Caroline Grace Marra and Benjamin Caleb Hemani were married April 6 at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okla. Virginia Lanford Hemani, the mother of the groom who became a minister with American Marriage Ministries for the event, officiated.
The bride, 30, who was until April 2017 a life sciences consultant in Boston, is now studying for a Ph.D. in health policy and management at Harvard. She graduated from Vanderbilt and received a master of engineering management degree from Dartmouth.
She is a daughter of Cinda R. Marra and Mark J. Marra of Tulsa. The bride’s father is a Tulsa-based independent petroleum geologist. Her mother, a longtime grammar schoolteacher in New Jersey and Oklahoma, last taught remedial reading at Jenks High School in Tulsa.
The groom, 31, works in Seattle, where he manages the personal venture capital portfolio of Bill Gates, a founder of Microsoft. He graduated from Dartmouth.
He is a son of Ms. Hemani of Ipswich, Mass., and Dr. Sadruddin B. Hemani of Newburyport, Mass. The groom’s father is an otolaryngologist in private practice in Newburyport. His mother retired as an Episcopal chaplain at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
The couple met in September 2011 in Hanover, N.H., during the first day of orientation for their master’s program at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth.
