Alexandra Sarah Ignatius and Thomas James Weishan were married May 25 in Washington. The Rev. Brooks F. Hundley, an Episcopal priest, officiated at the Little Sanctuary, the chapel at St. Albans School, where he is a chaplain.
Ms. Ignatius, 31, is a senior account supervisor for corporate affairs and crisis communications at Edelman, the Chicago public relations firm. She graduated cum laude from Columbia, and is to begin in August an M.B.A. program at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.
She is a daughter of Eve Thornberg Ignatius and David R. Ignatius of Washington. The bride’s father is a foreign-affairs columnist for The Washington Post and is the author of “The Quantum Spy” (W.W. Norton & Company, 2017) and other novels. Her mother is a principal software developer in Arlington, Va., for BAE Systems, the British defense, security and aerospace company.
Mr. Weishan, 32, is to begin work, in June, as a strategic planning manager at Emerson Electric, an industrial components and equipment manufacturer in Ferguson, Mo. He graduated cum laude from Carleton College and received an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin.
He is a son of Deborah A. Weishan and James J. Weishan of Stevens Point, Wis. The groom’s mother worked as an audiologist in Kalamazoo, Mich., before becoming a stay-at-home parent. His father retired as an executive vice president and the chief investment officer of the Sentry Insurance Group in Stevens Point.
The couple met in 2014 in Shanghai at a bar popular with expats, which both then were. He was working on an educational start-up company and she was with an advertising, marketing and public relations firm. “I thought he was cute and went up and started talking with him,” she said. It was chilly that evening, and Mr. Weishan lent Ms. Ignatius a sweatshirt to wear home. “That means I’ll have to see you again to return it,” Ms. Ignatius recalls having said.
The couple met for sushi the next day (and she returned the sweatshirt).
