Mary Koutrakos and Ricardo Joseph Abbott are to be married Feb. 2 at the NoMad Hotel in New York. Janet Patton, a Universal Life minister, is to officiate. Ms. Koutrakos, 50, will be taking her husband’s name. She is the controller at ClearData, a software company in Austin, Texas, and also a certified public accountant.…
Karen Michele Rosenthal and Eric Andrew Vorschirm were married Feb. 1 at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. Rabbi Jerome Blum officiated. The bride, 43, is a teacher at the International Preschools in Manhattan. She graduated from Syracuse and received a master’s degree in education from Fordham. She is a daughter of Sue Rosenthal and Eric…
Chelsea Virginia Sullivan and John Colin Leddy were married Feb. 1 at the Loeb Boathouse in Central Park. Olivia Whitney, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. The couple met in Hartford, Conn., at Trinity College, from which they graduated. Mrs. Leddy, 28, is a fourth-grade teacher…
Andrew Jason Friedman and Michael Alan Zuckerman were married Feb. 1 at the Dalcy, an events space in the Fulton Market district in Chicago. Dr. Nicholas Konowitz, who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated, with Andrey Spektor participating in a ceremony with Jewish traditions. Mr. Friedman (left), 28, will take the surname…
Monique Proctor became known as DJ Smiles Davis 11 years ago. “My career as a D.J. happened organically,” said Ms. Davis, 35, who grew up in Grand Rapids, Mich., in the 1980s and was introduced to music at her grandparents’ record store there. In her early 20s, she began working at Amoeba Music, where she…
Just hours after Lauren Schneider and Lawrence Moss were married on Jan. 28 at Sandals South Coast, a resort in Whitehouse, Jamaica, they received phone calls from many friends and family who couldn’t attend. They weren’t congratulatory calls. They were calls of concern. A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck at 2:10 p.m. in the Caribbean Sea…
When Bill Walczak called Meg Campbell to ask her for a date in 2016, he hung up happy. The yes he had received wasn’t particularly enthusiastic, but her hesitant acceptance gave him a lift anyway. Spending time with Ms. Campbell, he knew, would be good for him. His wife had told him so. Mr. Walczak,…
Most photographers have a shot list — a must-capture catalog of photographs that each couple insists they have to remember their wedding day. And yet the unexpected moments are really what everyone hopes for. “You always look for these rare moments. They don’t always happen, but when they do, it’s magic.” — Andy Marcus, 70,…
Perfectly posed wedding photos often make for a beautifully curated wedding album, but it’s the unscripted, unexpected moments that are usually the most cherished. Do you have a candid photo that captures a memorable moment from your wedding day? Did your wedding photographer capture a heart-tugging moment? If so, we want to hear from you.…
In Unhitched, couples tell the stories of their relationships, from romance to vows to divorce to life afterward. Eli Falk and Rina Shapiro met online in 2007 through a Jewish dating website. For both, a Jewish partner was paramount. She was raised in a Modern Orthodox family; he became Orthodox in his teens after a…