Catherine Diktynna Talbot Wiener and Riley Scripps Ford were married Oct. 26. Associate Judge Rowan D. Wilson of the New York Court of Appeals officiated at the New York Public Library. Anne Fadiman, a college mentor of the groom, gave a reading.
The couple met at Yale, from which both graduated cum laude, and from which he also received an M.B.A.
Mrs. Ford, 26, is a law clerk for Judge Wilson. She received in May a law degree, also cum laude, from Harvard.
She is a daughter of Carolyn Seely and Malcolm H. Wiener of Greenwich, Conn. The bride’s father retired as the founder of the Millburn Ridgefield Corporation, an investment manager in New York. He is a founder of the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, which has offices in Philadelphia, and his area of research is primarily Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean civilizations. He is also a trustee emeritus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Her mother retired as a counsel in Washington to the Republican leader of the Senate, then Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, and had been a partner, also in Washington, in Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, a law firm. She is an overseer of Weill Cornell Medicine and is the chairwoman of the Foundation for a Civil Society, both in New York.
Mr. Ford, 30, is an associate analyst at the Select Equity Group, a hedge fund in New York.
He is a son of Laurie L. Ford and James W. Ford of Harbor Springs, Mich. The groom’s mother was a fifth-grade teacher at Shay Elementary School in Harbor Springs before becoming a stay-at-home parent, and is now the shipping and receiving manager at Between the Covers, a bookstore in Harbor Springs. His father retired as the chief financial officer of Evening Star Joinery, a custom homebuilder in Harbor Springs, and is now the vice president and a trustee of the Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation.
The groom is also a great-great-grandson of George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth, who were instrumental in the early success of The Detroit News, which was founded by the father of Ellen Scripps Booth.
The couple met in 2010 at Yale, when Ms. Wiener was visiting colleges and Mr. Ford, then a senior at Yale, was the student with whom she had an interview.
