Hannah Maria Guerrero and Justin Daniel Joffe were married Sept. 14 at LaKota Oaks, a former monastery that is now an events space in Norwalk, Conn. Rabbi Mark Kula officiated with Caroline Ainsworth Hughes, a United Church of Christ minister and friend of the couple, participating.
Ms. Guerrero, 29, is a multimedia artist and an independent scenic painter for film and television in Brooklyn. She graduated from the Cooper Union.
She is the daughter of Marianne L. Perry of New Canaan, Conn., and Arthur B. Guerrero of Bridgeport, Conn. The bride’s father is a nurse supervisor at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan. Her mother is an owner of the Apple Cart Food Company, a catering and food concession company in New Canaan, and the pastoral care coordinator and the assistant to the senior minister at the Congregational Church of New Canaan.
Her stepfather is Emad S. Aziz, also an owner of the Apple Cart Food Company.
Mr. Joffe, 32, is a writer and journalist covering art, culture and the public relations industry for PRNews. He graduated from Emerson College and received a master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
He is a son of Edward M. Joffe of Asheville, N.C., and the late Roxanne A. Joffe. The groom’s mother was a discrimination and labor lawyer and partner in Joffe and Joffe. His father is a retired lawyer in private practice with Joffe and Joffe, a law firm that is now defunct, and a self-published historian and author.
The couple met by chance in 2014 outside Bizarre, a bar in Brooklyn. Their first date was at a Sharon Jones concert at the Lowdown Hudson Blues Festival in Manhattan.
