Wilson McClelland Dunlavey and Victor Chang Eng were married Aug. 7. in Santa Barbara, Calif. Conn Abel, a deputy commissioner of civil marriages at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, officiated. On Aug. 10, the couple also exchanged rings and vows in a ceremony led by Emily Jirout, a childhood friend of Mr. Dunlavey, at Rancho La Zaca, a vineyard in Los Olivos, Calif.
Mr. Dunlavey, 38, works in San Francisco as a class action lawyer at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, a nationally recognized plaintiffs’ law firm, where he specializes in large-scale environmental litigation. Mr. Dunlavey graduated from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md. He received a doctoral degree in German history from Humboldt University in Berlin, and a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
Mr. Dunlavey is a son of the late Dare L. Dunlavey and the late Thomas J. Dunlavey of Sarasota, Fla.
Mr. Eng, 31, works as a product specialist for YouTube in San Bruno, Calif. Mr. Eng graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and received an M.B.A. with honors from Columbia Business School.
Mr. Eng is a son of Vivian Y. Chang and Wai G. Eng of New York.
The couple first met in 2018 on New Year’s Day in San Francisco over squid ink noodles. They became a couple within a few months, just after Mr. Dunlavey successfully made dumplings from scratch with Mr. Eng’s mother.
