Maureen Ellen Dwyer and Mark Steven Hennigh were married Oct. 12 in Alexandria, Va. The Rev. Jeffrey L. Maszal, a minister of the United Church of Christ, officiated, with Pam C. Glick, a friend of the bride, leading the ceremony at the Lee-Fendall House Museum and Garden.
Mrs. Hennigh, 68, is of counsel in the Washington office of Goulston & Storrs, a law firm. She graduated from Smith College and received a law degree from Catholic University. She is a member of the advisory board for the Washington chapter of the Salvation Army, and in April, she received a certificate of accreditation as a life coach from the MMS Worldwide Institute.
She is a daughter of Edith Dwyer DeFilippo of Bronxville, N.Y., and the late Peter J. Dwyer. The bride’s father was a superintendent of a Bronx district of the New York City Board of Education. The bride’s mother was a stay-at-home parent and then became a home health care nurse at the White Plains Hospital.
Mr. Hennigh, 69, is a partner in Greene Radovsky Maloney Share & Hennigh, a San Francisco law firm. He graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College and received a law degree from Georgetown.
He is the son of the late Julia Minsinger Hennigh and the late David E. Hennigh, who lived in Walnut Creek, Calif. The groom’s mother was a stay-at-home parent. His father oversaw the dairy division of Safeway, the grocery business, and worked in Oakland, Calif.
The bride’s previous marriages ended in divorce, as did the groom’s.
The couple met in 2015 at a conference of real estate lawyers in Baltimore, when Ms. Dwyer asked if any of the men at her table wanted to dance. Mr. Hennigh raised his hand and said, “I do.” Six months later, in 2016, at the organization’s next conference, in San Diego, Mr. Hennigh approached Ms. Dwyer and asked if he could get on her dance card. The two danced again, and also talked, and a romance soon developed.
