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A turning point came in the fall of 2022. Sherron’s time with the Luria campaign was ending, and after spending Thanksgiving in Texas with Sherron’s family, Casale was deployed on a mission to the Mediterranean Sea. At one point, “he called me from the ship phone and I missed it. There’s 500 people on the ship and one ship phone,” Sherron said. “I was devastated.”
She made the spontaneous decision in her employment lull to go to Europe, meeting him at the Naval Station Rota in Spain. He took some days of leave, and they road-tripped across Andalusia and discussed taking the leap — in their careers and their relationship — to move to New York once his deployment was over. From Málaga, they FaceTimed with Casale’s brother to view an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. In January 2023, they moved into that very apartment, together.
Back in New York, Casale earned an M.B.A. from N.Y.U. Stern School of Business. He now works as a consultant at Bain & Company. Sherron is the associate director for institutional giving at the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety.
It was on another European trip, this time to Austria with Sherron’s parents in December 2024, that Casale got the idea for his proposal. “We definitely had ‘The Sound of Music’ on the brain,” Sherron said. In February 2025, during a weekend in Stowe, Vt., they cross-country skied to the Chapel in the Woods at the Trapp Family Lodge & Resort. “I proposed inside this chapel in the woods on a 2–degree day surrounded by 10 feet of snow, and she said yes,” Casale said. “It was the most wonderful day of my life so far.”
Another happy day came on June 6, when they married at the Riverside Church in Morningside Heights, a church to which they belong and say they value for its progressive history. The Rev. Tim Dalton officiated before 180 guests.
The newlyweds cut their cake with a Navy sword, after which the dance party began in earnest. “It was just pure bliss from that point forward,” said the bride, who was lifted into the air, “Dirty Dancing”-style, in the wedding’s final moments.
