Grace Peace Truong and John Junyang Lu were married Aug. 10 at the Palm House in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Sheng Ng, a friend of the couple, officiated, having been ordained through American Marriage Ministries for the event.
The couple met at the University of Pennsylvania, from which both graduated summa cum laude, he with two bachelor’s degrees, in economics and in materials science. He also received a master’s degree in materials science from Penn.
Mrs. Lu, 26, is to begin in October as an associate in the intellectual property practice in New York at Goodwin, a law firm. She received both a law degree and a master’s degree in public health from Harvard.
She is a daughter of Alice Thi Tran and Leon H. Truong of Irvine, Calif. The bride’s father is a satellite-communications architect for commercial satellite program, in Palo Alto, Calif., at Maxar Technologies, a space technology company. Her mother is a senior principal systems and software engineer, in Los Angeles, at the Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Mr. Lu, 27, is an investment analyst at Lakewood Capital, a hedge fund in Manhattan.
He is a son of Mingjun Li and Pushun Lu of Mississauga, Ontario. The groom’s parents both retired from the patent and trademark law office of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade in Beijing, his mother as a paralegal and his father, an intellectual property lawyer, as a vice president. The groom’s father was also an arbitrator in Beijing for both the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission and the World Intellectual Property Organization.
In 2014, while still at Penn, the couple and Nicholas X. Liu, a college friend (and the groom’s best man), founded a company called Grant Me, to help streamline the grant-writing process for universities and nonprofit groups. They were accepted into the Microsoft Imagine Fund, a start-up accelerator through which they received seed capital from Microsoft to develop the business, and they ultimately competed against other teams from around the world in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup World Finals, which they did not win.
