Carma Liane Peña and Matthew Andrew Burgos were married Nov. 3 at the State Botanical Gardens of Georgia in Athens. Pastor Gregg V. Sizemore, who was ordained by My Life Bridge Church in Kennesaw, Ga., officiated.
Mrs. Burgos, 36, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a freelance writer in New York. She graduated from Oral Roberts University, from which she also received a master’s degree in Christian counseling. She holds a second master’s degree, in professional writing, from Kennesaw State University.
She is a daughter of Terin Kayla Bates of Houston and Robert Peña of San Antonio. The bride’s father is a continuous improvement specialist for Johnson Controls, a company in San Antonio that helps residential and commercial customers decrease energy use through advanced technologies. Her mother is a teller and financial services representative for Trustmark Bank in Houston.
Mr. Burgos, 34, is the vice president for journey marketing, overseeing digital client experiences for Citi in New York. He also graduated from Oral Roberts, and received a dual M.B.A. degree from Wagner College in management and finance.
He is a son Anna Burgos of New York and the late Anibal Burgos. The groom’s mother retired as a New York police officer who spent the majority of her career at the 70th Precinct in Brooklyn. She was later a member of the New York Police Department’s Emergency Service Unit at Floyd Bennett Field, also in Brooklyn. His father was a train operator for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn.
Though the groom first saw the bride in 2003 on the Oral Roberts campus, he didn’t speak with her until they met on Facebook in January 2015.
