Scott Ryan Friesen and Alexander Wickersham Davenport were married Sept. 22 outside the Lime Kiln Lighthouse on San Juan Island, Wash. Sandra L. Scott, Mr. Friesen’s maternal aunt who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated.
Mr. Friesen (left), 32, is a strategic partner manager at Google in London. He graduated with honors from Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
He is a son of Brenda J. Scott and Donald E. Friesen of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Mr. Friesen’s mother retired as a physical therapist from Foothills Hospital in Calgary. His father retired as the president of Hazco Environmental Services, a contracting company in Calgary focusing on environmental remediation, of which he was a founder.
Mr. Davenport, also 33, is a product marketing manager at Facebook in London. He graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown, and received an M.B.A. from Harvard.
He is the son of Susan Wickersham Davenport of Seattle, and the late Dr. Bruce M. Davenport. Mr. Davenport’s mother retired as a manager of community geriatric care programs from the VA Puget Sound Health Care System there, and now does consulting as a licensed clinical social worker in Seattle. His father was a dentist in private practice, also in Seattle.
The couple were introduced by a co-worker in 2013 while having lunch at Google in London, and soon began dating. On their fifth anniversary Mr. Friesen surprised Mr. Davenport with a trip to Barra, Scotland, a remote island in the Outer Hebrides, and after they debarked from an 18-seat DeHavilland turboprop on a sandy beach, Mr. Friesen handed him a boarding pass for a more personal leg of the journey. The destination line read: Marriage.
