Julia Claire Pucci and Matthew Christopher Dudley were married March 14 at the home of the bride’s parents in Water Mill, N.Y. Rabbi Laurie Gold officiated.
The couple met at Yale, from which the bride, 28, graduated and is currently studying for a Ph.D. in Italian language and literature. The groom, 27, is pursuing a Ph.D. in history there.
The bride also received two other degrees from Yale, a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy, both in Italian language and literature, and the groom holds an M.A. in European and Russian Studies, also from Yale. The bride’s doctoral work focuses on testimony, historiography, and storytelling in postwar Italy. The groom’s research explores language and identity in the early, modern Mediterranean.
The bride is the daughter of Linda M. Pucci and Edward L. Pucci of Water Mill, N.Y. Her parents own Water Mill Masonry, a construction company whose buildings are mostly throughout Suffolk County.
The groom graduated from St. Lawrence University in 2014, after which he served as a Global Academic Fellow at N.Y.U. Abu-Dhabi.
He is the son of Jill M. Dudley and William A. Dudley of Manlius, N.Y. The groom’s mother is a social worker at the Salvation Army in Syracuse, N.Y. His father, who goes by Andrew, works as an accountant in private practice in Norwich, N.Y.
The couple met in 2016 in the Romance Language Lounge at Yale.