Madeline Noto Wachtel and Charles Forster-Anderson were married Aug. 31 at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. Martin Gorrick, a friend of the groom who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated.
The bride, 28, is the director of strategic projects for the Billion Oyster Project, a nonprofit organization working to restore a sustainable oyster population to New York Harbor. She graduated from Cornell, and is a candidate for a master’s degree in food studies at N.Y.U.
She is the daughter of Katherine Noto of New York and William B. Wachtel of Chappaqua, N.Y. The bride’s father is a founder and senior partner in Wachtel Missry, a law firm in New York. The bride is the stepdaughter of Ann Zabar; her family runs the Zabar’s deli in Manhattan.
The groom, who is also 28 and works in New York, is a rights manager at the Universal Music Group, where he works in business and legal affairs. He graduated from Sydney University in Australia, and received a law degree from University of Technology Sydney.
He is the son of Peta Forster and Mark Anderson of Sydney. His father is a barrister at Frederick Jordan Chambers in Sydney; his mother manages Mr. Anderson’s practice there.
The couple met in 2011 in Sydney, where the bride was studying abroad and the groom grew up and lived.
