Lauren Summer May and Ryan Michael Adams are to be married Oct. 21 at the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York. James Puglisi, a Universal Life minister and friend of the couple, is to lead a ceremony incorporating Jewish and Christian traditions.
The couple met at Harvard Divinity School, from which they each received a master’s degree in theological studies, she focusing on religions of the Americas and he on early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism.
Ms. May, 30, is the housing advocate at the Coalition for the Homeless, where she assists homeless adults living with psychiatric diagnoses in accessing supportive housing and services. She graduated magna cum laude from St. Edward’s University and received a Master of Social Work from N.Y.U.
She is a daughter of Nona J. May of Kyle, Tex., and Gary M. May of Austin, Tex. The bride’s father is a capital markets specialist at the Texas Department of Banking in Austin. Her mother is a school counselor at James Bowie High School, also in Austin.
Mr. Adams, 28, is the founder of HZQ Consulting, a digital strategy agency that provides digital marketing and advertising services to start-ups, small businesses, and political campaigns in New York. He is on the board of the Emergency Shelter Network of Faith-Based Communities, which helps find temporary shelter for the homeless, and he is a director of the Young Citizens Committee for New York City, a group of young professionals helping those in need. He graduated cum laude from Fordham.
He is the son of Susan Schwartz Adams of Boynton Beach, Fla., and Patrick K. Adams of Plainview, N.Y. The groom’s father is the branch manager of the Babylon, N.Y., office of Wells Fargo Advisors, a financial services firm. His mother is a teacher aide in the media center at Congress Middle School in Boynton Beach.
Although the couple met in 2011 at their Harvard orientation, and became fast friends, they did not begin dating until a year later.
