Elizabeth Alice Mercer and Edward Austin Belcak were married Sept. 22. The Rev. Robert Mitchell performed the ceremony at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church in Chatham, N.J.
Ms. Belcak, 29, is known as Lily. She is a marketing manager at Health Recovery Solutions, a health care technology company in Hoboken, N.J. She graduated cum laude from Villanova, received a master’s degree in human nutrition and a doctoral degree in physical therapy, with honors, from Columbia.
She is the daughter of Dr. Geraldine O. Mercer and Dr. J. Stephen Mercer of Chatham. The bride’s father, an anesthesiologist, is on the staff at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Her mother, a pathologist, is a partner in Morristown Pathology Associates, a group medical practice in Morristown, N.J.
Mr. Belcak, 27, is known as Austin. He works in New York as a manager for advertising relationships at Microsoft; he is also a consultant to people looking to find technology jobs who lack traditional experience. He graduated from Wake Forest University.
He is the son Ghislaine Austin Belcak and Edward J. Belcak of Cashiers, N.C. The groom’s mother retired as a senior investments director in the wealth management division, in Atlanta, of Wells Fargo, the San Francisco bank. His father, a chemical engineer, is retired. He designed and sold industrial pumps used in wastewater management, and worked in Atlanta.
Friends who thought Ms. Mercer and Mr. Belcak would make a good match invited them out to a double-date dinner in 2014, but the two didn’t interact much and the dinner ended without an exchange of numbers. A year later, the same friends engineered a second, more successful introduction, and this time, the couple hit it off. “I guess they were convinced we had to meet,” Ms. Mercer said.
