Kiana Melrose Scott and Alexander Wolf Adams were married March 23 in a private ceremony at the West Point Light House at Discovery Park in Seattle. Hathaway Burden, a Universal Life minister and friend of the couple, officiated.

The bride, 33, and groom, 35, met at the University of Washington, from which she received a master of public administration degree, and both a master’s degree and Ph.D. in political communication, and he received a master’s degree in marine and environmental affairs.

The bride is a program director of the Tides Center, a nonprofit incubator in Seattle. She graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass.

She is a daughter of Martha Scott of San Juan Island, Wash.

The groom is a senior environmental program manager for the Port of Seattle. He graduated from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Mass.