The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Leona Molotsky and the late Hyman Molotsky, and the late Abe and Ruth Banoff. {mprestriction ids="1,3"}She is the great-granddaughter of the late Elk and Anna Rose Peltzman of Kansas City.

She attended Indiana University-Bloomington, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education with a minor in Hebrew in 2009. At National-Louis University she earned a Master of Education degree in special education-learning behavior specialist in 2013. She is currently employed as a special education teacher in the Chicago, Illinois, Public Schools.

The future groom is the grandson of Robert and Florence Rothenberg, and the late Dr. Jerry and Gail Wolkoff.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 2010, where he was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. He is a civil engineer at the Illinois Department of Transportation.

A Sept. 4, 2016, wedding is planned.{/mprestriction}