First, congrats on all the weddings! Whew, what a busy time!
Are you looking for an IRA or just an investment account? If you want to add to your retirement account, it's usually better to just increase the amount deducted from your pay so you don't owe federal taxes on that income. You could also put after-tax (take home pay) into a Roth IRA which doesn’t have the same tax benefit as investing pretax but you also don’t have to pay income tax down the road when you start withdrawing that money.
I've been with Vanguard for 25 years through my work and love them. I started with them in my early 20s as a tax-shelter my employer offered. Now they have about half of my retirement account. They have a LOT of funds to choose from with a wide range of risk.
Last year I had been saving for a big trip this summer ($10,000 for a cruise to Norway). When I found out I wasn’t able to get that week off work, we decided to skip the trip until next year so we opened a joint investment account with Vanguard. Personally, we love the Vanguard US Growth fund. The annual returns are much higher than others and even the 10-yr avg. is pretty good considering this timeframe includes the economic issues of 2008/09 when all accounts were losing money.
I also look what a fund has earned since inception. Many of the Vanguard funds have been around since the 1920s, 1950s, etc. Of course nothing is guaranteed.
Vanguard funds are usually “no-load” which some investment companies charge a fee such as 5%, called a load, just to invest. What a racket...
If you have family in the business, that’s great place to start and hopefully get trustworthy advice!