Joanna Rose Genco and Dr. Christian Joseph Zaino were married Feb. 23 at the Shrine Church of St. Bernadette in Brooklyn. The Rev. Glenn Sudano, a Roman Catholic priest and a cousin of the groom, performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Zaino, 31, is a registered nurse in the Morristown, N.J., office of Garden State Urology, a group practice based in Whippany, N.J. She graduated from Hunter College, and received an associate degree in nursing from Phillips School of Nursing at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in Manhattan and a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Texas at Arlington.
She is a daughter of Phyllis J. Genco and Joseph S. Genco of Brooklyn. The bride’s father, a retired dental technician, oversaw Genco Restorations, a dental laboratory in Brooklyn.
Dr. Zaino, 34, is an orthopedic hand surgeon at the Orthopedic Institute of New Jersey in Morristown. He graduated magna cum laude from N.Y.U., from which he also received a medical degree.
He is the son of Anita R. Zaino and Barney B. Zaino of Brooklyn. The groom’s father, who is retired, owned Dental Connections, a dental equipment and servicing company in Brooklyn.
The bride and groom, who each grew up in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, met in 2009 at NYU Langone Medical Center while Ms. Genco worked for one of Dr. Zaino’s mentors. Five years later, after Dr. Zaino contacted the NYU Langone office, where she was still working, to do some research, she asked him out for a drink just to catch up. Instead, he asked her out to dinner in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
