Dr. Elisa Claire Walsh and Winston Xia Yan were married Sept. 8 at the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Mass. Edward Li, a friend of the couple who received permission from the state of Massachusetts to solemnize the marriage, officiated. A traditional Chinese tea ceremony was held Sept. 7, at the home of the bride’s aunt, Jean Walsh of Newton, Mass.
The bride, 28, and the groom, 30, met at Harvard, where she received a medical degree and he graduated, magna cum laude, and received a doctoral degree in biophysics.
Dr. Walsh is a first-year anesthesiology resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She graduated cum laude from the California Institute of Technology.
She is the daughter of Ruth G. Walsh of Boston, who retired as a population health and wellness consultant at Tufts Health Plan, which is in Watertown, Mass.
Dr. Yan is a founder of Arbor Biotechnologies, a company in Cambridge, Mass., that is working to discover new proteins that might be used for advances in therapeutics and biotechnologies.
He is the son of Dr. Weijia Xia Yan and Dr. WenLiang Yan of Arlington, Va. The groom’s mother, an anesthesiologist, is in private practice in the Washington area. His father, a neurologist, is the founder of a medical device start-up in Arlington.
