This Bride Gave Her Orthopedic Surgeon Groom Broken (and Surgically Repaired) Femur Cufflinks

Jul. 03, 2019

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Korie Zink and Rohan Gopinath tied the knot at the Silver Swan Bayside on November 10, 2018.

Jay Moore Photography

FRIENDS WITH SCRUBS

After meeting at a University of Michigan Medical School admitted-students weekend in 2013, Korie Zink and Rohan Gopinath became fast friends. But it wasn’t until their second year of medical school that the future emergency medicine physician and orthopedic surgeon realized that their relationship had suffered from a misdiagnosis. They both had chronic heart conditions that required immediate intervention: they had to date!

FIANCÉS FIRST, DOCTORS SECOND

Two years later, in October 2017, Rohan proposed at the university’s Matthaei Botanical Gardens, although the real milestone had come months earlier,

when the pair decided to couples match for their residency programs. It was a big commitment: in order to do their residencies in the same location, they had to risk matching with a lower ranked program than they might get if they matched on their own. Fortunately, both landed their first-choice programs, with Korie at Johns Hopkins and Rohan at the University of Maryland.

THE EASTERN SHORE WEDDING

To celebrate their new life in Baltimore, Korie and Rohan planned a destination wedding at Silver Swan Bayside. “We loved the idea of being on the water and the intimate feel of the dining hall,” Korie says. They had guests travel all the way from

India for the ceremony, which included both of their dads. Korie’s father got ordained online so he could perform the secular ceremony, while Rohan’s father helped guide the couple through the complicated steps of the Hindu ceremony.

THE MULTICULTURAL EXPERIENCE

Although Korie enjoyed selecting her flowers and making other decor decisions, her biggest priority was to create a multicultural experience that honored her husband’s family. For the ceremony, Korie wore a traditional Indian dupatta scarf and a tikka headpiece. The pair also handpicked songs for their wedding playlist that would resonate with both their friends from medical school and their Indian guests. They hired two caterers to ensure everyone had something they liked to eat, offering a hybrid buffet that featured both chicken tikka masala and Flamant’s seared salmon.

A DRESS THAT BENEFITS

Korie found her dress at The Brides Project, a consignment shop in Ann Arbor that benefits a local cancer support nonprofit. “I loved the idea of having my wedding dress also be a donation to charity,” she says. Though she never imagined she would wear a ballgown for her wedding day, she fell in love when she tried the dress on.

CLEVER CUFFLINKS

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Continuing with the medical theme, Korie surprised Rohan with a pair of gold cufflinks that had a broken femur for one wrist and a surgically repaired femur for the other. For her gift, Korie dropped a big hint in advance about a certain bracelet she wanted.

THE RIGHT SONG

Korie and Rohan’s first dance was to “Say You Won’t Let Go” by James Arthur. They practiced dancing to a bunch of different songs before settling on the pop hit. “I always just felt so strongly during that song,” Korie says. “It’s somewhat light-hearted, but speaks so much to how we feel about each other and was an amazing song to hold each other to during our first dance.”

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