Caroline Marie McWilliams Alsup and Justin Sumner Brown were married Nov. 3. The Rev. Jane Dryden Louis, a Universal Life minister and friend of the bride’s family, officiated in a park along the shores of Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Tex.
The couple, both architects, work at the MASS Design Group, a nonprofit architecture and design firm with offices in Boston and in Kigali, Rwanda. The bride is a senior architect and the groom is a principal at the firm.
Mrs. Brown, 31, graduated magna cum laude with a professional degree in architecture from Virginia Tech.
She is a daughter of Debora Beck Alsup and James M. Alsup of Austin. The bride’s father is a partner, in Austin, in Jackson Walker, a Dallas law firm. Her mother is of counsel in the Austin office of Thompson & Knight, another Dallas law firm. The bride’s biological father, the late John P. McWilliams, also lived in Austin and was a lawyer in private practice there.
Mr. Brown, 36, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard.
He is the son of Jenny Gerard Brown and Dr. Barry L. Brown of Manhattan. The groom’s father is the director of obstetrics and gynecology at Elmhurst Hospital in Elmhurst, Queens, and is an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive science at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in Manhattan.
The couple met in 2013 in Manhattan, in an elevator that was transporting them to the floor where both worked, at separate architectural firms. She had her bike with her, which, she said, was “single speed but chic” and she had made herself while still in college.
“I asked her how her ride was,” he remembered saying. Her recollection is a little different. “He complimented my bike,” the bride said. “He said it was less awkward than saying, ‘I like your face.’”
