Laura Johanna Sirico and Michael Jack Schanne are to be married Sept. 1 in a self-uniting ceremony at the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove in Audubon, Pa. The ceremony is to be led by Kathleen C. Sirico, the bride’s sister. Ms. Sirico, 31, is the prevention specialist providing mental health support to students…
Natalie Claire Heer and Jeremy Stein Cushman are to be married Sept. 1. Rabbi Aliza G. Berger is to officiate at the Calhoun Beach Club in Minneapolis. The couple met at a wine and cheese party for members of the Gilbert & Sullivan Players at Harvard, from which both graduated. She was a costume designer…
Julia Claire Winn and Thomas William Buckley are to be married Sept. 1. T. Ryan Schoen, a friend of the couple who was ordained through American Marriage Ministries in order to preside at this event, is to officiate at the Pearl, an events space in San Francisco. The couple met at Harvard, from which each…
Melanie Kramer Goldstein and Daniel Fischbein Berenson are to be married Sept. 1 at Villa Montalvo, an events space in Saratoga, Calif. Rabbi Jessica Oleon Kirschner, the executive director of the Hillel organization at Stanford, where the couple met at a Yom Kippur breakfast, is to officiate. The bride, 29, will take her husband’s name.…
Diana Fendig Willkie and Frank Watrous Hamilton IV are to be married Sept. 1. The Rev. Lucia P. Ballantine, an Episcopal priest and a cousin of the bride, is to officiate at the bride’s parents’ home in Aspen, Colo. The bride, 28, will take her husband’s name. She works at the Gagosian Gallery in New…
Katharine de Lancey Anawalt and Harrison Piecuch Gish are to be married Sept. 1 at Houston Hall, an events space in New York. David O’Grady, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life Minister for the event, is to officiate. The bride, 35, is a speech-language pathologist in private practice in Los Angeles…
Seanna Sharae Irvin-Anderson and Andrew William Granchelli were married Aug. 30 at Hope Glen Farm in Cottage Grove, Minn. Alexander Mazer, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. Mrs. Granchelli, 31, is a social worker at the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging. She is also a certified yoga…
Edna Joyce Ishayik and Seth Adam London are to be married Sept. 1 at the Castle Hill Inn in Newport, R.I. Rabbi Rachel M. Isaacs is to officiate. The bride, 39, performs research analysis at the Obama Foundation in New York. She graduated from Rutgers and received a master’s in journalism from N.Y.U. She is…
The local butcher, with his daughter standing by his side, was selling roasted whole chickens and slabs of fresh-cut beef to customers who only had to look into the store and nod to put in their orders, much as it has been done in this tiny hillside village in rural Portugal for decades now. Routines…
I met my best friend in grade school. We lived in New York at the same time and both got married in our 40s; we bought second homes in the same town. During the recession of 2008, she and her husband suffered greatly. They had to move to a (nice) home in a less expensive…