Jocelyn del Carmen and Christopher Tanabe

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The bride, 42, is taking her husband’s name. She is an ophthalmologist at and a partner in the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, a multi-specialty group practice there. She graduated from the

Dr. Jocelyn-Louise Flores del Carmen and Christopher Thomas Tanabe were married Saturday at the Stanford Memorial Church in Stanford, Calif. The Rev. Scotty McLennan, dean for religious life at Stanford University and a Unitarian Universalist minister, performed the ceremony.

The bride, 42, is taking her husband’s name. She is an ophthalmologist at and a partner in the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, a multi-specialty group practice there. She graduated from the University of Texas and received her medical degree from Harvard.

She is the daughter of Josefa Flores del Carmen and Rolando del Carmen of Huntsville, Tex. Her mother retired as a secretary in the Office of Student Life at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, where her father is a criminal justice professor.

The bridegroom, 41, is an engineer who manages a software team at the Oracle Corporation, suppliers of software for information management, in Redwood Shores, Calif. He graduated from Stanford.

He is a son of Joanne Tanabe and Thomas M. Tanabe of Cupertino, Calif. The bridegroom’s father, a retired chemical and materials engineer, worked in Sunnyvale, Calif., for the Lockheed Martin Corporation.