Maureen Lucy Mackenzie and Glenn Alan Ruppel were married June 22 at St. Paul’s Chapel in New York. The Rev. Kristin Kaulbach Miles, an Episcopal priest, officiated.
Dr. Mackenzie-Ruppel, 59, is the dean of the School of Business at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, N.Y., from which she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in business and psychology. She received an M.B.A. in total quality management from Dowling College, which was in Oakdale, N.Y., and a doctorate in information studies from Long Island University, C. W. Post campus. She is on the board of the Northeast Business & Economic Association in Newport, R.I., a nonprofit focusing on professional research and scholarship in education.
She is a daughter of the late Mary Kenny and the late Dennis P. Kenny, who lived in Baldwin, N.Y. The bride’s father was a manager at AT&T in Parsippany, N.J. Her mother, a stay-at-home parent, then worked part-time as a salesperson at Macy’s at Roosevelt Field in Garden City, N.Y.
Mr. Ruppel, 57, is a producer at “20/20,” the ABC newsmagazine, where until 2013 he was a senior producer for “The Lookout,” a consumer investigative program. His investigative stories have focused on false advertising, health care fraud, clashes over free speech and gun safety for children. He graduated from N.Y.U.
He is a son of Barbara L. Ruppel and Robert F. Ruppel of Glen Cove, N.Y. The groom’s mother retired as the reading coordinator at Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School in Roosevelt, N.Y. His father worked in Hauppauge, N.Y., as the chief engineer at Cashin Systems, a maker of slicing and weighing equipment for the meatpacking industry.
The bride’s previous two marriage ended in divorce, as did the groom’s previous marriage.
The couple were introduced in 2016 through the dating app OkCupid, and a week later they said it was love at first sight on their first date at Rio Grande restaurant in the Murray Hill section of New York, where she nodded a lot and whispered a few words here and there because she had laryngitis.
