Stephanie Moelis Rivkin and Joel Stern Sircus were married Sept. 22 at Theater on the Lake, an events space in Chicago. Robert M. Dresser, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated, with Meredith H. Potter, another friend of the couple, leading them in their vows.
Ms. Rivkin, 27, is a sales account manager in the New York office of Google; she is to work in the Chicago office beginning in October. She graduated cum laude from Yale.
She is a daughter of Cindy S. Moelis and Robert S. Rivkin of Chicago. The bride’s father is the deputy mayor of Chicago. Her mother is the president of the Pritzker Traubert Foundation, the Chicago charity of Penny Pritzker, who was a commerce secretary in the Obama administration.
Mr. Sircus, 26, is an investment associate in Chicago at DNS Capital, the investment office for Gigi Pritzker, Michael Pucker and their family. The groom also graduated cum laude from Yale, though the couple met in high school, in Chicago, at Walter Payton College Preparatory High School.
He is a son of Mindy Crandus Sircus and Gary M. Sircus, also of Chicago. The groom’s mother is a managing director, in the in-house counsel practice, in the Chicago office of Major, Lindsey & Africa, a legal recruiting service. His father is the manager for teacher-education programs at the Museum of Science and Industry’s Institute for Quality Science Teaching in Chicago.
