Stephanie Cristina Formas and Stephen Thomas Carter were married Dec. 31. Jenny A. Durkan, who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated at the Brake and Clutch Warehouse, an events space in Dallas.
Ms. Formas, 32, is the chief of staff for Ms. Durkan, who is the mayor of Seattle. The bride graduated from Baylor University.
She is the daughter of Patty Huber Formas of Waco, Tex.
Mr. Carter, 33, is a senior communications manager at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. He graduated from Whitman College, which is in Walla Walla, Wash.
He is a son of Gail Viseltear Carter of Virginia Beach and Donald F. Carter of Seattle.
The couple met and began dating in 2012 while working in Washington, both as regional press secretaries, for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
