Sarah Freeman Yager and Dr. James Richard Hamblin were married July 6 at the bride’s parents’ ranch outside Pryor, Mont. Jody Avirgan, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated.
The bride, 29, is a managing editor of The Atlantic in Washington; the groom, 36, is a staff writer for the magazine.
The bride graduated from Yale. She is the daughter of Melissa D. Yager and William A. Yager of Pryor. The bride’s parents raise cattle at their ranch.
The groom is also a lecturer at Yale, from which he received a master’s degree in public health. He is also the author of “If Our Bodies Could Talk,” (Doubleday, 2016). He graduated from Wake Forest and received a medical degree from Indiana University.
He is the son of Nancy L. Hamblin and Dr. James W. Hamblin of Munster, Ind. The groom’s mother is a founding board member of the Munster Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization that awards grants to teachers, administrators, parents and community members for new and innovative education experiences beyond what the current school budget can support. She is also a former elementary schoolteacher in the Indiana Public Schools system. The groom’s father is a dentist in private practice in Highland, Ind.
The couple met in the summer 2012 while working at The Atlantic.
