Page Shaw Goolrick and Mark Roland Ernst were married Sept. 14 at the Quinipet Camp and Retreat Center on Shelter Island, N.Y. Dr. Peter E. Gergely, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated.
The couple met at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, from which each received a master’s degree in architecture.
Ms. Goolrick, 64, is an architect and product designer at a firm bearing her name in New York. She graduated from the University of Connecticut.
She is the daughter of the late Elizabeth Shaw Goolrick, who lived in Washington, and the late William Kinloch Goolrick, who lived in New York, and the stepdaughter of Martha Turner Goolrick. The bride’s father and stepmother both worked at Time-Life Books. He was an editor of various series including the “Foods of the World” cookbook set, and writer of several books in the “The Civil War” and “World War II” series. Her stepmother was a researcher and writer. Her mother was a political and culture writer at Newsweek magazine in the 1950s.
Mr. Ernst, 66, is an architect, the president and a partner in Engberg Anderson Architects in Milwaukee. He graduated from the University of Miami in Ohio.
He is a son of the late Joyce Roland Ernst and the late Wayne C. Ernst, who lived in Sarasota, Fla. The groom’s mother was a stay-at-home parent. His father was a vice president and a chemical engineer at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, where he was head of the gelatin division.
The groom’s previous marriage ended in divorce.
The couple met in 1978 while Ms. Goolrick was pursuing a degree in architecture, and Mr. Ernst, who graduated earlier that year, was teaching a studio class. They dated for nearly a year before he was offered a job at CRS, an architectural firm in Houston, and a part-time teaching position at Rice. She said no when he proposed and asked her to join him. Over the years, they caught up at dinners with friends while at urban design or architectural conferences. When Mr. Ernst proposed again, 40 years later as they sat on a bench in Central Park, she said yes. “I was ready,” she said. “When you’re sharing, life is richer with another person.”
