Elena Cecilia Schneider and Eli Jonathan Stokols were married Sept. 15 at the Augsburg Lutheran Church in Winston-Salem, N.C. Paul Wollner, an Evangelical Lutheran priest, officiated, with Rabbi Andrew Ettin taking part in an interfaith ceremony.
The bride, 27, is a campaign reporter at Politico in Arlington, Va. She graduated from Northwestern, from which she also received a master’s degree in journalism.
She is a daughter of Anna C. Rubino-Schneider and Richard C. Schneider Jr. of Winston-Salem. The bride’s father is the associate dean of international affairs and a professor of law at the Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem. Her mother is a remote business journalist for OTR Global, an investment research firm based in Purchase, N.Y.
The bride’s maternal great-grandfather was Gen. J. Lawton Collins, known as Lightning Joe, who led the VII Corps in the Allied Invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and he later served as the Army chief of staff during the Korean War.
The groom, 39, is a White House reporter in Washington for The Los Angeles Times. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia.
The groom is a son of Jeannette J. Stokols and Daniel S. Stokols of Irvine, Calif. The groom’s mother, who is retired, was a clinical psychologist in private practice in Irvine, Calif. His father is the founding dean and a chancellor’s professor emeritus at the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine.
The couple met in 2016 at Politico, where they both worked at the time. They began dating at the outset of the 2016 presidential campaign.
The groom’s first marriage ended in divorce.
