Casey Marie Hernandez and Paul Michael Rosen were married Sept. 15 in Ojai, Calif. Alan L. Hoffman, a friend of the couple who was designated a deputy commissioner for civil marriages by Ventura County to preside at the event, officiated at the vacation house of the groom’s mother, Joan M. Rosen, and her partner, Joel F. Kirschner.
Mrs. Rosen, 36, is the vice president for content strategy at Herbalife, the supplement and personal care company in Los Angeles. She graduated from the University of Southern California and received a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard.
She is a daughter of Lupe B. Hernandez and Steven P. Hernandez of Bakersfield, Calif. The bride’s father is a waste management specialist in Bakersfield, managing recycling diversion centers for the public works department of Kern County. Until 2006, he was a platoon sergeant in the California National Guard, also in Bakersfield. The bride’s mother retired as a secretary at Fremont Elementary School in Bakersfield.
Mr. Rosen, 39, is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Crowell & Moring, a Washington law firm. He graduated from the University of Colorado and received a law degree from the University of Southern California.
He is also a son of Ronald D. Rosen of Los Angeles. The groom’s father is a family-law lawyer in private practice in Beverly Hills, Calif. The groom’s mother, who lives in Los Angeles, retired as a sixth-grade English teacher at the Center for Early Education, a private primary school in Los Angeles.
The couple met in 2015 in Washington, at a New Year’s Day party that mutual friends hold annually. Both were then working for the Obama administration — she as the communications counselor for public affairs at the Treasury Department, and he as the deputy chief of staff to Jeh Johnson, the Homeland Security secretary.
