Kelsey Renee Rhodes and Jeremy Alton Brill were married Sept. 22 at the Avalon Hotel and Bungalows Palm Springs in Palm Springs, Calif. Donald English, who was designated a deputy commissioner for civil marriage by the San Diego County recorder for the occasion, officiated.
The bride and groom met at the University of Michigan, from which each graduated, and from which the groom also received a master’s degree in physiology.
The bride, 26, who works in San Diego, manages the communications for Physicians for Reproductive Health, a nonprofit health care organization based in New York.
She is a daughter of Sonia R. Rhodes and Scott P. Rhodes of San Diego. The bride’s father works from San Diego as a sales consultant for the Batesville Casket Company in Batesville, Ind. Her mother is the founder and the chief experience officer, in San Diego, of the Experience Lab, a firm working to find techniques that improve hospital culture and health care experiences for employees and patients.
The groom, 28, also works for the Experience Lab, where he creates ways to improve hospital culture.
He is a son of Carolyn A. Brill and Dr. David A. Brill of Mystic, Conn. His mother is a volunteer event coordinator for Enders Island, a nonprofit organization in Mystic that offers religious retreats and a drug and alcohol recovery program. His father is a cardiologist in the Waterford, Conn., office of the Northeast Medical Group, a subsidiary of Yale New Haven Health, working at the Lawrence and Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn.