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…
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…
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…
Last summer a very handsome man kept proposing to me over and over again. “I really like you and I want to move this relationship along. So the question is: Will you marry me?” I’ve been crazy about this guy for nearly 30 years, but I just couldn’t bring myself to say yes. Each time…
So I missed the eclipse. It turned out that in early July something equally cosmic would be happening — likewise accompanied by crying, laughing, drinking and a last-minute, nail-biting weather watch — albeit something more local and hopefully far more lasting. I performed a wedding. In all, I’ve witnessed eight total solar eclipses, from 35…
Over the course of our 10-year marriage, my husband and I have had good times and bad, fun times with friends, and quiet times cocooning. None of those times, though, were spent with the 14,000 rpm “cyclonic” juicer a dear friend sent from our wedding registry. We are sorry. Our registry was full of perfect…
Kara Ann Kaufman and David Michael Fisher are to be married Sept. 1 at Jacob’s Pillow, a performance space in Becket, Mass. Rabbi Getzel Davis is to officiate. The bride, 29, was until last month a research associate at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass., from which she received a master’s degree in public…
Qian Julie Wang and Marc Ari Gottlieb are to be married Sept. 1. Rabbi Jeffrey J. Sirkman is to officiate at the Brooklyn Historical Society. Judge Morgan B. Christen, who serves on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and has her chambers in Anchorage, and for whom the bride was a law clerk in 2014-15,…
Emma Imbrie Chubb and Matthew Joseph Cannell Cummings are to be married Sept. 1 at Penn Forest Natural Burial Park in Verona, Pa. The couple are to participate in a self-uniting ceremony. Ms. Chubb, 35, is the inaugural Charlotte Feng Ford 1983 Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smith College Museum of Art. She graduated…
In 1986, when planning her own wedding with 175 guests at Wave Hill Gardens, a cultural center in the Bronx, Marcy Blum fell into what was then a largely nonexistent profession. “There was no in-house caterer,” she said, “so we came up with food stations and big balloons with signs that said charcuterie and fromage.…