Christine Rose DiNicola and James David Melton IV were married April 20. Todd Adams, a friend of the couple and a Universal Life minister, officiated at the Legare Waring House, an events space in Charleston, S.C.
Ms. DiNicola, 29, is a manager for travel advertising for Google in New York. She graduated from Duke.
She is a daughter of Catherine P. DiNicola and Peter J. DiNicola of Mount Pleasant, S.C. The bride’s father was until 2002 a captain in the United States Coast Guard, for which he oversaw the Charleston base and other Coast Guard operations in the South Carolina area. He later retired as the director of engineering at Roper St. Francis Healthcare, a medical system with headquarters in Charleston. Her mother is an agent at Travel Leaders of Charleston in Mount Pleasant.
Mr. Melton, 33, is known as David. He is a vice president for equity derivatives in the New York office of Credit Suisse, the Swiss bank. He also graduated from Duke.
He is the son of Laurie P. Melton and Dr. Melton III of Lakeland, Fla. The groom’s mother was a stay-at-home parent. She was the president from 1999 to 2000 of the Junior League of Greater Lakeland, a nonprofit organization for women. His father, an emergency medicine specialist, is the chairman of emergency medicine at Lakeland Regional Health, a hospital in Lakeland.
The couple met in 2013 at a wedding in Vieques, P.R. Mr. Melton asked Ms. DiNicola to dance, and she politely declined. Later at the event, they wound up talking anyway and eventually exchanged phone numbers. They began dating several months later.
