Wedding
Luyuan Jia & Albert Allen
October 22, 2017
Luyuan Jia, Foshan, Canton Province, China, and Albert R. Allen, Yorktown, Va., were married at 12 p.m., October 22, at the Resident's Clubhouse of the Settlement at Powhatan Creek, Williamsburg, Va. Clifton Brigham performed the double-ring ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Bin Jia and Shaobi Ye, Foshan, Canton Province, China. The groom is the son of John and Sheila Allen, Vienna, and Cathy Allen, Jefferson City. The attendants were Agata Przekop, Yorktown, Va., friend of the bride; Sofya Zaytseva, Williamsburg, Va., friend of the bride; and Josslyn Gui, Williamsburg, Va., friend of the bride. The groomsmen included Corey Martin, Jefferson City, step-brother of the groom; Dustin Martin, Porterville, Calif., step-brother of the groom; and Xirui Chen, San Francisco, Calif., cousin of the bride. A lunch and dance reception followed the ceremony at the Resident's Clubhouse of the Settlement at Powhatan Creek, Williamsburg, Va. The bride is a 2016 graduate of William and Mary Law School, Williamsburg, Va., with a degree of Master of Laws (LL.M.). The groom is a 1999 graduate of Helias High School, Jefferson City, a 2005 graduate of University of Missouri-Science and Technology, Rolla, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a graduate of the Technical University of Denmark with a masters degree in Engineering Acoustics. He is a research engineer for NASA - Langley Research Center. The couple resides in Yorktown, Va.