Stephanie Pak-Ying Wai and Andrew William Turco were married Oct. 6 at the Parker, a hotel in Palm Springs, Calif. Jonathan T. Bilich, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated.
Ms. Wai, 33, is an engagement manager in San Francisco for the McKinsey & Company consultancy. She graduated cum laude from Williams College and received an M.B.A. from M.I.T.
She is a daughter of Kit-Yee Lim of Newport Beach, Calif., and the late Stephen H. S. Wai. The bride’s father was a business development director in the Irvine, Calif., office of Allergan, a pharmaceutical company. Her mother is a financial consultant for hospitals and other health care organizations in Newport Beach.
Mr. Turco, 33, is an assistant vice president for residential multifamily development at Sares Regis Group, a real estate development firm in San Mateo, Calif. He graduated from Princeton and received master’s degrees in both city planning and in real estate development from M.I.T.
He is the son of Susan B. Itzkowitz and Thomas J. Turco of New Rochelle, N.Y. The groom’s mother is the president of Marc Fisher Footwear, the shoe designer and manufacturer in Greenwich, Conn. His father retired as an environmental engineering consultant in New Rochelle.
The two were introduced in 2011 by their younger sisters, who were college friends, and enjoyed their first meeting so much that they took a round trip on the Staten Island Ferry to extend the date. They went out a few more times before Mr. Turco moved to Massachusetts for graduate school, and then began dating seriously in 2012, when Ms. Wai moved to Massachusetts for graduate school, too.
