Leona Fitzgerald Rosenblum and Garrett Thomas Berntsen were married Sept. 7 at Camp Puh’Tok, a nonprofit summer camp and learning center in Monkton, Md. Will Quinn, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated.
The bride and groom each received a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins, she a Master of Public Health, he one in international economics.
Ms. Rosenblum, 32, is the deputy director of the applied technology center in the Washington office of John Snow, a public health consulting firm based in Boston. She helps countries in sub-Saharan Africa implement and manage mobile health programs. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown.
She is the daughter of Eileen Fitzgerald and Paul Rosenblum of New York. The bride’s father retired as the managing director of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, N.Y. Her mother is a child psychologist in private practice in New York.
The bride’s maternal grandfather, the late Edward E. Fitzgerald, was the chief executive of the Book-of-the-Month Club, the founder of the Quality Paperback Book Club and the president of the books division at Doubleday Publishing.
Mr. Berntsen, 33, is a manager at Deloitte Consulting in Washington, where he supports the development of analytics capabilities for the State Department. From 2008 to 2013 he served in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division based in Fort Bragg, in North Carolina. He served two combat deployments to Afghanistan, in 2010 and 2012, and was awarded two bronze stars; he was last ranked as a captain. He graduated from the University of Virginia.
He is the son of Rebecca A. Berntsen of Reston, Va., and Gary Berntsen of Tampa, Fla. The groom’s mother is the office manager at Upper Quadrant, a marketing analytics company in Reston. His father retired as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine service based in Washington, and is an author of his memoir “Jawbreaker: The Attack on bin Laden and Al Qaeda,” (Crown Publishers/Random House, 2005), chronicling his role in leading the paramilitary operation to overthrow the Taliban following the Sept. 11 attacks. He now runs a security consulting firm based in Tampa.
The couple were introduced in 2014 through the dating app Hinge. When he asked her out, she said she was in Madagascar for work. He lightheartedly called it a far-fetched excuse and asked for proof. She sent a satisfactory response — pictures of lemurs on a wildlife preserve — and the day after she got back to Washington they met at DC9 Nightclub.
