Donovan Chiah Moore Jones and Nicholas Steven Deyo are to be married Sept. 2 at the Suffolk Theater, an events space in Riverhead, N.Y. Stephen Scott, a cousin of Mr. Jones who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, is to officiate.
Mr. Jones (left), 37, is the director of jurisdictional H.I.V. testing initiatives at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at New York University’s College of Global Public Health. He graduated from the University of California, from which he received a master’s degree in music. He also received a master’s degree in global public health from N.Y.U.
He is a son of Kateri L. Jones and Dale A. Jones of Livermore, Calif. Mr. Jones’s father is a chemical engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in Livermore. His mother is a teacher at the Alameda County Jail in Dublin, Calif.
Mr. Deyo, 28, works in New York as a senior associate of digital marketing at GrubHub, an online food delivery service based in Chicago. He graduated from Syracuse.
He is a son of Laura A. Deyo and Michael C. Deyo of Smithville, Tex. Mr. Deyo’s father, who is retired, was the director of finance for Merrill Lynch in Houston. His mother is an agent with RE/MAX in Bastrop, Tex.
The couple met in 2012 as members of the New York City Gay Men’s Chorus.
