Mumu Xu and Joseph Evan Borson were married March 30 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. Mirosia Martin, a friend of the bride who was designated as a temporary officiant by the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, officiated. Jesse Cohen, a friend of the groom, took part in the ceremony.
Dr. Xu, 33, is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the department of aerospace engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park. She graduated from Harvard and received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
She is a daughter of Yuhuan Wang and Shizhong Xu of Riverside, Calif. The bride’s father is a professor of botany and plant sciences at the University of California, Riverside. The bride’s mother is a technician in the Stem Cell Center at the University of California, Riverside.
Mr. Borson, also 33, is a trial lawyer for the civil division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington. He graduated magna cum laude from Brown and received a law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard.
He is a son of Dr. Linda S. Borson and Dr. Andrew J. Borson of Broomall, Pa. The groom’s mother is a psychologist and his father is a neuropsychologist. Both have private practices with offices in Broomall and at Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park, Pa.
The couple met in 2016 through the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel.
