David Allen Sakowitz and Eddie Nelson Torres Jr. were married Oct. 27 at Owls Hoot Barn, an events space in West Coxsackie, N.Y. Rabbi Joel M. Mosbacher officiated.
Mr. Sakowitz (left), 48, is a partner in Winston & Strawn, a law firm in Manhattan. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton and received a law degree from Harvard.
He is the son of the late Karen A. Sakowitz and the late Julius J. Sakowitz, who lived in Brooklyn. Mr. Sakowitz’s mother was a special-education teacher at Public School 36 in Brooklyn. His father was a court clerk at the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Mr. Torres, 32, who is changing his surname to Sakowitz, is a patient services manager at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. He is also pursuing a master’s degree in nutrition science at Brooklyn College, from which he graduated.
He is a son of Aida Rodríguez García of Orlando, Fla., and Mr. Torres Sr. of the Bronx. Mr. Torres’s mother works in Orlando as a claims review examiner for Asurion, a mobile technology insurance company. His father, who is retired, was a maintenance worker based in the Bronx for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
The couple met in 2011 at an Upper East Side bar in Manhattan, and last fall Mr. Sakowitz proposed at the summit of Mount Scott in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma.
