Raquel Olivia Alvarenga and Edward Joseph Loya Jr. were married Nov. 10 at Christ the King Catholic Church in Dallas. Msgr. Donald Zimmerman performed the ceremony.
The bride, 33, is a litigation associate in the New York and Texas offices of the law firm Haynes and Boone. She graduated from Harvard, and received an M.B.A. from the New York Institute of Technology. She also holds a law degree from Cornell.
She is a daughter of Miriam E. Alvarenga and Oscar O. Alvarenga of Rockwall, Tex. The bride’s father retired as a building engineer for First Quality Enterprises, a company in Great Neck, N.Y., that manufactures hygiene products and other paper items.
The groom, 39, is a partner in Epstein Becker & Green, a New York-based law firm. From 2008 to 2013, he served as a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Public Integrity Section in Washington. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, and received a law degree from Stanford.
He is the son of Virginia Bravo Loya of Ventura, Calif., and Mr. Loya Sr. of Fillmore, Calif. The groom’s mother retired as a housekeeper for the County of Ventura, Calif. She served as a juror in the 1992 trial in Simi Valley, Calif., of four Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force in the death of Rodney King.
The couple first met on the phone in September 2013 while working on a case together at Venable, a Washington law firm. On Valentine’s Day in 2014, they met in person for the first time in Rockwall, and began dating shortly thereafter.
