Hannah Chang Kim and James Stephen McGarry were married Sept. 14 at the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, Calif. Sanford Marshall, a minister ordained by First Nations Church and Ministry, officiated.
The bride, who is 31 and works in San Francisco, is a lawyer specializing in eviction defense with Legal Assistance to the Elderly, a legal aid firm. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and received a law degree from Georgetown.
She is the daughter of Yon Nan Hong Kim and the Rev. Pyung Lyuk Kim of San Jose, Calif. Her parents founded the Christian Life World Mission Frontier, which is based in San Jose and does missionary work in East Africa.
The groom, who is 30 and also works in San Francisco, is a senior renewable energy analyst with the California Public Utilities Commission. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, from which he also received a master’s degree in public policy.
He is the son of Dr. Laura G. McGarry and Dr. Terence M. McGarry of Pelham Manor, N.Y. The groom’s mother is an internist with the Montefiore Medical Group, a group practice in the Bronx. His father is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Elmhurst Hospital in Elmhurst, Queens.
The groom is a maternal grandson of the late M.L. Rosenthal, the poet and critic.
The couple met in 2014 in Washington, where they both were living at the time. Three years later, the groom followed the bride to California.
