In a Jewish marriage, the modern-day ketubah, a prenuptial agreement, is standard and unorthodox. The traditional ketubah outlined the responsibilities within a couple’s union. It was typically written in Aramaic, signed by two witnesses and geared toward Jewish heterosexual couples. But the document has evolved, just like the idea of marriage. “The ketubah in its…
The couple maintains they were influencing out of pure love, not for money. Some onlookers are less convinced, thanks to a well-planned, detailed marketing deck that was disseminated in advance of the “surprise” marriage proposal Gabriel Grossman, a vice president at Morgan Stanley in New York, staged this week for his soon-to-be wife Marissa Fuchs,…
While growing up, Julia Mathis imagined having a fancy wedding with a huge crowd, a string of bridesmaids and a towering cake. Her mother had married her father at the age of 21 and that partnership held solid for 40 years. Marriage for Ms. Mathis promised stability, and she thought that she would also fall…
If you ask JP Smith what he remembers most about his 2014 honeymoon in Aruba, he’ll say the sunsets, but not because of their beauty. “It was like a photo shoot for some magazine that would never exist,” said Mr. Smith, 38, a real estate agent in New York, and he didn’t mean that in…
In Unhitched, couples tell the stories of their relationships, from romance to vows to divorce to life afterward. Peter Genuardi and Olga Heifets met in 2002 in graduate school at Georgetown, where they both received a degree in communications, culture and technology. Their values seemed well matched at the time, and a mutual admiration led…
Tarini Parti and Charles Ryan Barber were married June 15 at the Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley, a hotel in Raleigh, N.C. Lalitha Achutuni, a Hindu priest, officiated. The bride and groom graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where they met while working on the school newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel. Ms.…
Caroline Foley Nype and Adam Harris Parker were married June 15 at the Metropolitan Club in New York. Peter Webster, the bride’s stepfather who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. Mrs. Parker, 30, is a director of e-commerce for Saks Fifth Avenue Off 5th. She graduated from Lehigh. She is the daughter…
Maya Dimant Lentz and Michael Jacob Cohen are to be married June 16 at the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, Conn. Rabbi Rami Schwartzer is to officiate. The bride, 33, is a visiting associate professor of clinical law and a Friedman Fellow at the Prisoner & Reentry Clinic at George Washington University…
Meredith Nicole Clark and Abraham David Millman were married June 15 at Maison May, a restaurant and events space in Brooklyn. Jordan R. L. Bullard, the bride’s brother-in-law and an affiliate of American Marriage Ministries, officiated. The bride, 34, is a program manager for technical services in the London office of Google. She graduated with…
Janna Beth Levin and Matthew Edward Spaiser are to be married June 16 at the Briarcliff Manor in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. Rabbi Fishel Zaklos is to officiate. The bride, 34, is a senior staff lawyer at Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A in Williamsburg, where she represents low-income families and works to prevent evictions in housing…