Christie Nicole Frakes and Rory Michael McMahon were married July 27 at Saratoga Springs Weddings and Events, an events space in Saratoga, Calif. Erin Pagtakhan, a friend of the couple, was deputized by the San Francisco Office of the County Clerk to officiate.
The bride, 30, is a vice president for strategy at Wells Fargo in San Francisco. She graduated with honors from Mills College in Oakland, Calif., and received a master’s degree in English from California State University, East Bay.
She is the daughter of Corazon Partridge of Livermore, Calif., and the late Kim Michael Frakes. The bride is also the stepdaughter of Stephen Partridge.
The bride’s mother is a medical assistant at Kaiser Permanente in Livermore. Her father was a courier with FedEx in Hayward, Calif. He also served as a paratrooper in the Army from 1979 to 1984, and was last stationed at Camp Parks in Dublin, Calif.
The groom, also 30, is a fifth-grade teacher at Dianne Feinstein Elementary School in San Francisco. He graduated from the University of California, Davis with two bachelor’s degrees, one in philosophy and the other in political science, and received a master’s degree in teaching from the University of the Pacific in Sacramento.
He is the son of Lynn Ada McMahon and Christopher McMahon of Oakley, Calif. The groom’s mother was a stay-at-home parent. His father is retired from the San Francisco Plumber’s Union.
The couple met on the dating app Bumble and had their first date in November 2015 at a bar in San Francisco.
