Melissa Ashley Ho and Robert Joseph Stenz were married July 27 in New York. The Rev. Brian G. Konzman performed the ceremony at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, where he is an assistant pastor.
Ms. Ho, 31, is a vice president of Institutional Mortgage Capital, a real estate investment firm in Toronto. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, and from 1996 to 1998 was a cast member in “The King and I” revival at the Neil Simon Theater in New York.
She is a daughter of Maria Ho and John Ho of Fort Lee, N.J. Her father is the chief executive of Institutional Mortgage Capital, and also works in Toronto. Her mother was a founder of Yucky Cookies, a company that was in Jersey City and made cookies out of fruits and vegetables, before becoming a stay-at-home parent.
Mr. Stenz, also 31, is an associate, specializing in mergers and acquisitions in telecommunications, media and technology, in New York, at Lazard Frères & Company, the investment bank. He is also a director and the technology director at the Ascend Educational Fund, an organization in New York that provides college scholarships and mentorship to immigrant students. He graduated from Cornell and received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
He is a son of Rosanne Stenz of Somers, N.Y., and Robert D. Stenz of Long Beach N.Y. The groom’s mother is a senior accountant at Cardinal McCloskey Community Services, a social services agency in Valhalla, N.Y. His father is a lawyer in the Geico insurance office in Westbury, N.Y.
The couple met in 2014 through the dating app Hinge.
