Melissa Renee Smith and Justen Alan Knight were married Sept. 8 at the Potomac View Terrace, an events space at the headquarters of the American Pharmacists Association in Washington. Judge Tanya Chutkan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, officiated.
The bride, 29, is a white-collar litigation associate in the Washington office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, a law firm based in New York. She graduated from Dartmouth and received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is a daughter of Stephanie B. Smith and Gerald A. Smith of Wilmette, Ill. The bride’s father is a director of minority affairs at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her mother is a vice president for human resources at DePaul University in Chicago.
The groom, 33, is a strategy and operations manager in the Washington office of Google. He graduated cum laude from Georgetown and received an M.B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago
He is a son of Jacqueline S. Knight and Johnnie A. Knight of Durham, N.C. His mother, who is retired, was the director of human resources and an assistant county manager for Durham County Government in Durham, N.C. His father, who is also retired, was a production manager for the Liggett Group, a manufacturer of tobacco products now known as Liggett Vector Brands, based in Mebane, N.C.
The couple met in 2015 on a blind date at Sable Kitchen and Bar, a restaurant located at the Kimpton Hotel Palomar in Chicago.
The bride’s previous marriage ended in divorce.
