Elizabeth Casey Sahner and Thomas Dante Phillips were married Oct. 20. Msgr. Thomas J. Mullelly performed the ceremony at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church in South Orange, N.J.
The couple met on a 2009 study abroad trip to Cusco, Peru, through Rutgers University, from which both graduated, she magna cum laude and he cum laude.
Ms. Sahner, 29, is to become an associate later this month in the Manhattan office of Latham & Watkins, the Los Angeles law firm. She received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and in 2011-12 was on a Fulbright grant at the Universidad de la Sabana in Chia, Colombia, where she worked as an English teaching assistant. In 2012-13, she was a fellow of the Global Health Corps, providing prenatal health education through the Children’s Health Fund at a clinic of Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.
She is the daughter of Brigid M. Casey and Ronald C. Sahner of Maplewood, N.J.
Mr. Phillips, 36, is a project manager, overseeing strategic initiatives for the chief operations officer in New York of the Royal Bank of Canada. He is also on the young leadership board for the Jersey City chapter of America Needs You, a mentoring organization.
He is a son of Peter J. Phillips of Lakewood, N.J., and the late Maria T. Phillips.
