Megan Marie Huntley and Tyler William Kupper were married Sept. 21 at the Tokeneke Club in Darien, Conn. The Rev. Charles H. Allen, a Roman Catholic priest, officiated.
Mrs. Kupper, 30, is a vice president for sales and trading at Goldman Sachs in Manhattan. She graduated magna cum laude from Colgate.
She is the daughter of Dr. Richard Huntley Jr. and Joanne Zrike Huntley of Westport, Conn.
Mr. Kupper, 33, is a partner and chief revenue officer in Weatherman Umbrella, an e-commerce umbrella company in Brooklyn. He graduated from the University of Delaware and received a master’s degree in communications from Columbia.
He is the son of Jacqueline S. Kupper and William P. Kupper Jr. of Nantucket, Mass.
In December 2011, when Ms. Huntley found it too unwieldy to drag a Christmas tree up to her fourth-floor walk-up apartment in time for her annual tree-trimming party, her mother suggested Tyler’s Trees, an online service that delivers and sets up Christmas trees.
She became a yearly customer, and all went smoothly until 2016 when her order fell through the cracks.
“I was waiting for my tree on a Friday night,” she said. “It didn’t come during the delivery slot.”
Her call to customer service, to her surprise, bounced to Mr. Kupper, who had just sold the company, which he had run with Brian Millman since 2007.
“We used to joke that we started the business to make money and meet girls,’’ Mr. Kupper said. (They were inspired to start the business after seeing a woman drag a tree along snowbanks on Park Avenue.) But he never met anyone.
“I will deliver it personally tomorrow morning,” Mr. Kupper told Ms. Huntley, apologizing profusely while on speakerphone with Mr. Millman, who was recently married and in New York from Los Angeles for their final season.
When Ms. Huntley told them she would be running the New York Road Runners Jingle Bell Jog in Brooklyn the next morning, they agreed to arrive around noon, and Mr. Millman quickly interjected that Mr. Kupper had run nine marathons.
On the way to her apartment the next day Mr. Kupper picked up Veuve Clicquot Champagne to mark the final delivery and red Gatorade to salute Ms. Huntley’s morning race.
“I knocked on the door, and was stunned,’’ said Mr. Kupper, who carried a stand, tree skirt, Champagne and Gatorade, while Mr. Millman balanced a seven-foot tree over his shoulder. “She was a beautiful girl, with a big smile. So nice. So warm.”
She was quite taken with him, too. “He was really tall, with curly hair and a big smile,” she said, and in less than 15 minutes the tree was set up. Mr. Millman, their best man, suggested she text Mr. Kupper a photo of the decorated tree for social media, which she did that evening.
As soon as Mr. Kupper got the photos, he told her she “rocked it,’’ and asked if she would like to join him for a drink sometime.
The following Thursday, they met at the Tipsy Parson, a Chelsea bar, and a few days later, they went to a Rangers game at Madison Square Garden, where they spent more time focusing on each other rather than the hockey. They shared a first kiss during the third period.
In August 2018, he proposed after they took a motorboat to Cockonoe Island off Compo Beach in Westport, Conn., and in December, Tyler’s Trees was called upon to set up their annual tree at another location — Upland Restaurant in Manhattan for their engagement party.
“Everyone always told me when you’re dating in New York you need to get out there because nobody is going to knock on your door,’’ Ms. Huntley said. “Well, they were wrong. And, to my surprise, he did.”
