Amanda Raymonde Alexander and Robert Anthony Rich were married Oct. 13 at St. Mary’s Orthodox Church in Brooklyn. The Rev. Michael Ellias, an Antiochian Orthodox priest, performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Rich, 26, is a visual arts teacher at Public School 41 in New Dorp, Staten Island. She graduated magna cum laude from Hunter College, and received master’s degree in both art and art education from Columbia.
She is a daughter of Denise G. Alexander and John M. Alexander of Brooklyn. The bride’s father is a senior editor at The Brooklyn Daily Eagle and The Home Reporter, daily newspapers based in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He is also a former senior music editor at Reader’s Digest Music in Manhattan. Her mother is a prekindergarten teacher at Our Saviour Lutheran Preschool in Brooklyn.
Mr. Rich, 35, is counsel at Hunton Andrews Kurth, a Manhattan law firm, where he practices bankruptcy and corporate restructuring law. He graduated cum laude from Boston College and received an M.B.A. and law degree from a combined program run by Fordham University’s School of Law and Graduate School of Business.
He is a son of Karen M. Rich and Robert P. Rich, also of Brooklyn. The groom’s mother is an associate event coordinator for the New York City Mayor’s Office of Special Projects. His father is a managing partner in Zraick, Nahas & Rich, a law firm in Manhattan.
The couple met in 2015 at a political fund-raiser held at the Bay Ridge Manor, a catering hall.
