Tara Colleen Corrigan and Brian John Paul were married Sept. 6 at St. Augustine Church in Washington. The Rev. Patrick A. Smith, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony. On Sept. 7, Hermoine Randolph, a friend of the couple, led a nondenominational ceremony at Long View Gallery, an art gallery in Washington.

The couple met at Duke, from which each received an M.B.A.

The bride, 33, is the chief operating officer at the Messina Group, a political and business consulting firm in Washington. She previously was as an associate director of intergovernmental affairs at the White House for President Barack Obama. She is a board member of the Rosedale Freedom Project, a nonprofit organization committed to the empowerment of middle and high school students in the Mississippi Delta through academic, arts and leadership training. She graduated from Northwestern.

She is the daughter of Nancy J. Corrigan and David F. Corrigan of Toms River, N.J. The bride’s father is a lawyer in private practice in Keyport, N.J. Her mother retired as a teacher at Joseph A. Citta Elementary in Toms River.

The groom, 29, is the senior brand manager, in Richmond, Va., for IQOS, a tobacco device made by Phillip Morris International. He graduated from the University of Virginia.