Roxanne Elizabeth Bras and Stephen Howell Petraeus were married April 6 in Cambridge, Mass. The Rev. Alanna C. Sullivan, a United Church of Christ minister, performed the ceremony at the Memorial Church of Harvard University.
Mrs. Petraeus, 32, is an associate of McKinsey & Company, the global consulting firm in Boston. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and received a master’s degree in international relations from Nuffield College, Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes scholar.
She is the daughter of Karen Elizabeth Bras and Mark Jan Bras of Lake Mary, Fla. The bride’s father is a captain for American Airlines in Miami. Her mother is a medical quality assurance registered nurse in Orlando, Fla., for Ideal Image, a national medical spa.
Mr. Petraeus, 32, is studying for a joint law degree and M.B.A. from Harvard. He graduated from M.I.T. He is the son of Hollister Knowlton Petraeus and David H. Petraeus of Arlington, Va. The groom’s father, the former general and director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is a partner with KKR, the global investment firm. His mother is a retired assistant director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington.
The couple met as sophomores in college, in 2006, when they were both Army cadets at M.I.T’s Reserve Officer Training Corps unit. They were commissioned as Army officers and served together in Afghanistan in 2010.
