Samantha Alexis Shipp and Demetrius Antonio Warrick are to be married Sept. 16 at the 620 Loft and Garden, an events space in New York. The Rev. Nicolas Hood III, a United Church of Christ minister, is to officiate.
The bride, 37, works in New York as the general counsel and chief operating officer of the LS Group, an investment company, based in Kigali, Rwanda, that focuses on energy and infrastructure investments in Africa. She graduated from Stanford and received a law degree from the University of Michigan.
She is the daughter of Wendy M. Baxter of Detroit and the late Feodies Shipp Jr. The bride’s mother, who is retired, was a judge for the Wayne County Circuit Court in Detroit. She is the owner of Win Win Facilitation, a mediation and conflict resolution company in Detroit. The bride’s father was the owner of a real estate company, also in Detroit.
The groom, 35 is a senior mergers and acquisitions associate at the New York law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. He graduated from Duke and received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the son of Lisa C. Dickson and Julius A. Warrick of Philadelphia. The groom’s mother works as a head bank teller at PNC Bank in Lansdowne, Pa. His father is the owner of Bright & Clean Cleaning Service, a corporate cleaning company in Philadelphia.
The couple met in 2006 at a party on the campus of the University of Michigan. They later reconnected and had their first date in 2011 in New York.
