Shana Michel Slutsky and Jonathan Kain Greenberg were married Nov. 10 at the Geraghty, an event space in Chicago. Rabbi Irwin Kula officiated.
Ms. Slutsky, 33, is a Pilates instructor at Real Pilates in TriBeCa and the Center Studio on the Upper West Side in New York. Until 2015, she was an associate producer at NBC’s “Weekend Today.” She graduated with high distinction from Indiana University.
She is the daughter of Barbara Kaplan Slutsky and Dr. Marc H. Slutsky of Highland Park, Ill. The bride’s father is a psychiatrist in private practice in Chicago and Highland Park. He is also the founder and the president of the Aitz Hayim Center for Jewish Living, a synagogue in Glencoe, Ill. Until 1987, her mother was the vice president overseeing marketing services at the Chicago Board Options Exchange in Illinois. Until 2016, she was on the board of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
Mr. Greenberg, 32, is a senior associate in investment banking at Morgan Stanley in New York, where he advises media and communications companies on mergers, acquisitions and raising capital. He graduated from Northwestern and received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
He is the son of Janet Kain Greenberg and Edward M. Greenberg of New York. The groom’s mother works in New York as a commercial and residential real estate saleswoman at the Corcoran Group and owns Janet Kain for the Home, an online decorative home accessories business. His father retired as a managing director at Morgan Stanley in New York, and is now a telecommunications consultant. He is also the chairman and the founder of Broadway Near You, a start-up company that records live theater productions mainly to be shown in movie theaters.
The couple met in 2015 through a mutual friend, who grew up with Ms. Slutsky in Highland Park and went to business school with Mr. Greenberg. After three months of strategic nudging by their friend, Mr. Greenberg finally texted Ms. Slutsky for a date.