Effie Olayinka Johnson and Adetola Oluwagbenga Ladejobi were married April 27 at the West End United Methodist Church in Nashville. The Rev. Brandon Baxter, a United Methodist minister, performed the ceremony, with the Rev. Battle Beasley, an Episcopal priest, taking part. On April 26, the couple and their families participated in a traditional engagement ceremony, incorporating the Sierra Leonean traditions of the bride’s family and the Nigerian traditions of the groom’s family, at the home of the bride’s parents in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The bride, 32, is a compliance officer at S&P Global Ratings, a financial services agency based in New York. She is a trustee of the Webb School, a private boarding and day school in Bell Buckle, Tenn. She graduated from Harvard and received a master’s degree in public administration from N.Y.U. and a master’s degree in education from Columbia.
Ms. Johnson is the daughter of Newtona A. Johnson and Clarence S. Johnson of Murfreesboro. The bride’s father is a professor of philosophy at the Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, where the bride’s mother also works as a professor of English.
The groom, 37, who is known as Tola, is a cardiology fellow and instructor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He graduated from the University of Lagos in Lagos, Nigeria, and received a master’s degree in public health from Harvard.
Mr. Ladejobi is a son of Jumoke F. Ladejobi and Foluso B. Ladejobi of Lagos. The groom’s mother, who is retired, was a teacher at the University of Lagos Staff School. His father retired as a director of statistics at the National Bureau of Statistics in Abuja, Nigeria.
The couple met in 2015 at the Harvard Business School’s Africa Business Conference in Boston.
