Hedieh Fakhriyazdi and Michael Anthony Pasnello II were married May 17 at the Foundry, an events space in Long Island City, Queens. The Rev. Brian Van Fossen, a Roman Catholic priest, officiated. Earlier in the day, the couple took part in a Baha’i Faith marriage ceremony led by Trisha Irons, a longtime friend of the…
When it came to dating, Tanya Pushkine and Paul Luykx each had a strategy. For Ms. Pushkine, a philanthropy consultant, it was dating sites. She joined 11 of them. “Whatever I found out about, I’d put myself on,” she said. “I didn’t take them all seriously.” She was highly selective, though, about who she would…
The courting of Brides magazine had none of the meet-cutes and grand gestures often described in its glossy pages. Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue and The New Yorker, rather unceremoniously put the publication on the market last year as part of a cost-cutting campaign. The online brand Dotdash was among the early suitors, and…
Ludan Wu and Johnny Phaipanya, high school sweethearts from Chicago, were engaged for two years and planning a small wedding with family and close friends. But last December they made an impromptu decision to elope. “We ultimately realized that we wanted the day to be only about being with each other, and that meant having…
Audra Latrice Boltion and Michael Vincent Ortiz were married May 11 at St. Frances Cabrini Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn. The Rev. Guy Sbordone performed the ceremony. Ms. Boltion, 46, is the president of the Boltion Group Public Relations, which specializes in entertainment, brand management and book publishing; it is based in Brooklyn. She graduated…
Maria Elena Malvar and Benjamin Kramer-Eisenbud were married May 11 at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. Mark Cohen, a supervising judge in the court of claims in Suffolk County, N.Y., officiated. Ms. Malvar, 31, is the principal court attorney for Judge Gia L. Morris of the Queens Criminal Court. She graduated cum laude from…
Dr. Theresa Wen Wen Guo and Joon Suh were married May 11 at the Hyatt Regency Cleveland at the Arcade, a hotel in Cleveland. The Rev. Che Kim, a Presbyterian minister, officiated. Dr. Guo, 33, is completing her otolaryngology residency training at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In July, she is to continue her training…
Jana Shorr Elfenbein and Andrew Flynn Porter were married on May 7. Norman H. Pentelovitch, the groom’s brother-in-law and a Universal Life minister, officiated at Casa de Monte Vista, an events space in Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Porter, 30, works for Google in Austin, Tex. She is an associate lead managing a team of people…
Alexandra Jordan Schultz and Dr. Joshua Daniel Leibner were married May 11 at Congregation B’nai Israel in Boca Raton, Fla. Cantor Carrie Brawer Barry officiated. Ms. Schultz, 32, is an associate in the West Palm Beach, Fla., office of Cozen O’Connor, a Philadelphia law firm. She graduated magna cum laude from George Washington University and…
Marie Celeste Rehg and Kenneth Edward Notter III were married May 11. Chandler S. Howell, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated at Brookside Golf and Country Club in Columbus, Ohio. The bride and groom met at Harvard, from which each received a law degree. Mrs. Notter,…