William Samuel Kramer II and Peter Edward Cipkowski were married July 27 at Gedney Farm in New Marlborough, Mass. Brenda Shufelt, a childhood friend of Mr. Cipkowski who received a one-day solemnization certificate from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, officiated.
Mr. Kramer (left), 51, is the vice president for development at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the performing arts center. Until 2016, he was the managing director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and received a Master of Urban Planning from N.Y.U.
He is the son of Joanne E. Kramer of Perry Hall, Md., and Glenn W. Kramer of Houston. The groom’s mother retired as an administrator with the liver transplant program at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. His father retired as the president of Network Security Services, a software consulting and management firm that was based in Houston, of which he was a founder.
Mr. Cipkowski, 59, is the town supervisor of Hillsdale, N.Y., in Columbia County, and an educational technology consultant. He graduated from Bard College and received a master’s degree in education focusing on the history of education and instructional design from Carnegie Mellon University.
He is a son of the late Ruth E. Cipkowski and the late Joseph A. Cipkowski, who lived in Copake Falls, N.Y. The groom’s parents owned and operated the Taconic Wayside Inn in Copake Falls.
The couple, who never really went on dating apps, met in March 2017 after trying Tinder, which geographically brought them together in Providence, R.I. Mr. Kramer, who lived in Brooklyn, was there as a consultant at the Rhode Island School of Design and Mr. Cipkowski, who lived in Hillsdale, was speaking at an educational technology conference at Brown.
