Eden Marie Maloney and Michael Morris Lyons were married July 13 in Stanford, Calif. The Rev. John H. Harrison, a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, performed the ceremony at Stanford Memorial Church. The couple met at the University of California, Los Angeles, from which each graduated. Mrs. Lyons, 29, is a candidate…
Yana Ankudinova and Igor Borodyansky were married July 9 at Conservatory Garden in Central Park. Tyler M. McDonald, ordained by American Marriage Ministries and a friend of the couple, officiated, incorporating Jewish traditions. The couple met at Columbia, from which each graduated. Mrs. Borodyansky, 29, is a senior product manager in Manhattan at Truveris, a…
Madeleine Page Lobrano and Jared Keith Hedglin were married July 13 at Wainwright House, an events space in Rye, N.Y. Carina R. Petillo, the sister of the groom, officiated, having become a Universal Life minister for the event. The couple met at Amherst College, from which each graduated, the bride cum laude. Mrs. Hedglin, 26,…
Asena Haznedar and Michael William Katoski were married July 13. David K. Goldstein, an affiliate of the American Marriage Ministries, officiated at the River Café in Brooklyn. The couple met at Cornell, from which each graduated. Ms. Haznedar, 32, is the assistant general counsel in the national office, in Manhattan, of the College Board, which…
Olivia Whittaker Whalen and Brian Thomas Wynne were married July 13 in Newton, Mass. The Rev. Robert F. Hawkins, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony at the Chapel of the Most Blessed Trinity at Boston College. The couple met at Boston College, from which each graduated. Ms. Whalen, 29, is the assistant director for…
Lulu Fogarty and Jason Prover were married July 12 at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan. Michael Horn, a Universal Life minister and a friend of the groom, officiated incorporating Jewish elements in the ceremony. Ms. Fogarty, 32, who is pursuing a master’s degree in educational theater at City College, was a poetry and acting teacher…
Because marriage is an ever-evolving experience, we constantly shift, change and, in some cases, start over. In It’s No Secret, couples share thoughts about commitment and tell us what they have learned along the way, revealing their secret to making it work. Who Abby Mouzakitis-Fazio, 59, and John Fazio, 70 Occupations Both are pharmacists. Together…
Hunter McGrady has not always benefited from her own no-judgment approach to people of all shapes and sizes. Before she became a plus-size model in her early 20s, she succumbed to industry pressure to be thin, at times starving herself to a level that scared her. Now Ms. McGrady, 26, has the kind of career…
A few months before Kelvin Evans married his live-in girlfriend, Pa Shoua Pha, in 2016, uncertainty gripped him. “I had convinced myself that I wasn’t going to have any more children,” said Mr. Evans, 44, the father of two boys from a previous relationship. But his girlfriend, he said, wanted to start a family and…
Vanessa Dillon, 41, is a bisexual woman marrying Bob Bissonnette, 36, a bisexual man. Each has dated people of more than one gender in the past. Not adhering to monogamy, they might continue to do so after they are married. But at their wedding, to outsiders they appear straight. “If I was marrying a woman,…