Sarah Busch and Brandon Neal were married Aug. 21 in an outdoor ceremony at Ragged Point, Calif., on the Big Sur coast. Khue Ngo, the bride's best friend who became a minister with American Marriage Ministries for the event, officiated in English and German.

The bride, 30, is the digital strategy director at Aperture Investors, an asset management start-up company in New York. She graduated from Fresenius University, in Cologne, Germany, and received a master’s degree in global affairs, with distinction, from N.Y.U.

She is the daughter of Franziska Busch and Rolf-Lothar Manski-Busch of Cologne. The bride’s father retired as the owner of a painting and decoration firm in Cologne that bore his name. Her mother retired as the head of marketing and sales at HGK RheinCargo, a harbor and freight transportation company, also in Cologne.

The groom, 38, is a senior staff member on the markets desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He focuses on strategic planning, in concert with the Treasury Department, and is responsible for managing the New York operation of the United States Treasury Auction. He also serves as vice chairman of the Institutional Asset Management Committee of the Chartered Financial Analyst Society of New York. He graduated from Ohio State University.