Ashlee Nachelle Eason and Corey Phillip Paris were married Nov. 9 at the Sheraton hotel in Stamford, Conn. The Rev. Keith A. King, a Baptist minister, officiated.
Mrs. Paris, 31, is the procurement supervisor at the Cornell Scott Hill Health Center in New Haven. She graduated from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, where she is now a candidate for a master’s degree in public administration.
She is the daughter of Shelli S. Eason of Hamden, Conn., and the late Lynon B. Milton.
Mr. Paris, 27, is the development director for the Hispanic Health Council, a social services organization in Hartford. He graduated from Western Connecticut State University and is a candidate for a master’s degree in public administration from the University of New Haven. He is also a director of the Charles Ives Authority for the Performing Arts, which oversees the Ives Concert Park in Danbury, Conn., and a member of the Stamford mayor’s multicultural council.
The groom was raised by his grandparents, Gwendolyn J. Knox of Kansas City, Kan., and Shirley Garner Owens and Bob Owens of Maumelle, Ark.
The couple met in February, when Mr. Paris introduced himself to Ms. Eason after a church service that both had attended. But he initially spotted her years ago, in 2012, at the same church, and says that he jokingly whispered then to someone who also knew Ms. Eason, “Introduce me to my wife.”
