Julia Niles Ward and Bryant Anthony Rich were married Feb. 23 at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York. The Rev. Kate Dunn, a Presbyterian minister, officiated.
The bride, 32, is the manager of workplace strategy in New York for New York Road Runners. She graduated from Davidson College and received a masters of public administration in nonprofit management from N.Y.U.
She is a daughter of Nancy N.W. Ward and Alex Ward of New York. The bride’s father is the editorial director of book development at The New York Times. Her mother is the vice president and the managing director of the Independent Journalism Foundation in New York, which creates training centers for journalists in Eastern and Central Europe and Southeast Asia.
The groom, 34, is a vice president in the credit research group at Conning Asset Management in Hartford. He graduated from Bowdoin College and received an M.B.A. from Georgetown.
He is the son of Vanessa L. Bryant and Tracy L. Rich of Avon, Conn. The groom’s mother is a United States District Court judge in Hartford for the District of Connecticut. His father is a retired executive vice president and general counsel for the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, for which he now serves as of counsel to the company.
The couple met in October 2016 through the dating app Hinge.
