Jamie Ellen Geller and Daniel Scott Schwarz were married Feb. 16 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. The groom’s father, Rabbi Sid Schwarz, officiated.
The bride, 29, works in Washington as a senior adviser and the communications director for Representative Joaquin Castro, Democrat of Texas. She was until January 2018 a professional staff member and deputy communications director in Washington for the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a master’s degree in security studies program from Georgetown.
She is a daughter of Mary A. Geller and Norm S. Geller of Chicago. The bride’s father is the managing partner of GEM Realty Capital, a commercial real estate investment firm in Chicago.
The groom, who is 33 and works in Washington, is the head of communications for the House Judiciary Committee under its chairman, Representative Jerry Nadler, Democrat of New York, for whom he has previously worked as communications director and foreign policy adviser since 2015. He graduated from Indiana University-Bloomington and received a master’s degree in politics and communications from the London School of Economics.
He is also a son of Sandy Perlstein. The groom’s parents live in Rockville, Md. The groom’s mother is a registered nurse at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington. His father is the founding rabbi of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda, Md., and a senior fellow at Hazon, a nonprofit organization promoting sustainable communities in the Jewish world.
The couple met in October 2015 in the hallways while working on Capitol Hill. The bride was planning a trip to Israel for the Foreign Affairs Committee, and the groom had Representative Nadler ask a longtime friend, Representative Eliot L. Engel, then the committee’s ranking member, for the bride’s number so they could coordinate trip logistics.
