Kathleen Joanna Gabel and Michael Tak-Chi Chui were married Sept. 1 in Stanford, Calif. The Rev. John A. Harrison, a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, performed the ceremony at the Stanford Memorial Church, where he is a pastoral associate.
Mrs. Chui, 33, is the communications manager at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford. She graduated from Smith College and received a law degree from the State University of New York Buffalo.
She is a daughter of Gregory D. Gabel of Pinole, Calif., and the late Mary Van Geffen Gabel, who lived in Richmond, Calif. The bride’s father is a facilities assistant at Gracenote, a music-recognition technology company in Emeryville, Calif. Her mother was a nurse manager in the obstetrics and gynecology unit at the Kaiser Permanente hospital in Oakland, Calif.
Dr. Chui, 49, is a partner, conducting research on the impact of long-term technology trends, for the research arm of McKinsey & Company, the consulting company. He graduated from Stanford and received a doctoral degree in computer science and cognitive science from Indiana University.
He is a son of Dr. Lily Cheung Chui and Dr. David H. Chui of Newton, Mass. The groom’s mother, an occupational medicine specialist, is in private practice. His father, a hematologist, is a professor of medicine, pathology and laboratory medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine in Boston, and is also the director of the Hemoglobin Diagnostic Reference Laboratory at the Boston Medical Center.
The couple met through OkCupid in 2013, and had their first date in Berkeley, Calif.
