Dr. Lillian Macrae Guenther and Brian Jeffrey Meyers are to be married on Sept. 2 in Richmond, Va. Rabbi Rachel A. Silverman is to officiate at Maymont Estate, an events space.
Dr. Guenther, 35, is a pediatric oncologist in Boston on the staff at both Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she also is a researcher, studying novel therapeutics for pediatric bone tumors. She is also a clinical pediatrics instructor for residents and fellows at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
She graduated from Brown and received a medical degree from SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.
She is a daughter of Katherine F. Doyle in Larchmont, N.Y., and Hector I. Guenther of Osterville, Mass. The bride’s father retired from the New York office of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, where he served as the executive director for consumer, retail and business services banking. Her mother is a freelance grant writer and fund-raiser.
Mr. Meyers, 33, leads the product management team for pricing algorithms at Wayfair, a furniture and décor catalog and online retailer in Boston. He graduated and received an M.B.A. from Dartmouth.
He is the son of Janet Slipow Meyers and Stanley H. Meyers of Richmond. The groom’s mother retired as an English literature teacher at Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School, a public high school in Richmond. His father retired as a buyer for the Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company, which was in Richmond.
The couple met in 2016, in Boston, at a celebration that mutual friends were having for the Jewish holiday of Purim. They gravitated toward each other as they were among the few who were not dressed up for the occasion. “She was more interested in talking to me because she is not a costume person, and I was not in costume,” he said. Two weeks later, they had a first date.
