Charlotte Alter and Mark Chiusano were married May 18 in the backyard of the bride’s parent’s home in Montclair, N.J. Amanda Claybaugh, who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated, incorporating Jewish traditions.
The couple met at Harvard, from which they each graduated, she cum laude and he magna cum laude.
Ms. Alter, 29, is based in Manhattan as a national correspondent for Time magazine covering politics.
She is a daughter of Emily Lazar and Jonathan Alter. The bride’s father is an author and MSNBC political analyst, and until 2011 a columnist at Newsweek. He has written three books about American presidents and is a director of the 2019 HBO documentary “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists.” Until 2016 her mother was an executive producer of “The Colbert Report” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS.
Mr. Chiusano, 28, is a columnist and an editorial writer for Newsday and AM New York. He is the author of “Marine Park” (Penguin Books, 2014), a collection of short stories.
He is a son of Mary Chiusano and Ken Chiusano of Brooklyn. The groom’s mother works at Brooklyn College as the program manager for Star, an early college high school, and is also an adjunct math instructor at the college. His father retired as the chair of English at Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School, which was in Brooklyn.
The couple met in 2008 in the laundry room of their freshman dorm at Harvard. But they did not start dating until senior year in 2011, when they both took a coming-of-age novel seminar taught by Professor Claybaugh. In 2018, Mr. Chiusano got on one knee to propose at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The kiss that soon followed was witnessed by a small girl on a pink scooter, who shouted “Ewww.”
