Amy Margaret Dunagin and Dr. David Adam Gimbel were married July 6. William B. J. Cafferty, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated at Lighthouse Point, a public park in New Haven.
Dr. Dunagin, 34, is an assistant professor of history at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Ga. She graduated and received a doctoral degree in history and musicology from Yale.
She is a daughter of Emily Burch Dunagin and Dr. James L. Dunagin Jr. of McAlester, Okla. The bride’s father, an ophthalmologist, retired as the owner of Southeast Eye Surgery Clinic in McAlester. Her mother is a portrait artist.
Dr. Gimbel, 38, is the director of neurotrauma at Grady Memorial Hospital, and is also an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine, both in Atlanta. He also graduated from Yale and received a medical degree from Yale, too.
He is a son of Rebecca S. Gimbel and Michael S. Gimbel of Plantation, Fla. The groom’s mother retired as a special-education teacher at Fox Trail Elementary School in Davie, Fla. His father is an executive recruiter in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The bride’s previous marriage ended in divorce.
The couple met in 2015 through the dating website OkCupid, and had their first date in New Haven. He was in residency at the time at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and she was a postdoctoral associate at the European Studies Council at Yale.
