Dr. Erin Denise Hanft and Dr. Benjamin Stuart Mantell were married June 15. Cantor Lucy B. Fishbein officiated at the Ryland Inn, a restaurant and events space in Whitehouse Station, N.J.
The bride and groom both work in New York at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, which is part of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital system. She is a neonatology fellow and he is a pediatric cardiology fellow.
Dr. Hanft, 33, graduated from Tufts and received a medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in New Brunswick, N.J.
She is a daughter of William G. Hanft of Livingston, N.J., and the late Carol S. Scharf. The bride’s father is of counsel at Gennet, Kallmann, Antin, Sweetman & Nichols, a law firm in Parsippany, N.J. The bride is also a stepdaughter of Lisa R. Walzer.
Dr. Mantell, 35, graduated from Brown and received both a medical degree and a doctoral degree, in biochemistry and molecular genetics, from the University of Pittsburgh. In July, he is begin an advanced fellowship in pediatric cardiomyopathy, heart failure and transplant, also at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.
He is the son of Nanette Weitman Mantell and Joseph B. Mantell of Bridgewater, N.J. The groom’s mother retired as a partner, in Princeton, N.J., in the law firm Reed Smith. His father retired as a director for information management at Johnson & Johnson, the diversified health care company in New Brunswick, N.J.
The couple met in 2016, after it emerged that Dr. Mantell, out to dinner celebrating completing medical boards with four other people, was the only one at the table who didn’t know Dr. Hanft. He texted her that evening and they went out a few days later.
