Christina Catherine Zipf and Robert Larry Glenn III were married Dec. 28 at St. John Vianney Roman Catholic Church in Gladwyne, Pa. The Rev. Msgr. Donald E. Leighton, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony, with the Rev. Dr. Alyn E. Waller, a Baptist pastor, participating.
The couple graduated from Lafayette College, she cum laude.
Mrs. Glenn, 29, is a real estate manager of the Greater Philadelphia area at Wawa, a convenience retail and fuel store chain based in Wawa, Pa.
She is the daughter of Geraldine Ryan Zipf and Lawrence R. Zipf of Villanova, Pa. The bride’s father is based in Philadelphia as a managing director of property management for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware at CBRE, a commercial real estate firm. Her mother, a stay-at-home parent, was until the mid-1980s a corporate space planner at Irene Pujol, a commercial interior design firm that was in Philadelphia.
Mr. Glenn, 30, who goes by BJ, is a consultant at Reshape Holdings, a New York-based venture capital firm focusing on technology-enabled real estate companies. He received an M.B.A from the University of Virginia.
He is the son of Sherita Royster Glenn and Robert L. Glenn Jr. of Philadelphia. Until 2017 the groom’s mother was the director of diversity, equity and inclusion at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. His father is the captain of the standards and accountability unit in the internal affairs division of the Philadelphia Police Department. He is also a lecturer in the criminal justice department at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. The groom’s parents are on the joint board of the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia, of which the Rev. Dr. Waller is the senior pastor.
Mr. Glenn’s uttered his first words to Ms. Zipf when she was a freshman and he a sophomore at the Shipley School, a K-to-12th grade private day school in Bryn Mawr, Pa. “Hey, nice PT,’’ he said, and after she gave him a puzzled look added, “That’s short for ponytail,” and he then kept walking. Two years later they began dating, and the following year they went to the junior-senior prom together. For their wedding Ms. Zipf decided to wear a ponytail, and said with a laugh, “I read this silly quote once. ‘Wear the hair that got you there.’ ’’
