Mary Claire Brunelli and Christopher Bryan Edgar were married Dec. 7 in Manhattan. The Rev. Brian G. Konzman performed the ceremony at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, where he is an assistant pastor.
The bride, 29, is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at the City University of New York. She is also a graduate teaching assistant in English at Hunter College and a volunteer for the New York Junior League. She graduated cum laude from Williams College in Williamstown, Mass. She received a master’s degree in French and romance philology from Columbia.
She is the daughter of Marnell B. Stover and Richard R. Stover of West Cornwall, Conn. The bride’s mother teaches art history at the Inner-City Scholarship Fund’s Learning to Look program, a youth art enrichment program in Manhattan. Her stepfather, who is retired, was the president and chief executive of PeriCor Therapeutics, a biotech company in Manhattan.
The groom, 33, is a specialist in the client data oversight group at PIMCO, an asset management firm in Manhattan. He graduated cum laude from Amherst College in Amherst, Mass.
He is the son of Janet A. Edgar and Bryan P. Edgar of Savannah, Ga. The groom’s mother, who is retired, was a medical billing record reviewer for Health/ROI in Lake Success, N.Y. His father, who is retired, was a New York Fire Department firefighter in Springfield Gardens, Queens.
The couple met in December 2016 through the dating app Bumble and had their first date at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.
