Robert Tyler Ford and Dmitriy Tishyevich were married Sept. 22 at Park Avenue Autumn, an events space in New York. Connor Kuratek, a Universal Life minister and friend of the couple, officiated.
The couple met at Harvard, from which Mr. Ford graduated and also received a law degree and Mr. Tishyevich received a law degree cum laude.
Mr. Ford (left), 35, is the associate director of academic counseling and student engagement at Columbia Law School.
He is the son of Tammy D. Ford of San Antonio and the late David L. Ford, who also lived there. Mr. Ford’s mother, who works in San Antonio, is an education and outreach program manager for the Army, for which she served in active duty from 1978-81. She was last stationed as a specialist at Madigan Army Medical Center in Fort Lewis, Wash. His father, a retired Army licensed vocational nurse, was last stationed at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. Mr. Ford is the stepson of Toni Williams, a retired Air Force registered nurse.
Mr. Tishyevich, also 35, is a partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis, the Chicago law firm. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
He is the son of Nina Tishyevich and Gennadiy Tishyevich of San Mateo, Calif. His mother retired as an accounting clerk in San Francisco. His father retired as an engineer at Hitek International, a manufacturer of optical instruments in Redwood City, Calif.
