Natalie Claire Heer and Jeremy Stein Cushman are to be married Sept. 1. Rabbi Aliza G. Berger is to officiate at the Calhoun Beach Club in Minneapolis.
The couple met at a wine and cheese party for members of the Gilbert & Sullivan Players at Harvard, from which both graduated. She was a costume designer for the group and he was the concertmaster of the orchestra.
Dr. Heer, 29, is a data scientist in the business-to-business division at Wayfair, a Boston home-goods e-commerce company. She received a doctoral degree in biology from M.I.T., where she researched the mechanical forces in fruit-fly embryo development.
She is a daughter of Jody A. Copp and John W. Heer of Edina, Minn. The bride’s father is the director for system operations in the natural-gas business unit of CenterPoint Energy, a utility; he works in the Minneapolis office. Her mother was an auditor at the Burlington Northern Railroad in St. Paul before becoming a stay-at-home parent.
Dr. Cushman, 28, is a software engineer at Optimus Ride, a Boston company that develops self-driving cars that operate in restricted areas; he manages the company’s mapping team. He is also a violinist, and performs with the Boston Civic Symphony. He received a doctoral degree in physics from Yale, where he researched ultrarare nuclear decays.
He is the son of Elissa Stein Cushman and Steven S. Cushman of Little Neck, Queens. The groom’s mother is the general counsel and the deputy commissioner for legal affairs at New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection in Elmhurst, Queens. His father is an executive assistant corporation counsel in the New York City Law Department in Manhattan.
