Dr. Anna Vladimirovna Balabanova and Cornelius Ryan Shannahan were married Dec. 8 at the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, Ill. The Rev. Kristie Finley, a Presbyterian minister, performed the ceremony. The bride, 28, and groom, 29, met at Northwestern, from which they graduated, and where she also received a medical degree, and he an…
Nora Elizabeth Kelly and Douglas William Lee were married Dec. 8 at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. Jeffrey Sandy, the bride’s uncle who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. The couple met in 2010 at the University of Delaware, from which they graduated. Ms. Kelly, 29, is a…
Kylie Lynn Thoman and Reid William Ellison were married Dec. 8 at the Lyford Cay Club in Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas. The Venerable Keith Cartwright, the archdeacon of the Anglican Diocese of Southern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, officiated. Mrs. Ellison, 27, is a manager of product development on the enterprise digital and…
Samantha Brianne Webb and Brendan Patrick McCarthy were married Dec. 7 at the Mansion in Mountain Lakes, N.J. The Rev. Ross Lang, a Presbyterian minister, officiated, with Msgr. John J. Carroll taking part in a ceremony that incorporated both Presbyterian and Catholic wedding traditions. The bride, 35, works in the investor relations department at Bain…
A bride’s attire often accounts for a significant chunk of the wedding budget. Saying yes to a dress can set you back, on average, $400 to $1,700, according to the most recent national survey by the WeddingWire, which operates online marketplaces for the industry. In big cities like New York, a dress can easily exceed…
Seeing a limousine inch its way down a one-way street during rush hour always raises more questions than answers. Who’s behind those tinted windows? Why are they paying such a premium to travel in a glorified taxi? And, wait, how did the driver just pull off that turn? The photographer Kathy Shorr found the answers…
In Unhitched, couples tell the stories of their relationships, from romance to vows to divorce to life afterward. An early marriage led to a quick divorce and it took decades, and several more marriages, for this Texas couple to find their way back to each other. The difficult childhoods and lack of relationship skills thwarted…
Leola Westbrook and Dr. John Preston Lawrence are to be married Dec. 2 in Santa Monica, Calif. The Rev. Barbara Laughray, a minister of the Church of Religious Science, is to officiate at the Shutters on the Beach Hotel. The bride, 49, is an executive producer and showrunner for various TV shows and networks. She…
Kalisha Dessources and Shomari Coleman Figures are to be married Dec. 2 at Park Chateau Estate and Gardens in East Brunswick, N.J. The Rev. Alejandro Baldwin, who was ordained through Antioch International Ministries, is to officiate, with his wife, the Rev. Ashley Lewis Baldwin, who was ordained through Walking in Deliverance Ministries, to take part.…
Dr. Hillary Ann Johnston-Cox and Dr. Robert Shoer Copeland-Halperin were married Dec. 1 at the New York Athletic Club in New York. Edward C. Wallace, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. The couple met in 2014 during their residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital…