Casey Jay Potter and Kyle Andrew Poelker were married Feb. 16 at the Jewel Box at Forest Park, an events space in St. Louis. Nadine O’Reilly, who was ordained by the American Marriage Ministries, officiated.
The bride and groom met in 2009 at the University of Chicago, from which they each received a law degree.
Ms. Potter, 34, is a staff lawyer at the Texas Court of Appeals for the First District in Houston. She graduated magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University.
She is a daughter of Carol Craig Potter and David C. Potter, both of Dallas. Until 2014, the bride’s father was the chief executive of Source, a telecommunications company that was in Dallas. Her mother works as a stylist in the Dallas showroom of the Carlisle Collection, a women’s fashion line based in New York. She is the vice chairman of the board of the Miss Texas Scholarship Pageant in Richardson, Tex., a part of the Miss America pageant. She is also a traveling companion to Miss Texas.
Mr. Poelker, 33, is a litigation associate at the Houston law firm Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, Alavi & Mensing. He graduated cum laude from Georgetown.
He is a son of Elizabeth Pecha-Poelker and Christopher J. Poelker of St. Louis. The groom’s mother is the chief executive of PrintFlex Graphics, a printing company in St. Louis specializing in promotions, coupons and labels. She is on the boards of South City Family Y.M.C.A. in St. Louis, of which she is chairwoman emeritus; and Grace Hill Women’s Business Center in St. Louis, which provides support to women starting their own businesses. His father retired as an English teacher at Hazelwood West Middle School in Hazelwood, Mo.
The couple met briefly during a law school tradition in which incoming students shake hands with everyone else in their class. They soon began interacting daily, mostly impatiently, since his locker was above hers. By the third year they were good friends, and after graduation a long-distance relationship began while she lived in Austin and he in St. Louis.
