Amanda Moïse Aycock and Marc Balmazi were married Sept. 14 at the bride’s family ranch in Sardis, Miss. Katherine Polk Failla, a judge for the Southern District of New York and a Universal Life minister, officiated.
Ms. Aycock, 34, is a senior litigation associate at the Manhattan office of the Los Angeles-based law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, from which she also received a law degree cum laude. She received a master’s degree cum laude in global business law from Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po) and Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne.
She is a daughter of Dr. Claudia L. Moïse and Dr. Richard S. Aycock. The bride’s father, a gastroenterologist, is a managing partner in Gastro One, a group practice in Memphis. He is on the board of the Metal Museum, which promotes the art and craft of fine metalwork, in Memphis. Her mother is an obstetrician and gynecologist at the Memphis Obstetrics and Gynecological Association, a group practice, also in Memphis.
The groom, also 34, is an associate general counsel at GoldPoint Partners, an investment firm in Manhattan. He graduated from Brandeis and received a law degree from N.Y.U.
He is the son of Vera Balmazi and Leon Balmazi of Brookline, Mass. Until 2007, the groom’s mother was a general counsel at the Massachusetts State Office of Minority and Women Business Assistance in Boston. His father is an independent accountant and real estate manager in Brookline and Boston. He is a life master of chess in the United States, and until 1974 was a chess master in the Soviet Union.
After the couple were introduced in February 2016 through the dating app Hinge, Ms. Aycock agreed to meet Mr. Balmazi only after a mutual friend gave him a thumbs-up.
