Karen Fu and Victor Alves were married Jan. 17 at San Francisco City Hall. Nancy Carlson, the deputy marriage commissioner, officiated. On April 11, Daniel Gelfarb, a friend of the groom, is to lead the couple in a second ceremony where they are to exchange vows at the Palms Hotel and Spa in Miami.
The bride, 27, is a consultant in San Francisco at Connor Group, a professional services firm based in Silicon Valley. She graduated from the University of Illinois, from which she also received a master’s degree in accountancy.
She is the daughter of Lily An and Chester Fu of Naperville, Ill. The bride’s father is a project manager at Walgreens in Deerfield, Ill. Her mother, who is retired, was an engineer for Verizon Communications in Schaumburg, Ill.
The groom, also 27, is an associate at FPR Partners, an investment firm in San Francisco. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
He is a son of Maria Paula S. Alves and Leandro M. Alves of Brasília. The groom’s mother is a public servant at Brazil’s Ministry of Economy in Brasília. The groom’s father is the founder of LEMA Consultoria, a government relations consulting firm, also in Brasília.
The couple met in September 2015 through a dating app in New York.
