Dr. Julia Leigh Freling and Dr. Chinedu Ndubisi Madu were married Sept. 29 by Rabbi Barbara Paris at the Heritage Club at Bethpage, an events space in Farmingdale, N.Y. An Igbo wine-carry celebration, a traditional Nigerian wedding ceremony where the bride carries a cup of palm wine to the groom, was held on Sept. 28 at the Melville Marriott in Melville, N.Y.
The couple met at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, from which they each received a medical degree.
The bride, 29, is a fourth-year chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Northwell Health in Manhasset, N.Y. She graduated from Emory University.
She is the daughter of Stacey J. Freling and Dr. Clifford B. Freling of Avon, Conn. The bride’s father is an interventional radiologist and partner at Radiology Associates of Hartford.
The groom, 31, who is known as ChiChi, is a hospitalist at NYU Langone Medical Center. He graduated from Cornell and received a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern.
He is a son of Dr. Assumpta A. Madu and Christian N. Madu of Fairfield, Conn. The groom’s mother is an ophthalmologist at NYU Langone Health and vice chairman for education in ophthalmology. His father is a professor in management science at Pace University.
