Mr. and Mrs. William Burnside Bolton Katie Ia Albert and William Burnside Bolton were married June 19, 2010, at Edgewood Farm in Truro, Mass. The bride’s aunt and uncle, Dr. Martha Gold and Dr. Frank Silagy, officiated at the ceremony.

The bride is taking her husband’s name. She is the director of marketing and special projects at the New York Academy of Art in New York. She is the daughter of Marilyn Albert of Baltimore and the late composer Stephen J. Albert, who received a Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for “Symphony RiverRun” and a posthumous Grammy award for “Cello Concerto,” performed by Yo–Yo Ma in 1995. The bride’s mother is the director of the division of cognitive neuroscience in the department of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore. The bride is the stepdaughter of Dr. Guy McKhann, a neurologist and the founding chairman of the Johns Hopkins neurology department as well as the founding director of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind– Brain Institute, also at Johns Hopkins. The bride is the granddaughter of the late Sidney and Jeanette Albert and Dr. Carolyn Koffler and the late Dr. Joseph Silagy. She received a journalism degree from Boston University.

The bridegroom is a painter in New York. Some of his work is part of the summer exhibition of the Academy of Art, from which he received a master of fine arts in painting cum laude. Last fall, he had a solo show at the Farm gallery in Wellfleet, Mass. He is a founder of Redux Contemporary Art Center, a nonprofit studio space and gallery in Charleston, S.C. He graduated from Dreher High School and the College of Charleston.

The bridegroom is the son of Beth Bolton Adams and Terry Bolton, both of Columbia. His mother retired as a second grade teacher at Rosewood Elementary School. His father is the director of safety, security and risk management at Palmetto Health Baptist hospital. He is the grandson of Peggy Lollis Hook of Columbia and the late Dr. Marion Burnside Hook and Peg Cockrell Bolton of Saluda and the late Frank S. Bolton.

The couple met at the art academy in February 2007, just 10 days after Ms. Albert had started working there and accidentally locked her apartment keys in her office. Mr. Bolton, a postgraduate fellow at the time, was busy painting in a studio on the same floor.

Ms. Albert was expecting guests for the weekend and sought help from a security guard. He did not have a key to her office but had a hunch that Mr. Bolton might.

Mr. Bolton did not have a key either but offered to lend a hand or card. “I thought I might be able to jimmy open her lock using my Blockbuster card, but couldn’t,” he said. “It was a little embarrassing. Our faculty chair sidled in and tried it with my card and did it in a few seconds.”

Mr. Bolton recalled taking notice of Ms. Albert, but he did not give her a second thought since his social life took a back seat to his painting.

Ms. Albert, however, could hardly contain herself when she got home and greeted her guests. “When they walked into my apartment they asked me about my new job,” she said. “More important,” she recalled telling them, “I just met the man I am supposed to marry. And, I’m afraid he’ll never realize it.”

Ms. Albert quickly ascertained that Mr. Bolton was “totally focused on painting, totally focused,” she said, “and I came up with various reasons to spend time with him.”

Gradually, he began leaving the studio to go out with her casually. And at an academy ball that May, she said, he told her, “Let’s get together for real.”

Mr. Bolton said that he alway knew that “if I meet the right person, it’ll snap me out of this always–working routine.

A rehearsal dinner hosted by the bridegroom’s parents was held Friday at the Boathouse at Chequessett Yacht and Country Club in Wellfleet, Mass. The bride’s parents hosted a dinner and dance at Edgewood Farm following the ceremony.

The couple will reside in New York City.