Erica Rachel Green and David Gurian-Peck were married Nov. 9 at the Green Building, an events space in Brooklyn. Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson officiated. Ms. Green, 34, is the major gifts officer focused on fund-raising for the League of American Orchestras in Manhattan. She graduated cum laude from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. She is…
Christopher Patrick Behan and Robert Price Hall III were married Nov. 9 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington. The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, a retired Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, performed the ceremony. Mr. Behan (left), 58, is a senior associate at the Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, a nonprofit organization focused…
Melissa Sarah Brenner and Maxwell James Roosevelt were married Nov. 9 at the Palm House at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Rabbi Elliot Strom officiated. Mrs. Roosevelt, who is 30 and works in Manhattan, is in-house counsel for the investment bank of Barclays. She graduated from the University of Maryland, and received a law degree magna…
Patricia Ann O’Brien and William Hodding Carter III were married Nov. 9 at the Walter Lippmann House in Cambridge, Mass. Ellen Goodman, a friend of the couple and a minister with Life Ministry, officiated. The bride, 83, was a reporter in the Washington bureau of Knight Ridder and a reporter for The Chicago Sun-Times before…
Jemele J. Hill and Ian J. Wallace are to be married Nov. 10 at the Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, Calif. The Rev. Rodney S. Patterson, a Baptist minister, is to officiate. The bride, 43, is a journalist and podcaster. She is a staff writer at the Atlantic. From 2006 to 2018, she worked…
Dr. Seema Banno Qayum and Dr. Sanjin Tunovic were married Nov. 9 at the Civic Theater in New Orleans. Dr. Jonathan Orner, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated. The couple met at Tulane, from which each received a medical degree, and from which she also graduated…
Samantha Wadell, a 33-year-old lawyer with Weiss Wexler & Wornow, had a looming task ahead of her Thursday night after finishing her last case of the day in a Brooklyn court. She had only two hours to spend nearly $9,000 at Barneys New York. But this wasn’t a Carrie Bradshaw-style dream come true. Rather, Ms.…
On the June day in 1956 when a young woman named Annette Adkins left Woodbridge, Va., to spend the summer with relatives in Kentucky, Bob Harvey lost the love of his life. Mr. Harvey, who had slow danced with her weeks earlier at the junior prom, remembers seeing her get in a 1955 tan Pontiac,…
Patty Shales was asleep in her home in the Brentwood hills of Los Angeles when her neighbor called to say a fire was burning near the Getty Center art museum. Ms. Shales, 67, looked out her window and could see flames on the Sepulveda Pass, but not close enough for her to worry about evacuating…
The lingering impacts of the Great Recession have contributed to a boom in the number of unmarried couples who live together, but a new survey from the Pew Research Center has found that those couples tend to be less happy than their married counterparts. The survey results, published online Wednesday, show high public support for…