Melanie Rachel Baevsky and Adam Kahn Besvinick were married Oct. 20 at the Brae Burn Country Club in Purchase, N.Y. Rabbi Eytan Hammerman officiated.
The bride, 29, is a director on NBCUniversal’s digital partnerships team in New York. In 2011, she was the first account coordinator on the sales team in the New York office of Twitter, the social media company in San Francisco. She graduated from Cornell.
She is a daughter of Andrea S. Baevsky and Jeffrey M. Baevsky of Harrison, N.Y. Her father is the senior managing director of finance at Greystone, a national real estate lending, property ownership, and advisory firm in New York. Her mother is a reading specialist and private tutor.
The groom, 31, is a venture capitalist at the Anchorage Capital Group, a hedge fund in New York. He graduated cum laude from Duke and received an M.B.A. from Harvard.
He is the son of Elizabeth W. Besvinick and Mitchell H. Besvinick of Newtown Square, Pa. His mother is the director of finance at InnoBenefits, a corporate benefits consulting firm in Newtown Square. His father is the founder and the president of the firm.
The couple met in October 2014 when the groom commented on a mutual friend’s Twitter thread the bride was engaged in. She was intrigued and asked the friend to make an introduction. They had their first date at El Quinto Pino, a Spanish restaurant in New York.
