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Jessica Muscio and Doug Davis took a less traditional route to marriage. First came attraction and friendship — and then came love, children and a house. In between were a few breakups. “I wasn’t ready to be vulnerable,” said Mr. Davis, an entertainment and music lawyer who is a son of the venerable music executive…
Instead of sending their 100 guests off with tea towels embossed with their smiling faces, or a flower pot with their inscribed wedding date, Brittni Switser and Raymond Ulger wanted to give something that might not end up in the bottom of a trash bin. So they made a donation to VOW, a nonprofit organization…
Michael Charles Foote and Bradley Stephen Sherburne were married Sept. 28. William J. Weiner, a friend of the couple and a Universal Life minister, officiated at Founders Landing, a park in Southold, N.Y. Mr. Foote (left), 31, is a development director at N.Y.U. and is also a lawyer in private practice in New York. He…
Jennifer Anne Cuminale and Jamieson Ford Russell were married Sept. 28 at the First Congregational Church of Greenwich in Greenwich, Conn. The Rev. Patrick Collins, a United Church of Christ minister, performed the ceremony. Mrs. Russell, 32, is an associate vice president and the manager of public relations and communications at the Christie’s auction house…
Theresa Ann Incampo and John Dillard Taylor are to be married Sept. 29 at Bar Lurcat, a restaurant in Minneapolis. Richard J. Bresnahan, a friend of the groom’s family who became a Universal Life minister for the event, is to officiate. The couple met at Trinity College in Hartford, from which both graduated, she summa…
George Santiago Jr. and Dr. David Karl Dovnarsky were married Sept. 27 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Joey Tai, a member of the New York city clerk’s staff, officiated. Dr. Santiago (left), 59, is a higher-education consultant, and was until 2017 the president of TCI College of Technology, which was in Manhattan. He graduated from…
Dana Elizabeth Hagar was married Sept. 28 to Rutherfurd Stuyvesant Pierrepont IV. William T. Nolan, a friend of the groom’s family who was ordained through Open Ministry, performed the ceremony at the Adirondack League Club in Old Forge, N.Y. Mrs. Pierrepont, 30, is the lead recruiter at Social Tables, a hospitality software company in Washington.…
Frances Sargent Cheever and Andrew Shichen Ong were married Sept. 28 at the Pittsburgh Golf Club in Pittsburgh. Nora Barry Fischer, a senior district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, officiated. Ms. Cheever, 36, works in Menlo Park, Calif., as a senior associate for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe,…
Miranda Tai Campbell and Athul Karinja Acharya were married Sept. 28 at the Barn PNW, an events space in Dayton, Ore. Judge Michael H. Simon, of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, officiated. Ms. Campbell, 28, is a palliative-care social worker at the St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, where…