Second Lt. Judith Yee Li and Second Lt. Nathan Raymond Lee, who both serve in the Army, were married Friday at the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne in Florida. The Rev. Milan R. Kralik a minister of the United Church of Christ, officiated.

The bride, 22, and the bridegroom, 23, are assigned to the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment in Vilseck, Germany, where she is an intelligence officer and he is an infantry officer. They graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where they met.

The bride, who is taking her husband’s name, is a daughter of Yee Choi Chan-Li and Dr. Dai Jun Li of Clarksville, Md.

The bridegroom is the son of Kendra L. Lee and Grover N. Lee of Central Point, Ore.

The couple met in January 2008, when she was a plebe and he was assigned to be her mentor for a semester. According to regulations, she was not allowed to call him by his first name until the semester ended.

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“At the time, I saw her as unattainable,” Lieutenant Lee said. “I thought she was beautiful, intelligent and very ambitious, but a relationship wouldn’t have been appropriate.”