Cynthia Anne Schmitt and Tracie Lynn Palmer were married in a self-uniting ceremony on Nov. 9 in the auditorium of the Bok Building, a former technical high school converted into retail and studio spaces, in Philadelphia. Heather Marg Bracken, a meditation teacher of the couple, led the ceremony incorporating Buddhist traditions.
Ms. Schmitt (left), 42, who is taking the name Palmer, is a senior engagement manager at EY Design Studio PHL, a user experience digital design firm in Philadelphia. She graduated from Drexel University.
She is a daughter of Susan P. Fratoni of Doylestown, Pa., and the late Francis C. Schmitt, who lived in Philadelphia. Ms. Schmitt’s mother retired as a financial services consultant in Philadelphia and New York. Her father, an accountant, was a financial services executive in Philadelphia. The bride is a stepdaughter of the late Albert R. Fratoni Jr., a real estate developer who was a managing director of the Gemstone Property Group in New York.
Ms. Palmer, 35, is a trial lawyer and a partner in Kline & Specter, a law firm in Philadelphia. She graduated cum laude from Harvard, and received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is the daughter of Kimberly A. Palmer and Jeffrey C. Palmer of North Easton, Mass. Ms. Palmer’s father is the senior vice president of Work ‘N Gear, a specialty retail chain in Quincy, Mass., focusing on work apparel, footwear and health care apparel. Her mother is based in North Easton as an owner, along with the bride’s younger twin brothers, of a specialty wholesale gift and toy company.
Ms. Palmer’s previous marriage ended in divorce.
The couple met in 2017 at a mutual friend’s birthday party in Philadelphia, and began dating in April 2018.
