Paola Michelle Garcia and Wail G. Abbo are to be married Nov. 18 in San Francisco. The Rev. Mary-Rose Engle, an interfaith minister ordained by the New Seminary for Interfaith Studies, is to officiate at the Bently Reserve, an events space. Earlier that day, the couple is to take part in a traditional Islamic ceremony led by Hatem Bazian.
The bride, 28, works in San Francisco as an investment management associate for Goldman Sachs. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and received an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, from which she also received a master’s degree in education policy.
She is a daughter of Ana E. Garcia and Benjamin A. Garcia of Dixon, Calif. The bride’s father, who is retired, was a management assistant for the San Francisco Unified School District. Her mother is a bilingual tutor for the Vallejo Unified School District in Vallejo, Calif.
The groom, 34, is a contractor for the State Department in Washington and the founder of Abbo Enterprises, a data analytics consulting firm in Fairfax, Va. He graduated from George Mason University in Fairfax, from which he also received a master’s degree in operations research.
He is a son of Amani El-Mufti of Milton, Ontario. The groom’s mother is the owner of Carved Ebony, a wholesale import company, in Milton, selling handmade ebony wood products. She is also the founder of the Jinan Foundation, a nonprofit organization, also based in Milton, focused on alleviating poverty in Canada and developing countries.
The couple met in 2014 at a mutual friend’s house in Washington.
