Karen Aline McKinnon and Christopher Jerome Wnuk are to be married Sept. 16 at the Sunrise Amphitheater, an outdoor events space in Boulder, Colo. The couple will self-solemnize their marriage ceremony. H. Patrick Furman, a professor emeritus of law at the University of Colorado Boulder, is to lead them in their vows.
In November, the bride, 30, is to start as an assistant professor in the department of statistics and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received a master’s degree in geophysics from the Victoria University of Wellington in Wellington, New Zealand. She received both a Master of Arts degree and a Ph.D. in earth and planetary sciences from Harvard.
She is the daughter of Genevieve Devaud and J. Thomas McKinnon, both of Boulder. The bride’s father is a chemical engineering professor emeritus at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo. Her mother is a principal scientist at Ball Aerospace, a spacecraft manufacturer in Boulder.
The groom, 34, is a technology general manager at Meow Wolf, a company that makes interactive art experiences in Santa Fe, N.M. He graduated from Ithaca College.
He is the son of Donna L. Wnuk and Bruce J. Wnuk of Succasunna, N.J. The groom’s mother is a United States postal worker in Stanhope, N.J. The groom’s father is a corporate account executive in the Elmwood Park, N.J., office of Agfa-Gevaert, a print industry supplier based in Mortsel, Belgium.
The couple met in 2011 at a housewarming party in New Zealand. They reconnected three years later in New York.
