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Leela Hauser, Justin Bozonelis

Leela May Hauser and Justin Koutras Bozonelis were married July 21. The Rev. John Vlahos, performed the ceremony at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York, where he is the dean, with the Rev. Alexander Karloutsos, another Greek Orthodox priest, among those taking part.

Mrs. Bozonelis, 32, is the global marketing director for media intelligence at LexisNexis, the legal and business information provider, in New York. She graduated from Champlain College in Burlington, Vt.

She is a daughter of Sue E. Hauser and Edward P. Hauser of Topsham, Me. The bride’s father is a senior planner at Bath Iron Works, a shipyard in Bath, Me., and a subsidiary of General Dynamics. Her mother retired as an administrative assistant at Mount Ararat Middle School in Topsham.

Mr. Bozonelis, 42, is a managing director at Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services firm in New York, and is in charge of raising money for hedge funds in the United States. He graduated from N.Y.U.

He is the son of A. Helen Bozonelis and B. Theodore Bozonelis of Chatham, N.J. The groom’s mother retired as an editor in the education division, in Parsippany, N.J., of Pearson, a British book publisher, and is also the author of “200 Years with Abraham Lincoln: One Man’s Life and Legacy,” (Enslow Publishing, 2008) and other history books for children. His father retired as the assignment judge for Morris and Sussex counties of the New Jersey State Superior Court; his chambers were in Morristown, N.J.

The groom and his father are both archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the groom’s father is the national secretary of the group, which is known as the Order of St. Andrew the Apostle. The groom is also a trustee of the endowment fund that supports Greek Orthodox ministries in the United States, and the first vice president of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.

The couple met in 2015 at the coat check of a New York bar that she was leaving and he was entering. “I literally stopped and introduced myself,” Mr. Bozonelis said. "I was just taken with her beauty and her smile — she has a phenomenal smile.” They had their first date a few months later.

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section ST, Page 14 of the New York edition with the headline: Leela Hauser, Justin Bozonelis. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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