When Ms. Zhou told her parents, Gary and Lily Zhou, of Shrewsbury, about the engagement, “it was a shock,” she said. “But they’ve come to terms with it. I’ve always been pretty independent.”
Mr. Zhou, the head of histotechnology at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, walked his daughter down the aisle in Westhampton and kissed her cheek before she and Dr. Wallack exchanged vows. Cynthia's mother is a research associate at University of Massachusetts Medical School.