of Ipswich, Mass.
Dr. Freyaldenhoven, 29, is a machine-learning economist in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia, where he develops novel statistical tools to analyze complex data sets. He graduated and received a master’s degree, in econometrics and operations research, from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, and received a doctoral degree in economics from Brown.
He is the son of Anne E. Mueller-Freyaldenhoven and Udo J. Freyaldenhoven, both of Langerwehe, Germany.
The couple met while studying in the Rockefeller Library at Brown in 2014, when the groom asked the bride to take a break and grab a cup of coffee with him.
