Dr. Lauren Alyse Lepow and Joshua Michael Stieber were married Sept. 29. Cantor Shira Ginsburg officiated at the Robert F. Wagner Park in Manhattan.
The bride and groom met while at Columbia, from which they each graduated, he magna cum laude.
Dr. Lepow, 28, is a second-year resident in psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, and a candidate for a doctoral degree in neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She received a medical degree from the University of Texas at Houston.
She is the daughter of Gloria K. Lepow and Dr. Gary M. Lepow of Houston. The bride’s father, a podiatrist, is the owner in Lepow Foot and Ankle Specialists in Houston. He is also the program director for the podiatric residency training program at St. Joseph Medical Center in Houston, and is an associate professor at the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas and at Baylor College of Medicine, which is also in Houston. The bride’s mother is an owner and the chief executive of the Kay Packing Company, a wholesale meat and poultry distributorship in Houston.
Mr. Stieber, 30, is a candidate for a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at St. John’s in Jamaica, Queens, and is also a psychology intern at Elmhurst Hospital in Elmhurst, Queens. From 2006 to 2008, he served in the United States Army, attaining the rank of specialist, and was an infantryman at Fort Riley in Kansas. He was deployed to Iraq in 2007.
He is a son of Lynn English Stieber and Michael J. Stieber of Laytonsville, Md. The groom’s mother is an activities specialist in the Gaithersburg, Md., office of Target Community and Educational Services of Maryland, an organization that provides services to adults with special needs. The groom’s father is a sales representative in Columbia, Md., for W. B. Mason, an office supply company.
The couple met in the fall semester of the bride’s final year of college, in 2012, in the abnormal psychology class both were taking. Just before the final exam, they had their first conversation, which they continued the evening after the exam when they bumped into each other at a bar.
