Ruben Porras and Raul Davon Sanchez are to be married Sept. 30 in Brooklyn. Elizabeth A. Murray, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for this event, is to officiate at Giando on the Water, a restaurant.
Mr. Porras, 37, is an agent and an account executive at the Harry Walker Agency, a speakers’ bureau in Manhattan, and is studying for a bachelor’s degree in public policy at the State University of New York’s Empire State College.
He is a son of Maria T. Porras of the Bronx and the late Francisco Porras.
Mr. Sanchez, 25, is a service coordinator and an early-intervention specialist in the early-intervention program for children with developmental delays of the New York City health department. From 2015 to 2017, he was an analyst in the office of presidential correspondence in the Obama administration. He graduated from the City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice and received in May a master’s degree in education and special education from Touro College.
He is a son of Jenice Zayas of Manhattan and a grandson of Maria Zayas, also of Manhattan.
The couple, who will use the surname Porras-Sanchez after the wedding, met in Manhattan in 2013 through a professional development program for which Mr. Porras worked and through which Mr. Sanchez was taking training.