Dr. Elena Miriam Welt and Jason Ira Burke were married Oct. 20 at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington. Rabbi Jacob Singer-Beilin officiated.
The bride and groom, both 32, graduated from Washington University in St. Louis.
The bride is a physician in a pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington. She received a medical degree from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
She is the daughter of Andrea F. Welt and David M. Welt of Livingston, N.J. Her mother is an administrative assistant at the Temple B’nai Jeshurun Rabbi Barry H. Greene Early Childhood Center and Camp T.B.J. in Short Hills, N.J. Her father is a lawyer and the senior partner in the law firm of Welt & Kuzemczak in Clifton, N.J.
The groom is a technology consultant at Zeichner Risk Analytics in Arlington, Va. He received a law degree from Fordham. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in cybersecurity at George Washington University.
He is a son of Sharon B. Burke and Dennis B. Burke, also of Livingston. His mother is a lawyer in private practice specializing in divorce mediation in West Orange, N.J. His father is a founder and the chairman of the board at Essextech, a company that provides cybersecurity solutions to businesses in Rochelle Park, N.J.
The couple grew up in the same town in New Jersey and attended Washington University in St. Louis. But they did not connect until they both moved to Washington in 2014. They had their first date at Hank’s Oyster Bar.
