Emily Motayed and Chase Richard Lancaster were married Oct. 12 in Andalusia, Pa. Lindsay M. Costello, a Universal Brotherhood Movement minister, officiated at the Andalusia Historic House and Gardens. On Oct. 11, the couple had a ceremonial Hindu wedding that was led by Kamanshish Chakravorty, a friend of the bride’s family, at the Logan Hotel in Philadelphia.
The bride and groom met at the University of Pennsylvania, from which each received an M.B.A., he with honors.
Mrs. Lancaster, 31, is the chief of staff at Bread, a financial technology company in New York, and is also a founder of Havenly, an online interior design company in Denver. She graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt.
She is a daughter of Saswati Motayed and Asok K. Motayed of Potomac, Md. The bride’s father is the president of the NexGen Systems Corporation, an engineering consulting firm and is also a vice president of Veterans Engineering, an information-technology support-services consultancy, both in Derwood, Md. He is also a trustee of the Cultural Association of Bengal, which promotes Bengali culture and heritage and also hosts the annual North America Bengali Conference. The bride’s mother was a stay-at-home parent and is a now a community-service volunteer for the Greater Washington chapter of Sanskriti, another organization that promotes Bengali culture.
Mr. Lancaster, 32, is a vice president in the leveraged finance trading group of Morgan Stanley, the New York investment bank. He graduated from Duke.
He is a son of Kathleen M. Dahl of Tallahassee, Fla., and Dr. C. Steven Lancaster of Neptune Beach, Fla. The groom’s mother manages the charitable giving of her husband, James H. Dahl, the founder of Rock Creek Capital, a merchant bank in Jacksonville, Fla. The groom’s father is an optometrist at the Atlantic Eye Institute in Jacksonville, and his wife, Jeanne Lancaster, is an adjunct instructor in psychology at the Florida State College at Jacksonville.
