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Sona Bajaria, Keith Barrett

Credit...Kumar Rao

Sona Hansraj Bajaria and Keith Kanute Barrett were married July 20 at the St. Priscilla Catholic Church in Livonia, Mich. The Rev. Theodore D’Cunha, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony. On July 21, Pandit Prasad Bhat performed a Hindu ceremony at the Henry Hotel in Dearborn, Mich.

The bride, 40, is a vice president for marketing in New York at Pernod Ricard, a French company that produces distilled beverages. She graduated from the University of Michigan and received an M.B.A. from Northwestern.

She is a daughter of Niranjana H. Bajaria of Dearborn Heights, Mich., and the late Dr. Hansraj J. Bajaria. The bride’s father was the president and founder of Multiface, an engineering and management consulting company in Garden City, Mich., and a co-author of the book “Statistical Problem Solving.”

The groom, also 40, is a product management leader at the software start-up Gusto in San Francisco. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, from which he also received a master’s degree in computer science.

He is a son of Myrtle M. Barrett of Palo Alto, Calif. and the late Oliver K. Barrett. The groom’s mother is retired and was a former research lab technician at Washington University. His father was the assistant general manager for Delhi Transport, a public transportation company in New Delhi.

The couple were introduced through mutual friends in 2001, but didn’t have their first date until October 2015, while Ms. Bajaria was in San Francisco on a business trip.

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section ST, Page 11 of the New York edition with the headline: Sona Bajaria, Keith Barrett. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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