Emily June Ruppert and Dr. Garrick Hartley Anderson were married Sept. 15 in Baltimore. Alexander C. Emmer, a friend of the couple who was ordained by American Marriage Ministries for this event, officiated at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Mrs. Anderson, 35, is known as June. Until June, she was a senior project manager, working on information technology security, at Laureate Education, a company in Baltimore that offers online college courses. Later this month, she is to become a program coordinator at the Health Sciences Innovation Center of West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va.; she will be working on events coordination, promotions and marketing. She graduated from the University of Maryland.
She is a daughter of Sally Price Ruppert and John H. Ruppert of Towson, Md. The bride’s father, a professor of art at the University of Maryland, is a sculptor whose work is represented by C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore. Her mother retired as the senior development director at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Dr. Anderson, 34, is in the internship year of an emergency-medicine residency at J. W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. He graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South, and received a medical degree in May from the University of Maryland.
He is a son of Bryony J. Anderson and Frederick M. Anderson of Langata, Kenya. The groom’s parents retired as the proprietors of the Giraffe Manor, a hotel outside of Nairobi, in Langata. The groom’s mother is the chairwoman of Friends of the Nairobi National Park. His father is a director of the Giraffe Center in Nairobi.
The couple met in June 2013, late one night in the Fells Point section of Baltimore. Ms. Ruppert was celebrating her birthday at Max’s Taphouse and was waiting for friends to obtain after-hours hot dogs from a place across the street when Dr. Anderson spotted her being chatted up by an unsuitable suitor. “Garrick swooped in because he felt I needed rescuing,” she said.
“I saw her being accosted verbally by a very drunk older man, and she was being nice enough to entertain his nonsense,” he said. “So I kind of wandered up to her.”
The two talked for a few minutes after the man walked away. They then exchanged numbers, “and a couple of days later started texting and calling and developing a relationship,” she said.
