Dr. Lauren Frances Allison and David Aran Sandor Minchin are to be married Sept. 9 in Larchmont, N.Y. Alan D. Marrus, a retired justice of the New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, is to officiate at the Larchmont Yacht Club.
Dr. Allison, 30, is a pediatrician and a partner in Willows Pediatrics, a group medical practice in Westport, Conn. She graduated summa cum laude from Wellesley College, and received a medical degree from Dartmouth.
The bride is a daughter of Robert F. Allison of Redding, Conn., and the late Frances Shannon Allison. The bride’s father owns Dr. Mike’s Ice Cream, a storefront and manufacturer in Bethel, Conn. Her mother was a vice president for mergers and acquisitions at GTE, which was in Stamford, Conn.
Mr. Allison, 34, is a candidate for a doctoral degree in international relations at Yale. His doctoral research concerns the American military, specifically how being good at fighting conventional wars has made it more difficult to secure victory in counterinsurgency campaigns. He graduated summa cum laude from Columbia and holds two master’s degrees in political science from Yale. From 2010 to 2014 he served in the United States Army, attaining the rank of captain, and was deployed to Ghazni Province in Afghanistan in 2013, where he oversaw security for groups of Army engineers who were engaged in detecting explosive devices along roadways.
He is a son of Deborah Boxer Minchin of New Rochelle, N.Y., and D.M. Richard Minchin of Yarmouth, England, on the Isle of Wight. The groom’s mother is an advanced-placement American government teacher at New Rochelle High School. His father, who is retired, was a vice president in New York for Chrysler Capital, which is the financial arm of the automobile company.
The couple met on OkCupid and had their first date at a coffee shop in New Haven in 2016.
