Wedding Date on Feb 8, 2020

In her 20’s, Dr. Carmelle Tsai thought she might spend her life as an unmarried physician and create a family out of the children and communities she served around the world. However, her real hope was that she would find a partner, specifically someone tall, lanky, athletic, at least a little bit nerdy (she describes herself as very nerdy) and Christian. “He needed to be a man who loved Jesus with all his heart,” she said. Dr. Tsai, 33, is a pediatric emergency medicine and global health fellow at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She spends part of her time working in the hospital and the other part as a traveling physician helping vulnerable children in Africa and India, among other places, with a particular interest in victims of trafficking. From jet lag to seeing children with serious illnesses, nothing seems to dim her ebullient personality. “I feel like being in the E.R. is a box of chocolates,” she said. “You just don’t know what you’re going to get.” In May 2017, she was texting with Dr. Rachel Davis, a friend and fellow physician who is also interested in global health. “I’m pretty sure I was in Tanzania at the time and Carmelle had just returned from Laos,” Dr. Davis said. Dr. Tsai had mentioned that she wished she had a boyfriend to pick her up at the airport, and maybe also to walk her adopted dog, Dash, when she traveled. “Well, I only have one single Christian guy friend left,” Dr. Davis texted back. This was Dr. Bradley Wallace, who is 33 and a chief general surgery resident at the University of Colorado in Denver. He grew up in Houston, and he is so tall he tends to bow his head slightly. “He’s nerdy,” Dr. Tsai wrote in an email. “He loves Star Wars and he used to do computer modeling of supernovas.” ...continued on