Emily Oriel Lowe and Steven John Schowalter Jr. were married Oct. 19 at the Four Seasons Hualalai, a resort in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Jeff Phaneuf, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for this event, officiated.
Ms. Lowe, 34, is a customer-experience strategy consultant, working with media and entertainment clients, in the Los Angeles office of Slalom Consulting. She graduated from George Washington University.
She is a daughter of Ann Jarrett Lowe and Theodore A. Lowe of Rochester, Mich. The bride’s father retired as the president of the China operations of JVIS, an automotive parts supplier; he worked in Shanghai. Her mother was a stay-at-home parent.
Dr. Schowalter, 31, is a data scientist at VideoAmp, an advertising technology company in Santa Monica, Calif. He graduated from Harvard and received a doctoral degree in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Until August, the groom was a physicist at the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and helped design and build an air monitor that was installed on the International Space Station.
He is a son of Elizabeth Salvador Schowalter and Steven J. Schowalter Sr., both of Honolulu. The groom’s mother was a captain in the Army, having served as a quartermaster officer in the United States and Europe, before becoming a stay-at-home parent. She is now the STEM teacher at Ahuimanu Elementary School in Honolulu. His father retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Army, having served in the infantry as an operations planner.
The groom is also a grandson of the late Edward Rightor Schowalter Jr., an Army colonel who was a recipient of the United States Medal of Honor for service in the Korean War.
The couple met in 2016 through the League, a dating app, and had their first date at a sports bar in Santa Monica.
