Robin Sarah April Foerster Cameron and Gary William Webb were married Aug. 10 in Randolph, Vt. Mariah Dekkenga, who received permission from the state of Vermont to officiate, led the ceremony in her home, which she owns with Mike Perrone, both friends of the couple.
The bride, 38, and groom, 32, are both visual artists based in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Ms. Cameron is to be showing a kinetic hanging sculpture called Movement VII as part of Motion & Motive, a group show from Sept. 5 to Oct. 12 at Susan Hobbs Gallery in Toronto. Mr. Webb will be a part of a group show opening Oct. 15 at the Pompidou Center in Paris, where seven of his photograms will be on display before entering the museum’s permanent collection.
The bride graduated from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada, and received a Master of Fine Arts in studio art from Columbia. She was also a visiting professor at Cornell in the spring.
She is the daughter of Susan M. Cameron and Walter A. Cameron of Oro-Medonte, Ontario, Canada. The bride’s father retired as a high school science teacher at Archbishop Denis O’Connor Catholic High School in Ajax, Ontario. Her mother, also retired, was a nurse and a coordinator at Community Care Access Center in Whitby, Ontario.
The groom, who is 32 and known as G. William, graduated from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and received an M.F.A. in studio art from N.Y.U.
He is the son of Gary N. Webb of Blue Grass, Iowa, and the late Cindy Webb. The groom’s father, a racecar driver, was inducted into the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame in Florence, Ky., in 2008. The groom’s mother retired as an assistant to the sheriff at the Scott County Sheriff’s Department in Davenport, Iowa. Upon her retirement, she owned and operated a consignment shop in the Village of East Davenport. (Her presence was felt at the wedding ceremony in the form of a foot-high apple seedling carried down the aisle by the groom’s father; the plant grew from the seeds of an apple that was found in her purse after she had died.)
Ms. Cameron and Mr. Webb met in 2012 while each was exhibiting at Room East Gallery on the Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where Mr. Webb had lived, and became close friends while spending time in the same artist circles.
Although they were both dating other people at that time, Ms. Cameron, who lived in Chinatown, had an immediate crush on Mr. Webb. “He was very charismatic and friendly,” she said.
Mr. Webb decided it was best that they remained friends, and Ms. Cameron settled on becoming a pen pal, often writing Mr. Webb letters when he traveled for business. By the summer of 2015, both Ms. Cameron and Mr. Webb were single, and they soon turned a romantic corner, enjoying picnics together, days at the beach and nights dancing at clubs.
Ms. Cameron was ready to settle into a long-term relationship. Mr. Webb was not. “She was six years older than me,” he said. “I just wasn’t ready to make that kind of commitment.”
Ms. Cameron, angered by Mr. Webb’s decision, decided to “put down some hard boundaries,” as she put it. “I’m either going to be your girlfriend,” she told him, “or we are not going to be friends at all.”
Mr. Webb, albeit heartbroken, refused to commit, and their relationship went dark for more than six months. “Robin told me that we would make a great team, and to call her if I ever changed my mind about being serious with her,” he said.
By the time Mr. Webb made that call, in June 2016, Ms. Cameron was dating another man who wanted to marry her. “I finally began to understand the power of our friendship that Robin had understood all along,” Mr. Webb said.
He invited her to a picnic in Central Park, where he professed his love for her before asking her to leave the man she had been dating. She broke off that relationship.
The next month, Ms. Cameron and Mr. Webb went on a camping trip to the Catskill Mountains, “where we both did some serious reflecting together,” Ms. Cameron said, “and realized we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together.”
