Gillian May Boeve and David Dillon Bryson were married Sept. 22 at the Sonoma Valley Worm Farm in Sonoma, Calif. The Rev. Timothy J. Boeve, the bride’s father and a minister of the United Church of Christ, officiated, with Harriet Barlow, a friend of the couple, leading them through their vows.
Ms. Boeve, 34, is known as May. She is the executive director of 350.org, a climate-advocacy organization of which she is a founder; she works in its Oakland, Calif., office. She is also an author of “Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community” (Holt, 2007). She graduated from Middlebury College.
She is the daughter of Gillian G. Hunting of Pasadena, Calif., and Mr. Boeve of Ajijic, Mexico. The bride’s father retired from the chaplaincy at the Sonoma Raceway, a motor sports complex. Her mother is the author of “Finding Pete: Rediscovering the Brother I Lost in Vietnam” (Wesleyan University Press, 2009). The bride is the stepdaughter of Noris Binet and Robert H. Aicher.
The bride is a direct descendant of William Huntington Russell, who was a founder of the Skull & Bones society at Yale and is the namesake of the entity that manages its affairs and owns its real estate, the Russell Trust Association.
Mr. Bryson, 36, is a consultant, working on an enrollment project for charter schools in Richmond, Calif., for the Chamberlin Family Foundation, which is also in Richmond. He graduated from Wesleyan University, and received a master’s degree in curriculum instruction and out-of-school time from Lesley University.
He is a son of Kathleen Carroll Bryson and David C. Bryson of Boston. The groom’s father is the executive vice president and general counsel of the Endurance International Group, a web-hosting company in Burlington, Mass. His mother retired as a reading specialist at the Underwood School in Newton, Mass.
The couple was introduced in 2008 in Napa, Calif., by a mutual friend, and began dating in 2011.
