Pooja Patel and Alastair Eric Rami were married Feb. 22 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Angel L. Lopez, a staff member of the city clerk’s office, officiated. On March 5, Jacob Ritter, an interfaith minister, is to lead the couple in an exchange of vows in a ceremony on the beach at the Phi Phi Island Village Beach Resort on Ko Phi Phi Island, Thailand.
Ms. Patel, 30, works as a director of legal affairs at Glossier, a cosmetics company in New York. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland and received a law degree from Harvard.
She is a daughter of Margi Patel and Navin J. Patel of Gaithersburg, Md. The bride’s father is an independently contracted software engineer for United States Customs and Border Protection in Alexandria, Va. The bride’s mother is a division chief at the Department of Defense in Arlington, Va.
Mr. Rami, 34, works as a team lead at Bridgewater Associates, an investment firm in Westport, Conn. He previously served as the deputy chief of staff and legislative director to Representative Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas. He graduated from Northwestern and received an M.B.A. from Stanford.
He is a son of Angela A. Rami and Anand C. Rami of Vancouver, Wash. The groom’s father works in Vancouver as the president of Silicon Innovation, a firm that advises companies that manufacture polysilicon.
The couple met in 2012 at a bar in Washington while both were graduate students.
