Lt. Meridith Anne Wailes and Lt. Joshua Carl-Louis Dworkin were married Sept. 7. The Rev. Dr. James R. Keck, a minister of the United Church of Christ, performed the ceremony at First-Plymouth Congregational Church in Lincoln, Neb.
Lieutenant Wailes, 30, is a judge advocate at the Naval Air Station in Lemoore, Calif., where she works as a prosecutor. She graduated from the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter, Fla., and received a law degree from the University of Nebraska.
She is a daughter of Doreen J. Primavera-Wailes and Kevin G. Wailes of Lincoln. Her father is the chief executive of Lincoln Electric System, a power company in Lincoln. Her mother was a stay-at-home parent and is on the board of the organization that provides volunteer and financial support for the Foundation for Lincoln City Libraries in Lincoln, and also volunteers for Foodnet, which distributes perishable food from commercial and industrial sources to people in need in Lincoln.
Lieutenant Dworkin, 29, is a Naval flight officer on the E-2 Hawkeye, and a weapons and tactics instructor stationed at the Air Force Weapons School in Las Vegas. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
He is the son of Marguerite L. Dworkin of Chesapeake, Va., and Jeffrey P. Dworkin of Omaha. His mother retired as a paralegal and administrative assistant at the law office in Fort Lee, N.J., of Edward Rosen. His father is the software engineering manager for Teledyne ISCO, a manufacturer of industrial instruments and other products in Lincoln.
The couple met through OkCupid in 2017, when both were stationed in Norfolk, Va.
