Katelyn Jo Polantz and Jared Thomas Soares were married Nov. 3 in Pittsburgh. The Rev. Bernard Karmanocky, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at the Heinz Memorial Chapel at the University of Pittsburgh.
Ms. Polantz, 31, is a senior writer at CNN, covering justice and law in Washington. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh.
She is the daughter of Joan Gorczycki Polantz and Joseph L. Polantz of Johnstown, Pa. The bride’s father retired as a vice president for sales and marketing, in Johnstown, at Compumedics, an Australian company that makes sleep and brain diagnostic and research equipment. Her mother retired as a medical technologist in an oncology and hematology office at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Johnstown.
Mr. Soares, 36, is a documentary and portrait photographer in Washington whose work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone magazine and other publications. He graduated from the University of Kansas.
He is an author of “Days Before/Days After” (Zatara Press, 2018), and his work is also in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo., the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Cleveland Museum of Art, and is currently on display in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
He is the son of Marlene M. Soares and Michael J. Soares of Shawnee, Kan. The groom’s mother retired as a nurse in the neonatal intensive care unit at Overland Park Medical Center in Overland Park, Kan. His father is the director for perinatal research at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and is a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the university’s medical school.
The couple met in 2009 while working for The Roanoke Times, a newspaper in Roanoke, Va.
