Sarah Shourd and Shane Bauer married near the ocean, in a town not identified, surrounded by some 200 family and friends, Ben Rosenfeld, a San Francisco attorney, said in a statement.
“Friends and family assumed roles at their wedding, in the same spirit of community which suffuses Sarah and Shane’s everyday lives, and which characterized the tireless broad support they received throughout their ordeal. Friends traveled from around the globe to be present. The group danced outside under the amorous cross-rays of Venus and a ‘super-moon,’” he said.
The newlyweds immediately left on their honeymoon.
No photos of the wedding have yet been released.
Shourd, Bauer and the third hiker—Josh Fattal—were arrested after straying across the unmarked border between Iraqi Kurdistan and Iran on July 31, 2009.
Bauer proposed during their time in prison, fashioning an engagement ring from the threads of one of his shirts.
Shourd was released in 2010, and Bauer and Fattal were freed last September after 781 days in captivity and a trial for espionage that Bauer said was based on “ridiculous lies.”
A total of $1.5 million in bail money was paid to free the three of them. It is believed that the ruler of Oman paid the money, but no one has yet said so for sure.