Chelsea Nicole King and Ian Robert Arthur were married Oct. 20 in Baltimore. Willa Mae McCloud, the bride’s grandmother and an ordained evangelist with the Apostolic Assemblies of Christ, officiated at the couple’s home.
Until June, the bride, 35, was a health care technology strategist and innovation professional for Inovalon, a health care technology company in Baltimore. She graduated from the University of Maryland, from which she also received a master’s degree in health care administration. She is currently a public health doctoral candidate at Morgan State University.
She is the daughter of Judith A. King of Indianapolis and the late James E. King. The bride’s mother is an accountant for the Steak ’n Shake company based in Indianapolis.
The groom, 39, is the business intelligence administrator for Moi, a commercial furniture dealership in Baltimore. He graduated from Penn State.
He is the son of Alice V. Arthur and Ray R. Arthur of Atlanta. The groom’s mother, who is retired, was an administrative assistant to the vice president of global health at Emory University in Atlanta. His father is an infectious disease epidemiologist that leads the Global Disease Detection Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
The couple were introduced in 2011 at a Christmas Eve dinner party in Baltimore by the groom’s sister, who was the bride’s boss at the time.