Kelly Marie Roberts and James Crawford Downie were married Sept. 15 at St. Gabriel Catholic Church in Washington. The Rev. Kevin Kennedy, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony. The bride, 29, is a financial institution and policy analyst for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington. She graduated magna cum laude at the University of…
Mark McCarthy Sexton and William Kirk Wallace were married Sept. 15 at a private residence in San Francisco. Matthew Coles, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. The couple, both retired tax lawyers, met at the University of Chicago, from which each received a law degree. Each…
Lila Lancaster Seiler Dupree and Daniel Lee Adair were married Sept. 15 at Wasgat Cove, the summer home of the bride’s family in Northeast Harbor, Me. James Buchanan, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. The bride, 38, is an actor, producer and writer in Los Angeles.…
Joanna Braun Levine and Yigit Bora Bozkurt were married Sept. 15 at Wave Hill in the Bronx. Gregg M. Rubin, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for this event, officiated, with Gloria Steinem, the writer and activist and a friend of the bride’s family, leading a ceremony that incorporated Jewish…
In November 2007, Emily Kaczmarek and dozens of other high-school students from throughout the country met with several Supreme Court justices in Washington. Among them was Justice Anthony Kennedy. “Why is discrimination wrong?” Justice Kennedy asked the students. The students, all seasoned overachievers, struggled to devise impressive, long-winded responses. No, no, he said. Not complicated.…
Hurricane season coincides with wedding season, and up and down the Carolinas, brides and grooms who had ceremonies planned this week were frantically trying to reschedule as Hurricane Florence bore down on the coast. Deborah Sawyer, a veteran wedding planner and photographer in the Outer Banks, moved a beach wedding scheduled for Friday up to…
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Signature cocktails are nothing new at weddings, but gone are the days of brides and grooms picking their favorite classic tipples. Now, couples are opting for entire custom bar programs, which tells their love story through unique mixed drinks, molecular gastronomy, craft beers, mocktails and even new inventions, like the SipMi activations. “Fifteen years ago,…
Mallika Khandelwal and Aneal Kumar Tenjarla were married Sept. 4 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Angel L. Lopez, a staff member of the New York City Clerk’s Office, officiated. Ms. Khandelwal, 28, works in Manhattan as a founder of Choice Fertility, a start-up company that is working to build an egg-storage and implantation clinic. She…
Melissa Anne Loder and Bethany Anne Gostanian were married Sept. 3 at the Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, N.Y. Jeremy Carpenter, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated. Ms. Loder (left), 36, works in New York as a senior product manager in the news experience product…