Kelly Marie Roberts and James Crawford Downie were married Sept. 15 at St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Washington. The Rev. Kevin Kennedy, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony.
The bride, 29, is a financial institution and policy analyst for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington. She graduated magna cum laude at the University of South Carolina and received a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Maryland.
She is a daughter of Joanne Arnold Roberts and Ray L. Roberts of Hillsboro, Tex. The bride’s father is the dean of students and an instructor in environmental management at Hill College in Burleson, Tex. Her mother is a professor and chair of the sociology department at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Tex.
The groom, 30, is the digital opinions editor for The Washington Post, covering politics and policy. He graduated from Columbia.
He is a son of Mary P. Crawford and Brian T. Downie of Washington. The groom’s mother teaches Latin at Washington Episcopal School, a private elementary school in Bethesda, Md. His father is the senior vice president of the B.F. Saul Company, a private real estate firm in Bethesda.
The couple were introduced by Helen Knight, a college classmate of the bride, in July 2012 in Washington after the groom answered a Craigslist ad by Ms. Knight, who was looking for a roommate.
