Sarah Abigail Emmerich and Shail Andrew Sturm are to be married Sept. 22 at the Pierre hotel in New York. Rabbi Yaakov Neuburger, a maternal uncle of the groom, is to officiate with Rabbi Adam Mintz, a friend of the bride’s family, participating.
Ms. Emmerich, 26, is pursuing a law degree at N.Y.U. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania. Until 2018 she was a paralegal with the securities and commodities fraud task force at the United States attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York.
She is a daughter of Pamela Nadler Emmerich and Adam O. Emmerich of New York. The bride’s father is a partner in the New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where he works in the mergers and acquisitions practice. He is the president of the board of the Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority in New York, and on the board of the American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center, also in New York. Her mother, who was a stay-at-home parent, until 1994 was a tax lawyer in the New York office of the law firm Jones Day. She is a president of the Northeast region of American Friends of the Hebrew University in New York, and the secretary of its national board.
Mr. Sturm, 31, is the general manager at Park Evaluations, an immigration services firm in New Hyde Park, N.Y. He graduated from Yeshiva University.
He is a son of Dr. Judy N. Sturm and Simon G. Sturm of Toronto. The groom’s mother, a dentist, runs a cosmetic dental practice bearing her name in downtown Toronto. His father is a residential and commercial real estate investor, also in Toronto.
The couple began dating in 2017 after running into each other at a charity event in New York for Knock Knock Give a Sock, which provides socks to those in need. Ms. Emmerich recalled seeing Mr. Sturm, but he vaguely recalled seeing her, over the years in Toronto where she spent many holidays and family gatherings at her maternal cousin’s house next door to his family. “He was an older boy and I was a younger girl,” she said.
