Kaitlin Mary Oujo and Niels Peter Lesniewski were married Oct. 12. The Rev. Rebekah A. Savage, a Unitarian Universalist minister, performed the ceremony at All Souls Church in Washington. Ms. Oujo, 30, is a foreign-affairs specialist in Washington, working on nonproliferation issues, at the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration. She graduated cum laude from…
Chelsey Max Amelkin and Matthew Alexander Wasserman were married Oct. 11 at Frankies 457 Spuntino, a restaurant in Brooklyn. Ian Marcus Amelkin, the bride’s brother who is a Universal Life minister, officiated. The couple, both lawyers in Manhattan, met at New York University, from which each received a law degree, he magna cum laude. Ms.…
Michelle Elizabeth Howell and Maxwell Israel Unterhalter were married Oct. 12 in an outdoor ceremony at Swank Farms in Loxahatchee, Fla. Michael Tannenbaum, a friend of the couple and a Universal Life minister, officiated. The bride, 24, is a professional runner based in Arlington, Va. She is a member of the District Track Club in…
LAS VEGAS — On Las Vegas Boulevard, nestled between a motel and tattoo parlor, sits what may be the most famous marriage site in the world: A Little White Wedding Chapel. Charolette Richards, the chapel’s owner and an originator of the 10-minute wedding ceremony, said she has had her hand in more than 50,000 weddings…
Erica Lynn Kilbride and Eric Ronald Obenzinger were married Oct. 12 at the Prospect Park Boathouse in Brooklyn. Gabriel Hernandez, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated. The bride, 32, is a data science solution principal at Slalom Consulting, a technical and business management consultant in Manhattan.…
Michal Lauren Rosenoer and Patrick Byrne Massaro were married outdoors on Oct. 5 at Turner Farm in Buena Vista, Colo. Nicholas Massaro, an uncle of the groom and a retired chief justice for Mesa County, Colo., officiated. The bride, 31, is the executive director for Emerge Colorado, a Denver-based organization that recruits and trains Democratic…
[This is the Love Letter newsletter. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. ] This week in Love Letter, our newsletter about the highs, lows and woes of relationships, we find out how dating as an ob-gyn can accelerate all things awkward and inappropriate when getting to know someone new. And if you’re…
The first time Jennifer Hindieh saw Alexander Najman, she wished he would go away. Instead, after bumming a Marlboro off her in September 2011 at Long Island University, he stuck around and tried to strike up a conversation. “I was lost in thought,” she said. After fishing a cigarette out of the pack and handing…
When Danielle and James Ellerby show off photos from their 2018 wedding, they have a bit of explaining to do. It’s not because the couple, who live in Halifax, England, eloped while on vacation in New York City. It’s because their witnesses were two strangers in T-shirts and running shoes. “Who are these two random…
Rebecca Jonas Tanenbaum and William Henry Lacey IV were married Oct. 5 at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, S.C. Judge Loretta A. Preska of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York officiated. Mrs. Lacey, 37, is the founder and owner of Mise En Place Public Relations, a communications…