Kendrick and Su Zie first met in 2008 at a High School Model United Nations conference in Singapore. Kendrick was representing "Australia" while Su Zie was representing "Bolivia", so they sat next to each other. Su Zie noticed Kendrick first when he gave his opening speech mentioning how that "without change, there would be no butterflies." At the conclusion of the MUN conference, Kendrick offered to share a Häagen-Dazs Orange and Dark Chocolate ice cream with Su Zie, and that was the beginning of their beautiful long-distance relationship.
Su Zie left South East Asia to attend Johns Hopkins University in Maryland and Kendrick followed by going to Stanford University in California. They maintained their long distance relationship through college, spending time over the holidays together and establishing traditions such as their annual Friendsgiving Feast. After graduating from Hopkins, Su Zie moved to Los Angeles to be closer to Kendrick who was working at NASA Ames Research Center. Finally, living in the same state, they would visit each other over weekends: exploring new places to eat, going to Disneyland, and traveling to different areas of California together.
When Kendrick got accepted to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, he asked Su Zie to move with him after going through 8 years of long-distance dating. Su Zie and Kendrick recognized their marriage at the San Francisco City Hall, but decided to hold off a formal wedding ceremony with friends and family until after medical school. As a newlywed couple, they began a new chapter in their lives, finally living together in Baltimore, Maryland!
Kendrick and Su Zie share their love for food and travel. They traveled to almost 30 destinations together, exploring unique cultures and tasting unfamiliar cuisine in places such as Egypt, Bora Bora, Korea, Japan, France, Greece, and Mexico. Although Su Zie and Kendrick love to try local street food, their favorite restaurant through all their adventures together is Funky Gourmet in Athens, Greece. They like to bring home flavors of new and exotic dishes from abroad and try to recreate them at home together in the kitchen.
Kendrick and Su Zie moved — again! Kendrick graduated from medical school in May 2020, and he matched to Yale for Ophthalmology residency training. They are starting another chapter of their lives together and bought a beautiful home in New Haven, Connecticut, where they plan to start a family of their own. To celebrate this new chapter, Kendrick and Su Zie would love to invite you to their long-awaited wedding ceremony at San Francisco City Hall on October 22, 2022. They hope to see you there!