Adriana Xhakli and Perry Petra-Wong were married Sept. 14 at the TWA Hotel at JFK in Jamaica, Queens. Richard Desroche, a friend of the groom’s mother who was ordained through the American Marriage Ministries, officiated.

Ms. Xhakli, 31, who goes by Adri, is a property manager for her family’s mixed-used buildings in the Bronx. She graduated from N.Y.U. She is the daughter of Shpresa Xhakli and Rexh Xhakli of Cliffside Park, N.J.

Mr. Petra-Wong, 30, is a data scientist at Apple Media Products in Culver City, Calif. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the son of Christina F. Petra of South Bristol, Me., and Kenneth Wong of Manhattan.

In July 2012 Ms. Xhakli got an earful about Mr. Petra-Wong from her high school friend, Nick Boscamp. When he mentioned that Mr. Petra-Wong, his college friend, would be flying to New York from Los Angeles for a visit, she took for granted he would pick him up at the airport and offered the use of her SUV for what she thought would be later that week.