Rose Dichter Schapiro and Thomas John Lewek were married Sept. 29 at the bride’s parents’ house in Philadelphia. They were wed under Pennsylvania’s self-uniting marriage statute; two friends, Alexander Preiss and Susannah Fishman, served as official witnesses. The bride, who is 31 and works in New York, is a program officer at the Tiger Foundation,…
Dr. Carolyn Dacey Seib and Charles Eugene Le Père were married Sept. 29 at the Barn at Green Valley, an events space in Fairfield, Calif. The Rev. Ariosto Coelho, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony. Dr. Seib, 36, is a general and endocrine surgeon at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. She…
Emily Helen Sparer and Lucas Daniel Fine were married Sept. 29 at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, N.Y. Rabbi Jonathan Kligler officiated. Dr. Sparer-Fine, 32, is a research associate at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health. She graduated from Barnard College and received both a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in…
Todd Roger Mohrmann and Tim Johnson were married Sept. 29, at the Skylark, a cocktail lounge and events space in New York. Alan Berger, an officiant of the American Ethical Union, officiated. Mr. Mohrmann (left), 49, is the president of Dynamic Training, a consultancy that delivers staff training to health care and early childhood education…
Amanda Paige Sidman and Maxwell Michael Mancuso were married Sept. 29 at the Beach Plum Inn in Chilmark, Mass., on Martha’s Vineyard. Peter Rossi, a cousin of the groom who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated. The bride, 32, is the supervising entertainment producer at NBC News in New York, where she…
Callie Press Lawrence and Brendan Thomas Leanos were married Sept. 29 at a private loft space on Bleecker Street and Seventh Avenue in New York. William Madden, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. The bride, 31, is the chief operating officer of KARA, a handbag company…
Tiffany Lynn Jow and Wade James Michael were married Sept. 29 at Stumptown Coffee Roasters in Brooklyn. Ishraque H. Nazmi, a Universal Life minister and a friend of the couple, officiated. The bride, 34, is a design editor at Surface Media, an art and design magazine published in New York. She graduated from the University…
Elaine Hoffman and Neil Ullman met three years ago as students at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J. Ms. Hoffman, who lived in Berkeley Heights, N.J., thought Mr. Ullman, who resided in nearby Florham Park, might be the kind of classmate who could potentially become a “friend to spend some time with.” “He was very…
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. Who Laura Berger Slatkin, 59, and Harry Slatkin, 58. Occupations She is the founder of Nest Fragrances; he is the…
It was January 2017 when Denthew Learey asked his parents to meet for dinner at Hacienda Restaurant in Highland Falls, N.Y. He suspected his parents knew what he wanted to discuss. At 20 years old, he was “at that age,” as he put it, and he didn’t typically have serious conversations with them, but this…