Sarah Rose Berkley and Dr. Jonathan Simon Abelson were married Nov. 3 at the Edgewood Country Club in River Vale, N.J. Cantor emeritus Mark Biddelman officiated.
The bride, 34, is a consultant for NFP, a benefits consulting firm in New York. She graduated cum laude from Tulane and received a master’s degree in public health from Hunter College in New York.
She is the daughter of Elaine G. Berkley and Roger L. Berkley, of Naples, Fla. The bride’s father, who is retired, was the chief executive and the owner of the Weave Corporation, a textile manufacturing company that was in Hackensack, N.J. He also served as the chairman of the National Textile Association. The bride’s mother, who is retired, was a physical education teacher at the Sarah J. Hale High School in New York.
The groom, 33, is a chief resident in surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine in New York. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received a medical degree from the University of Virginia. He received a master’s degree in clinical epidemiology and health services research from the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences.
He is a son of Dr. Michelle S. Mirsky and Dr. David C. Abelson of New York. Both the groom’s mother and father are dentists in private practice together in New York. The groom’s mother is also an associate clinical professor at the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and serves as the president of the college’s alumni association.
The couple met through a dating app in New York in 2015. They had their first date at the Press Box restaurant and pub to watch the Mets play the Kansas City Royals in the World Series that year.
