Nancy Brous and Kurt Matthew Nelson were married Sept. 22 at Ramscale Studios in New York. Rabbi Lisa S. Greene officiated.
Ms. Brous, 50, is a freelance costume designer for film, television, theater, dance and opera, and is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 829 in New York. She is also a founder and a steering committee member of the New York City Water Trail Association, which operates a citizens’ water-quality testing program. She graduated from Brown and received an M.F.A. in theatrical design from N.Y.U.
She is a daughter of Barbara Biber Brous of New York and the late Philip Brous.
Mr. Nelson, 47, is the senior vice president for information technology and innovation at Marina Maher Communications, a public relations firm in New York. He graduated from the University of Illinois and received a certificate in executive information technology management from Columbia.
He is a son of John V. Nelson of Green Valley, Ariz., and the late Carol Ulmer Nelson.
Ms. Brous and Mr. Nelson met in 1998, when mutual friends in New York asked each of them to help out with cat-sitting, and they saw each other occasionally at social gatherings in the ensuing years. In 2014, after his first marriage had ended, their relationship took a romantic turn.
