Tracy Robin MacKenzie and Jason Tyler Mixter were married July 26 at Town Hall in Amenia, N.Y. Dawn Marie Klinger, the town clerk, officiated. On July 27, the couple took part in a celebration ceremony led by Andrew Karas, a friend of the couple, at Lion Rock Farm, an events space and working farm in Sharon, Conn.
The bride, 32, is the director of philanthropy at Standard Industries, a global industrial company in New York with interest in building materials. She graduated from Northwestern and received a master’s degree in education from George Mason University. She is also an alumna of Teach for America in Washington.
She is a daughter of Campbell Watts of Palermo, Me., and Douglas S. MacKenzie of San Francisco. The bride’s father is a partner in A. T. Kearney, a consulting firm based in Chicago. Her mother is a farmer and cider maker in Palermo who sits on the board of Hardy Girls, Healthy Women, a nonprofit organization empowering young women in Maine. The bride is also a stepdaughter of Laurie Hurley MacKenzie and John P. Bunker.
The groom, who is 35 and known as Tyler, is the vice president for research at Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, an investment firm in Manhattan. He graduated from Amherst College and received an M.B.A. from N.Y.U.
He is a son of Nancy Schaefer and Peter Mixter, both of New York. The groom’s mother is the managing partner in Consumer Dynamics, an innovation and branding firm in New York that she helped found. His father, who is retired, is a former managing director at Sanders Morris Harris, an investment firm in New York.
The couple were introduced in 2014 by a mutual friend and a former classmate of both their mothers through an email with the subject line: “A Meddling Mama and a Man.”
