Sarah Rose Riedl and Brandon Christopher Clark were married Jan. 26 at the Mid-America Club in Chicago. Heather E. Moran, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated.
The bride and groom are each changing their middle name to Riedl.
Mrs. Clark, 30, is a lawyer in the Chicago office of the San Francisco law firm Gordon & Rees. She graduated from the University of Illinois and received a law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law.
She is a daughter of Lisa A. Riedl and Warren L. Riedl of Elgin, Ill. The bride’s father is a mold maker of plastic closures at the Armin Tool and Manufacturing Company in Elgin. Her mother, a court reporter, is the owner of Janson Reporting Services in Elgin.
Mr. Clark, 36, also a lawyer, works at the Chicago office of the New York law firm Proskauer Rose. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and received a law degree cum laude from DePaul University.
He is the son of Debra L. Clark and Jeffrey L. Clark of Ham Lake, Minn. The groom’s mother is a special education paraprofessional at Andover High School in Andover, Minn. His father is a computer programmer at NovuHealth, a consumer health platform, in St. Louis Park, Minn.
The couple met in 2015 through a mutual friend who called Ms. Riedl as a last-minute stand-in for another woman, whom Mr. Clark was originally supposed to meet for after-work drinks in downtown Chicago. When drinks were over and they parted ways that night, Mr. Clark texted Ms. Riedl, asking about another date.
