Molly Cordell, James Wartski

Margaret Ann Cordell and Army First Lt. James Zygmunt Wartski Jr. were married Dec. 29 at the Knowles Memorial Chapel in Winter Park, Fla. The Very Rev. Richard M. Walsh, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony. Mrs. Wartski, who is 24 and known as Molly, is a speech-language pathologist for Kidz Therapeze in Killeen,…

Katherine Duceman, Bryan Plummer

Katherine Indira Duceman and Bryan James Plummer were married Dec. 29 at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston. Rick Michalka, a friend of the couple, received temporary permission from the State of Massachusetts to officiate. The couple met at Columbia, where the bride received a master’s in public administration and the groom a master’s in international…

Ann Mathews, James Pereira

Ann Liz Murugi Mathews and James Francis Pereira were married Dec. 29 at the Roundhouse, an events space in Beacon, N.Y. Matthew Pellegrini, a friend of the couple and a Universal Life minister, officiated. The bride, 30, is a managing director at Goldman Sachs in Manhattan. She graduated from Duke. She is a daughter of…

Our Best Wedding Proposals in 2018

Image CreditFederica Del Proposto Marriage proposal stories submitted to The New York Times’s Society News Desk in 2018 ranged from spontaneous to well-scripted, though the jumbled manner in which a man from Illinois went about asking the love of his life to be his wife was truly puzzling. Proposal getaways were a popular theme this…

Medical News Today: How coffee might protect against Parkinson’s

Coffee is thought to protect the brain against Parkinson’s disease. A recent study investigates which compounds might give coffee its neuroprotective powers. The findings may eventually lead to innovative new treatments. Understanding how coffee protects the brain could give Parkinson’s drug discovery a boost. More than 60,000 people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in the…