Rebecca Genelle Berg and Brendan Kelley Buck were married Nov. 17 at the Inn at Little Washington in Washington, Va. The Rev. Jeffrey L. Maszal, a United Church of Christ minister, officiated.
Ms. Berg, 28, is a CNN political reporter based in Washington focusing on campaigns and elections. She graduated from the University of Missouri.
She is a daughter of Kristi M. Gomez of San Diego, and the late Steven I. Berg. Her mother, a real estate broker, is the owner of San Diego Castles Realty in Poway, Calif., of which her father, who also was a real estate broker, was an owner. The bride is a stepdaughter of Manuel B. Gomez.
The groom, 36, is the chief communications adviser to Representative Paul D. Ryan, the House speaker. Mr. Buck graduated from the University of Georgia.
The groom’s previous marriage ended in divorce.
He is a son of Tracey Kelley Buck and Mark A. Buck of Atlanta. The groom’s mother retired as a software consultant from the Atlanta office of SAP America, which is based in Newtown Square, Pa., and continues to work as an independent software contractor in Atlanta. His father, who is retired, owned a recruiting company in Atlanta focusing on the hospitality industry.
The couple met in 2013 in a basement hallway of the United States Capitol while Ms. Berg as a congressional reporter at BuzzFeed was on the phone with a source, and Mr. Buck, who was a press secretary for the House speaker at the time, John A. Boehner, mingled with reporters. She said she paused long enough to introduce herself to the press secretary who strode by in a gray suit and cowboy boots. A few weeks later she asked him out professionally, and they grabbed drinks at the Tune Inn, a bar on Capitol Hill. After speaking for hours she said it became abundantly clear there was something more romantic going on, and they began dating.
“By necessity we’ve been very strict on separating the personal from the professional in our lives,” she said.
Mr. Buck said that “it’s not too big of a challenge. When we’re home we don’t make work our lives.”
