Lauren Judith Trapido and Matthew Gregory Kaplan were married Aug. 24 in Groton, Conn. Keith A. Walters, a friend of the couple who was ordained by Open Ministry for this event, officiated at Branford House, an events venue on the campus of the University of Connecticut Avery Point.

Ms. Trapido Kaplan, 35, is the academic and student success specialist as well as the deputy Title IX coordinator at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, a performing arts postsecondary school in Manhattan. She graduated from Connecticut College and received a master’s degree in higher-education administration from Boston College.

She is a daughter of Nancy Sheinblatt Trapido and Dr. Michael M. Trapido of Manhattan. The bride’s father is a psychiatrist in private practice in Manhattan. Her mother is a college-access counselor at the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, a public high school in Manhattan, and was the founding guidance counselor and grant writer at the Collegiate Institute for Math and Science, a public high school in the Bronx.

Mr. Kaplan, also 35, is the product growth strategy and marketing leader, in Manhattan, in the renewable energy division of General Electric. He graduated from Wheaton College and received an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.