Nothing could stop Molly Beth Gaebe from attending her former college softball teammate’s wedding in Stonington, Conn. Not even knee surgery. “You can’t go,” she recalled her friends saying, to which she replied, “Just watch me.”

So she rolled her wheelchair through a muddy field at Saltwater Farm Vineyard in October 2018, wearing a floral dress and a knee brace. “My main accessory,” Ms. Gaebe said of her knee brace. She had been a pitcher for the Wesleyan Cardinals at Wesleyan University, where she graduated in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in theater and American history.

After three former teammates whirled Ms. Gaebe around the dance floor, Leila Bozorg, also a Wesleyan graduate, spun her around as well. She then wheeled Ms. Gaebe over for a group photo and stood behind her.

“I felt wonderful being next to her,” said Ms. Gaebe, 38, who never knew her in college. “It felt so right — we didn’t even know each other’s names.”

“She was very charming and fun,” said Ms. Bozorg, 40, who was three years ahead of Ms. Gaebe at Wesleyan and graduated with a bachelor’s in government studies. She later received a master’s degree in city planning from M.I.T. She is now the chief of strategy and policy at NYC Kids Rise, a nonprofit organization that manages a citywide college and career savings program for public schools. Ms. Bozorg, also an urban planner, is a commissioner on the New York City Planning Commission.

Ms. Gaebe is a comedian and a writer for Abortion Access Front, a group that uses humor to advocate and educate people about abortion access. She also runs the Rubbish Comedy Collective, an online comedy school and performance group in Manhattan.

Later, once the wedding reception was over, Ms. Gaebe headed to the after-party at a bar in Mystic, Conn. “I rolled in and saw Leila,” she said. “She was at a high-top table. I boldly wheeled up to her.”

Ms. Gaebe asked her, “Hey, what are you drinking?” Ms. Bozorg replied with an obvious answer: “Beer.”

“I laughed and put my hand on her knee,” Ms. Gaebe recalled.

Afterward, they sat next to each other on a yellow school bus heading back to their hotels and had their first kiss.

Unlike most guests at the wedding, they both lived in New York — Ms. Gaebe in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood and Ms. Bozorg in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

“I was impressed she was using comedy for social good,” Ms. Bozorg said. The next week, she attended the Golden Probe Awards, a satirical show, while Ms. Gaebe worked behind the scenes.

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On their first date, Ms. Bozorg picked Ms. Gaebe up and wheeled her over to Hudson River Park. On the way back, the two grabbed beers and French fries at the now-shuttered Half King pub, and later Ms. Bozorg tidied up Ms. Gaebe’s place before leaving.

“Oh, this is such a good person,” Ms. Gaebe recalled thinking at the time.

A week later, she roped off seats for Ms. Bozorg at her improv group’s weekly show at the Upright Citizen Brigade in the East Village. By this point, Ms. Gaebe was using crutches. Ms. Bozorg soon began attending her shows regularly.

“I was really, really into her,” Ms. Gaebe said. “She was taking it more slowly.” When she asked Ms. Bozorg to be her girlfriend, Ms. Bozorg said no at first. Ms. Bozorg’s last relationship had ended only a few months earlier.

But “two weeks later, she came around,” Ms. Gaebe said. “She told me she loved me.”

In late November, Ms. Gaebe asked Ms. Bozorg to meet her after physical therapy for a surprise. “Oh you’re taller than me,” Ms. Bozorg said when she saw Ms. Gaebe without her crutches. And then for the first time, they held hands walking down the street.

They spent Christmas with Ms. Bozorg’s aunt in Barnard, Vt. While they were there, Ms. Bozorg, whose parents arrived in the United States after the Iranian Revolution, discovered a random Persian connection to Ms. Gaebe.

“My aunt went to school in Tehran with Molly’s father’s cousin,” Ms. Bozorg said.

In the summer of 2019, Ms. Bozorg took Ms. Gaebe to Cherry Grove on Fire Island for a weeklong stay. It soon became a yearly tradition. The next summer, Ms. Bozorg bought a weekend house in Big Indian, N.Y., and moved into Ms. Gaebe’s apartment.

In August 2021, Hurricane Henri swept through Cherry Grove. The couple evacuated the house they were renting at the time and stayed at a hotel through the worst of the storm. It was during this time that Ms. Gaebe started hatching her plan to propose. She bought a rainbow fabric ring the next day and contacted Boudoir LeFleur, one of the couple’s favorite drag queens, to be a part of the proposal.

Halfway through Boudoir LeFleur’s show at Cherry’s on the Bay, a restaurant and venue on Fire Island, she called out in mock innocence: “Is Molly in the room?”

“Leila joon,” Ms. Gaebe said onstage, using a Farsi endearment. When Ms. Bozorg joined her, Ms. Gaebe got down on one knee with the rainbow fabric ring she’d picked up that day from a local souvenir shop.

On June 24, the couple were wed in front of 220 guests at Full Moon Resort in Big Indian. Amit S. Bagga, a friend of the couple and a Universal Life minister, officiated, with Zack Willis, another friend, taking part in the ceremony.

“It had a summer campy farm vibe,” Ms. Bozorg said. The wedding also incorporated some Persian traditions, including a “Sofreh Aghd,” a table filled with spices, rock candy and little sugar cones.