Fannie Yunru Chen and Thomas Christman Rice were married Sept. 15 at the Crow’s Nest, a hotel and events space in Montauk, N.Y. The Rev. Robert M. Pennoyer II, an Episcopal priest, officiated.
The couple met at Columbia, from which they each received a law degree.
The bride, 33, is a director and counsel at Blue Apron, a meal kit service in New York. She graduated from Stanford. From 2007 to 2008, she was a Fulbright fellow in Beijing at the Renmin University of China, where she studied public health education.
She is the daughter of Yan Liu and Jiade Chen of Cranbury, N.J. The bride’s father is a principal software engineer in the Florham Park, N.J., office of Siemens Industry, an industrial manufacturing company based in Munich. Her mother is a database administrator at McCarter Theater Center, a nonprofit performing arts company located on the campus of Princeton.
The groom, 30, known as Chris, is a law clerk for Judge Helene N. White of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Detroit. He graduated from Brown.
He is a son of Cheryl A. Christman and Thomas C. Rice of Armonk, N.Y. The groom’s mother works as a risk manager at the Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y. His father, who is retired, was a partner and a co-head of the litigation department at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York.
