Nicole Louise Gill and Benjamin Nathan Feit were married Aug. 17 at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation in Waltham, Mass. A friend of the couple, James R. Obergefell, who is a Universal Life minister and the named plaintiff in the lawsuit that led the United States Supreme Court to legalize same-sex marriage, officiated.
Ms. Gill, 34, is the director of strategic communications and external affairs in Watertown, Mass., office of Pathfinder International, a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health services. (She met Mr. Obergefell in January 2015 while providing strategic communications for national marriage equality campaigns.) Ms. Gill graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, and received a master’s degree in public administration from N.Y.U.
The bride is the daughter of Susan C. Jewell of Little Britain, Ontario, and the late Charles C. Gill.
Mr. Feit, 35, works in Boston as an education law and policy specialist for the Community Training and Assistance Center, a nonprofit group that provides policy support, technical assistance, and evaluation services for education organizations. He graduated from Yale and received a law degree from Duke University School of Law. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in education leadership from Columbia.
The groom is a son of Jo-Ann C. Feit and Dr. Richard H. Feit of Newton, Mass.
The couple met for the first time in 2012 in New York on a blind date set up by a mutual former colleague. They went on two dates, and then lost touch. Five years later, after both had moved from New York to Washington, they reconnected on the social media platform LinkedIn.
