Lauren Elizabeth Baer and Emily Margalit Meyers were married in New York Saturday evening by Rabbi Bruce S. Warshal, with Cantor Lori Corrsin taking part. The ceremony was held at Temple Emanu-El, where Ms. Baer’s paternal great-granduncle, the late Dr. Julius Mark, was the senior rabbi from 1948 to 1977.

Ms. Baer (left), 33, is on the secretary of state’s policy planning staff at the State Department in Washington. She advises on the development of foreign policy related to democracy, human rights and international law. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and received a master’s degree in development studies from the University of Oxford, where she was a Marshall scholar. She also has a law degree from Yale.

She is a daughter of Nancy F. Baer and Richard B. Baer of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. Her father is a founder and the chief operating officer of the American Commercial Realty Corporation, which is based in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Ms. Meyers, 32, is a lawyer with the enforcement division of the Federal Election Commission in Washington. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown and received a law degree from Columbia.