Ashli Adele Barnes and Joseph Vincent Jaroscak were married Nov. 10 at Sycamore Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville, N.C. The Rev. Jesse Chadwick, the church’s assistant pastor, performed the ceremony.
The bride, 32, is an assistant director at the National Committee for Quality Assurance, a nonprofit health care organization in Washington. She graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville and received a master’s degree in public health from George Washington University.
She is a daughter of Vonzella S. Barnes and Donald E. Barnes of Greenville. The bride’s father retired as a senior corporate buyer at DSM Pharmaceuticals in Greenville. Her mother, also retired, taught keyboarding and computer technology at Farmville Middle School in North Carolina and is now a substitute teacher of various subjects in the Pitt County Schools district.
The groom, 31, is a program manager for the Workforce Investment Council in the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Greater Economic Opportunity in Washington. He graduated from Butler University in Indianapolis and received a master’s degree in community planning from the University of Cincinnati.
He is the son of Elizabeth A. Jaroscak and Donald J. Jaroscak of Chicago. The groom’s parents own and manage a construction supply business. The groom’s father is also a carpenter for the City of Chicago.
The couple met in 2015 in Washington through OkCupid.