Huma Naz Shah and Ardevan Yaghoubi were married Sept. 6 at the Village Hall in Scarsdale, N.Y. Dan Hochvert, the mayor of Scarsdale, officiated. On Sept. 8, Mahanz Ahmad, an aunt of the bride, led the couple in a traditional Muslim wedding ceremony at LongHouse Reserve, a sculpture garden in East Hampton, N.Y.
Ms. Shah, 28, works in Washington as the chief of staff to the president at FWD.us, an immigration and criminal justice advocacy organization. She previously worked as the special assistant and policy adviser to Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama. Ms. Shah has also worked for the Department of Homeland Security as a special assistant in the Office of Public Affairs. She graduated from Harvard and received a Master of Philosophy, with distinction, from the University of Cambridge.
She is a daughter of Farnaz S. Shah and Yawar Shah of Scarsdale. The bride’s father works in New York as a managing director of Citigroup. Her mother works in White Plains as a clinical psychologist for Family Services of Westchester. A great-uncle of the bride, Nasim Hasan Shah, was a chief justice of Pakistan.
Mr. Yaghoubi, also 28, is the founder of Heathcote Capital Partners, a real estate investment firm in New York. He graduated with honors from the University of Chicago and received a master’s degree in law from the University of Oxford.
He is a son of Mahbobe Y. Ghods and Ali A. Yaghoubi of Scarsdale. The groom’s father works in New York as a principal of Trise Development, a real estate development firm. His mother is an adjunct associate professor of art at Columbia.
The couple met in Scarsdale in 2006, while working as editors of their high school newspaper.
