Donna Pennestri and Chris Loren Day were married Oct. 13 at the Belmond El Encanto, a hotel in Santa Barbara, Calif. Howard Bernstein, a Universal Life minister and friend of the couple, officiated.
Mrs. Pennestri-Day, 50, is the associate publisher of Variety, the entertainment trade publication in Los Angeles. She graduated from Boston University.
She is the daughter of Annette Sparacino of Kings Park, N.Y., and Phillip Pennestri Sr. of Santa Barbara. The bride’s father retired as an owner of dry-cleaning stores in the New York area.
Mr. Day, 52, is a strategic communications consultant in Los Angeles. He is the son of Ursula B. Day and Loren A. Day, both of New York. The groom’s mother is an intellectual property lawyer in private practice in New York. His father, a retired biophysicist, was a member of the Public Health Research Institute in New York. Dr. Day studied the physics of biological structures. The groom is also the stepson of Mary Jo Berger, a retired elementary schoolteacher in the New York City public school system.
The couple first met at the Women in Film Crystal & Lucy Awards benefit dinner in Los Angeles in June, 2006. They lost touch but met again by chance a year later at a Hollywood industry party in Malibu.
