Theresa Youngjoo Kim and Captain Nathan Harold Parrish renewed their wedding vows September 1 in Seattle, Washington. The couple was married on February 23 in Las Vegas, Nevada, when Parrish was reactivated.##M:[more]##
“We initially met playing Ultimate Frisbee in autumn, 2006,” Kim says. “However, we did not really speak to each other until one month later when our mutual friend and groomsman, Andy Morabito, hosted a James Bond Trivia Night right before the midnight screening of Casino Royale.” Kim admits that the only reason she attended was because she had a crush on Morabito, and in fact, she was annoyed at her future husband for sitting between them at the cinema. “Fortunately, my initial lack of an interest posed as a fun challenge for Nathan,” she says.
The bride is the daughter of B. Sung Kim and Kyung Mi Min Kim of West Windsor. Born in Princeton, she graduated from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School, Class of 1997. She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and French from Bryn Mawr College in 2001, and graduated with a master’s in statistics from University of Washington-Seattle School of Public Health and Community Medicine in 2006. Kim, a clinical research statistician at a small biotech firm in Seattle, Washington, volunteers weekly at infectious disease prevention clinic for King County Public Health.
The groom is the son of Harold Parrish and Margaret Parrish of Rusk, Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the United States Military Academy in 2001. A Rhodes Scholar nominee, he was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant and stationed at Ft. Lewis, Washington in 2001. A communications officer in the Military Police Battalion in 2003-2004 while stationed in Iraq (days after the invasion) and was later awarded a Bronze Star Medal.
He joined the Individual Ready Reserve in 2006 and began graduate studies in electrical engineering at the University of Washington-Seattle College of Engineering as a National Department Science and Engineering Research Scholar.
“We chose to marry immediately in February when Nathan received orders to report to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, to return to Iraq for a second tour,” she says. “We wanted to celebrate our marriage with family and friends present as our parents could not attend our marriage in Las Vegas.”
