Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Murphy of Waterford announce the engagement of their daughter, Mary Louise Murphy, to Dauris Rafael Hernandez, son of Rafael A. and Flavia Hernandez of New London.

Mary graduated from Ella T. Grasso Technical High School in 2013 with a license in cosmotology. Mary is employed with The Everlastings Organic Hair Salon in Guilford and is a lead traveling hair stylist with That Girl in Bristol. Dauris graduated from New London High School in 2010. He followed his passion in photography and videography and graduated from The Hallmark Institute of Photography in Turner Falls, Mass. in 2014. He is employed by Barnberry Productions as a videographer and the Cintas Corporation as a sales service representative in Branford.

They will be getting married in September 2017.