Najah Woodby and Lawrence Omar Phillips were married Sept. 8 at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, Mass. Jordan Rice, the lead pastor of Renaissance Church in Harlem, officiated.
Ms. Phillips, 31, works in New York as a marketing manager for L’Oréal, the cosmetics company. She graduated from Emory and received a master’s degree in marketing and international business from Northwestern.
She is a daughter of Sharon A. Henry-Woodby of Bonita Springs, Fla., and the late Joseph A. Woodby. The bride’s father retired as a district manager in Princeton, N.J., for Westinghouse Security. Her mother retired as the vice president for global medical advocacy at Bristol-Myers Squibb, the pharmaceutical company in New York.
Mr. Phillips, 33, works in Warren, N.J., as a management consultant at Centerline Partners, a management consulting firm. He graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology.
He is a son of Marcia T. Phillips of Lithonia, Ga., and Lawrence D. Ramsay of Boston. His mother retired as a lead in the business office of Emory Healthcare, a hospital in Atlanta. His father is the owner of New England Mechanical, a construction business in Boston.
The couple met in 2011 in St. Charles, Ill., while attending professional training programs run by Accenture, a management consulting company for which they each worked.
