Jesse Keith Oxfeld and William Christopher Strasser were married Sept. 21 at the Deer Mountain Inn in Tannersville, N.Y. Michael Barbaro, host of the New York Times podcast “The Daily,” who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated.

Mr. Oxfeld (left), 43, is the director of executive communications for Pace University in New York. He is also a freelance theater critic and a founder of New York Stage Review, a digital publication. He graduated from Stanford.

He is a son of Ellen Oxfeld and Sanford Oxfeld of West Orange, N.J. Mr. Oxfeld’s father is the managing partner of Oxfeld Cohen, a law firm in Newark. His mother retired as a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker in Livingston, N.J.

Mr. Strasser, 32, is a software engineer for Oscar Health, a health insurance company in New York. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.