Amanda Helena Freyre and Michael John Martinez were married Feb. 16 at the St. Patrick Catholic Church in Miami Beach. The Rev. Roberto M. Cid, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony. The couple met at the University of Pennsylvania, from which the bride received a law degree and the groom received an M.B.A. and…
Alisa Ann Friscia and Kevin Christopher Guidette are to be married Feb. 17 at Stella Maris Roman Catholic Church in San Juan, P.R. The Rev. Jose Quintero, a Roman Catholic priest, is to perform the ceremony. The bride, 35, is a new business sales executive at IBISWorld, a research firm to the financial industry in…
Jennifer Sara Citak and Gabriel Joseph Gershowitz are to be married Feb. 17 at Montammy Golf Club in Alpine, N.J. Rabbi Shaul Robinson is to officiate. The bride and groom graduated from George Washington University, each summa cum laude. He also received a master’s degree in public policy summa cum laude from the school. The…
Genevieve Anne Bentz and Samuel Jordan Lewis are to be married Feb. 17 at Bucks Fishing & Camping, a restaurant in Washington. Vincent Barbuto, a friend of the couple who was granted permission by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to officiate, is to lead the ceremony. The bride, who is 28 and…
When Chuh A first laid eyes on Rex Ny nearly two decades ago, he just knew it was love at first sight. He was a 14-year-old who had arrived in the United States just a year earlier, transplanted from Kontum, Vietnam, to Greensboro, N.C. Ms. Ny, who was 12, was a fellow immigrant from Kontum;…
Henry Stephen Orzynski and Judson Wellford Trapnell were married Feb. 9 at the Avalon Hotel and Bungalows in Palm Springs, Calif. Patricia A. Hall, who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated. Mr. Orzynski (left), 29, is pursuing an M.B.A. at Stanford. Until 2017, he was an associate in the private banking division…
Jennifer Rose Lefebvre and John Everett Thornton Jr. were married Feb. 9 at the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Judge Donald L. Graham of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, officiated. The couple met in 2011 at the University of Miami, from which each received a…
David Kirp and Niko Laine were married Feb. 2 at their San Francisco home. Steven Sugarman, a Universal Life minister and friend of the couple, officiated. Mr. Kirp (right), 74, is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a freelance writer and an author of 15 books, including…
It’s hard to blame Matthew Wiley for suspecting Valentina Marie Lomborg was telling whoppers when he met her in 2017 at a Starbucks in Clearwater, Fla. Not only did she claim to be a former Los Angeles fashion model who socialized with celebrities, she also said she was psychic. His credulity didn’t reach its limits,…
Attention, couples everywhere: We’ve got some relationship advice from a New York couple who will share a familiar table in Midtown Manhattan tonight, celebrating their 20th anniversary. Beyoncé and Jay-Z? Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick? Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld? Nope. Nope. Nope. Mike Breen and Walt Frazier (known as Clyde)? Yep and yep. However,…