The Jewish Prenuptial Gets an Artsy Update

In a Jewish marriage, the modern-day ketubah, a prenuptial agreement, is standard and unorthodox. The traditional ketubah outlined the responsibilities within a couple’s union. It was typically written in Aramaic, signed by two witnesses and geared toward Jewish heterosexual couples. But the document has evolved, just like the idea of marriage. “The ketubah in its…

Honeymoon Hashtag Hell

If you ask JP Smith what he remembers most about his 2014 honeymoon in Aruba, he’ll say the sunsets, but not because of their beauty. “It was like a photo shoot for some magazine that would never exist,” said Mr. Smith, 38, a real estate agent in New York, and he didn’t mean that in…

Tarini Parti, Ryan Barber

Tarini Parti and Charles Ryan Barber were married June 15 at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley, a hotel in Raleigh, N.C. Lalitha Achutuni, a Hindu priest, officiated. The bride and groom graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where they met while working on the school newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel. Ms.…

Caroline Nype, Adam Parker

Caroline Foley Nype and Adam Harris Parker were married June 15 at the Metropolitan Club in New York. Peter Webster, the bride’s stepfather who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. Mrs. Parker, 30, is a director of e-commerce for Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th. She graduated from Lehigh. She is the daughter…

Maya Lentz, Michael Cohen

Maya Dimant Lentz and Michael Jacob Cohen are to be married June 16 at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Conn. Rabbi Rami Schwartzer is to officiate. The bride, 33, is a visiting associate professor of clinical law and a Friedman Fellow at the Prisoner & Reentry Clinic at George Washington University…

Meredith Clark, Avi Millman

Meredith Nicole Clark and Abraham David Millman were married June 15 at Maison May, a restaurant and events space in Brooklyn. Jordan R. L. Bullard, the bride’s brother-in-law and an affiliate of American Marriage Ministries, officiated. The bride, 34, is a program manager for technical services in the London office of Google. She graduated with…

Janna Levin, Matthew Spaiser

Janna Beth Levin and Matthew Edward Spaiser are to be married June 16 at the Briarcliff Manor in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Rabbi Fishel Zaklos is to officiate. The bride, 34, is a senior staff lawyer at Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A in Williamsburg, where she represents low-income families and works to prevent evictions in housing…