Victoria Ellen Watkins and Caroline Grace Garcia were married April 26 at the courthouse of the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division in Manhattan. Associate Justice Rosalyn H. Richter, a friend of the couple who sits on that court, officiated in her chambers.
Ms. Watkins (left), 56, is a director for analytics sales in the division of S&P Global that provides benchmark prices and market analysis on energy, metals and agricultural commodity markets. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Southern California and received an M.B.A. from Harvard.
She is a daughter of Joan T. Casale of San Diego and the late Robert M. Watkins. The bride’s mother is the author of “The Diet Food Finder” (R. R. Bowker, 1975), and was the president of the San Diego County chapter of the National Organization for Women in 1977 and 1978. The bride’s father was the sales manager at Hardy Instruments, an industrial weighing-equipment manufacturer in San Diego.
Ms. Garcia, 60, is the director for business controls at the New York Power Authority in White Plains. She graduated from St. John’s University in Jamaica, Queens, and received a law degree from Columbia.
She is a daughter of the late Gloria Garcia and the late Frank G. Garcia, who lived together in Astoria, Queens. Her father retired as a currency trader at Chemical Bank in Manhattan. Her mother was a stay-at-home parent.
The couple met in 2003 at a mixer in a Manhattan bar, when a mutual acquaintance, who knew both had careers in the electric utility industry, introduced them. The next weekend, they went on their first date.
