Emily Kathleen Ely and Rubin Jesse Miller were married April 13 at Early Mountain Vineyards in Madison, Va. Stephanie McNerney, a friend of the couple who was sworn in by a judge as a one-time officiant in a nonreligious ceremony in the state of Virginia, officiated. Ms. Ely, 35, is an assistant professor of reading…
Samantha Flick Braun and Benjamin William Colombo were married April 13 at the Foundry, an events space in Long Island City, Queens. Spencer F. Braun, the bride’s brother who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated. The bride, 29, is the business development manager for Uber’s safety initiatives in San Francisco, and is…
Marissa Valerie Nicolo and Michael Anthony Calogero were married April 13 at the India House, an events space in Manhattan. Deborah A. Kaplan, an administrative justice of the Supreme Court, New York County, civil branch, officiated. Mrs. Calogero, 33, is a sales force product manager at Burford Capital, a litigation finance firm in Manhattan. She…
Martha Randolph Simms and Eric Benjamin Lorber were married April 13 in Atlanta. The Rev. Timothy H. Black, an Episcopal priest, officiated at Cator Woolford Gardens, with Joyce Bihary, a retired chief judge of the federal bankruptcy court in Atlanta, taking part. Ms. Simms, 32, is the special adviser on policy relating to detentions, watchlisting,…
Samantha Linn Price Schilit and Jeremy Phillip Rosenweig are to be married April 14 at Water’s Edge Resort and Spa in Westbrook, Conn. Rabbi Stuart Berman, an uncle of the bride, is to officiate, with Rabbi Nathaniel Berman, a cousin of the bride, taking part. On April 13, Robert Brande, a friend of the groom,…
Meera Hemant Patel and Trevor Logan Burbank were married April 12 at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in Nashville. Bob Mendes, an at-large member of Nashville’s Metro Council, officiated. The bride, 31, is an illustrator and writer based in Nashville. She is the author of “My Friend Fear: Finding Magic in the Unknown” (Penguin Random…
Christina Lynn Boser and Michael James Toblar Choate were married April 13 on Santa Cruz Island, Calif. Brittany Bauhaus, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister, officiated. Ms. Boser, 37, is an island ecologist for the Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental organization based in Arlington, Va. She graduated from the University…
Months before their wedding at the Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia, Rachel Silver and Garrett Barten of Miami Beach had planned out exactly how their ring bearer would be styled. “We had decided early on that my husband was going to wear a white dinner jacket to the wedding, and I thought it would be really…
Shayla Nastasi had just reached the end of a two-and-a-half-year relationship when she joined the dating website OkCupid in 2015. “I went online basically for compliments,” said Ms. Nastasi, 31. “When you first start, all of a sudden you get a lot of people messaging you nice things. It’s a good way to kind of…
Because marriage is an ever-evolving experience, we constantly shift, change and, in some cases, start over. In It’s No Secret, couples share thoughts about commitment and tell us what they have learned along the way, revealing their secret to making it work. Who Jennifer Miller, 50 and Bailey Pryor, 51. Occupation Ms. Miller is a…