Elizabeth Jackson Pearce and George Coombs Zoulias were married June 1 at Devon Yacht Club in Amagansett, N.Y. Timothy Wilson, a Baptist chaplain with the United States Joint Special Operations Command, officiated; he was the groom’s battalion chaplain while they were deployed to Mosul, Iraq, in 2005.
Mrs. Zoulias, who is 33 and works in Rockville, Md., is an assistant public defender for Montgomery County, Md. She graduated from Barnard College and received a law degree from the University of San Francisco.
She is a daughter of Jane Ely Pearce and John I. Pearce of Washington. The bride’s father retired as the university architect for Duke. Her mother, also retired, worked in Raleigh, N.C., as a federal public defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Mr. Zoulias, 38, is the founder of Perfecta, a technology company that focuses on cybersecurity and secure collaboration. He previously spent nine years as a special agent in the Army, and was last stationed at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, having achieved the rank of sergeant first class.
He is a son of Christine Coombs Zoulias and Charles George Zoulias of Manchester, N.H. The groom’s father owns Perfecta Wine, a wine and spirits import and distribution company in Manchester, where the groom’s mother, a former social worker, serves as human resources and personnel manager.
The couple met in September 2017 through the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel.