Zoë Amelia Barrett Guengerich and Connor James Dowd were married Sept. 1 at Ardoch House, a country house rented for the occasion in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
The Rev. Dr. Galen J. Guengerich, a Unitarian Universalist minister and the father of the bride, officiated, with Joshua T. Gumbley, a friend of the couple, taking part in the ceremony.
The couple met at the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, from which both graduated.
Ms. Guengerich, 25, is a medical-device analyst at Lumere, a Chicago health care technology company. She received a master’s degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Rochester.
She is also the daughter of Linda D. Barrett of St. Augustine, Fla. The bride’s mother is a senior educational consultant for the Great Books Foundation, which is in Chicago. The bride’s father, who lives in New York, is the senior minister of All Souls Unitarian Church there. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as is the bride’s stepmother, Dr. Holly G. Atkinson, a clinical professor of medicine at the City University of New York School of Medicine.
Mr. Dowd, 24, is studying for both an M.B.A. and a doctoral degree, in econometrics and statistics, at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
He is a son of Nancy E. Atwell and Timothy A. Dowd of Takoma Park, Md. The groom’s mother is a vice president for multifamily lending at Fannie Mae, the federal mortgage company, in Washington. His father is a senior economist for Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation, also in Washington.
The couple met in 2011, at a university ball at St. Andrews, and began dating in 2012.
