Siobhan Scott Heekin-Canedy and Michael Francis O’Hara were married Dec. 28 at the Basilica of St. John the Evangelist in Stamford, Conn. The Rev. Pioter Smolik, a Roman Catholic priest, led the ceremony.
The couple met at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif., from which each graduated, she with distinction.
Ms. Heekin-Canedy, 28, is pursuing a master’s degree in international relations at Tufts University. From 2008 to 2014 she was an elite ice dancer who won the Ukrainian National Championship in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
She is the daughter of Anne Heekin-Canedy and Scott Heekin-Canedy of Stamford. The bride’s father retired as the president and general manager of The New York Times Company. Her mother, a stay-at-home parent who home-schooled the bride through middle and high school, until 1990 was the vice president for film development at MJJ Productions, which was the production company of the singer-songwriter Michael Jackson.
Mr. O’Hara, 27, is pursuing an online bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Arizona State University and is a technical consultant based in Stamford for Cape Environmental Management, a water remediation company in Norcross, Ga., that works on Environmental Protection Agency Superfund projects.
He is a son of Mary O’Hara and Martin O’Hara of Sacramento, Calif. The groom’s mother, a stay-at-home parent, home-schooled her nine children from kindergarten to Grade 12, with the help of his father, a secondary school math teacher who works extensively with curriculum development at John Adams Academy, a classical liberal arts charter school in Roseville, Calif.
In 2014, after Ms. Heekin-Canedy, a freshman, impressed Mr. O’Hara, a senior, with her remarks during the question-and-answer session of a lecture at college, he asked her to go waltzing with him, a Friday night tradition at school. A couple of weeks later they started dating. He proposed in January 2019 at Petrin Lookout Tower overlooking the night lights of Prague.
