Melissa Anne Loder and Bethany Anne Gostanian were married Sept. 3 at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, N.Y. Jeremy Carpenter, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated.
Ms. Loder (left), 36, works in New York as a senior product manager in the news experience product group at The New York Times; she has worked on projects redesigning the home page and the Morning Briefing newsletter. She graduated from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
She is a daughter of Gwenn Loder and Edward Loder of Pocono Pines, Pa. Ms. Loder’s father, who is retired, was previously the owner of East End Drywall, a construction company in Westhampton, N.Y. Her mother, who is also retired, worked in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., as a staff member of the Board of Cooperative Educational Services, where she worked with developmentally disabled children.
Ms. Gostanian, 32, is a vice president for data and insights at VidMob, a company that creates social video ads in New York. She graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, and received a master’s degree in classical archaeology at the University of Oxford.
She is the daughter of Kathleen M. Gostanian and Gregory M. Gostanian of Sunset, S.C. Ms. Gostanian’s father is a principal consultant at Clear Rock, an executive consulting firm that he co-founded in Boston. Her mother, who is retired, is a founder of the Wyndham Group, an executive search and career development firm that she helped found and managed with Mr. Gostanian.
The couple met in 2015 through Tinder and bonded over their mutual love of travel.
