Anna Elizabeth Stein marries Gregory William Blumstein

Anna Elizabeth Stein, the daughter of Bernard L. Stein and Marguerite Adams of Riverdale, was married Friday to Gregory William Blumstein, a son of Joseph T. and Julie Blumstein of Manhattan.

Ms. Stein’s father is the former editor and co-publisher of The Riverdale Press. Her grandfather, the late David A. Stein, founded The Press in 1950 and her grandmother the late Celia Stein served as its co-publisher for many years.

The bride’s uncle Richard L. Stein, the paper’s current editor and publisher, who became a Universal Life Minister for the occasion, officiated at Alger House, an event space in Greenwich Village.

The bride, 35, is an event coordinator in the Office of Institutional Advancement at Hunter College. She graduated from Eugene Lang College of the New School University.

Her father, who won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1998 — the third time he was a finalist for the prize--is a professor of journalism at Hunter and the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. Her mother retired from her own garden design business headquartered in Riverdale.

The groom, 35, is the managing partner at Onyx Venture Advisors LLC, which provides digital services to entrepreneurs and start-up businesses. 

His father owns BRS Computing, which provides office management and clinical software to dental offices. His mother retired as a flight attendant for American Airlines.

The couple met in middle school at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, but they traveled in different circles, according to Mr. Blumstein. It was to be decades before he began to think romantically about her, when he and another Fieldston friend met a group including Ms. Stein in a bar where they were celebrating her 30th birthday. 

He asked her out, and told her he would like to go out again, he recalled, but although she texted him over a period of months, he said, “I never got a second date.” There was someone else in her life at the time, Ms. Stein said. 

Three years passed before Ms. Stein contacted Mr. Blumstein via Facebook, in April, 2012.  He “seriously considered” not responding, Mr. Blumstein said. But he did, and within a month they were “inseparable,” said Ms. Stein. “I would feel really bad when I didn’t see him for one night.”

Mr. Blumstein said he was drawn to Ms. Stein in part by her account of the time she had spent in India doing volunteer work in a remote area near Dharmsala in the foothills of the Himalayas. She said, teasingly, “I liked his dimples.”

“We have similar ideas about the way the world works,” said Mr. Blumstein. Better still, he said, “We’re happy doing nothing together.”