Parts of Shira Notrika’s wedding planning were fun. And parts definitely were not. Ms. Notrika, 30, who lives in London and is qualifying to be a lawyer there, was married Oct 27. She was happy with her wedding location, an underground ballroom that used to be an 18th century vault. She also thought it was…
Lindsey Maria Puliti and Gregory Alan Kay were married Nov. 30 in Newark. The Rev. Paul M. Donohue performed the ceremony at St. Lucy’s Roman Catholic Church. Mrs. Kay, 30, is a client manager at Superunion, a brand agency in New York. She graduated from the College of New Jersey and received an M.B.A. from…
Dr. Helen Xiao Yang and Maxwell Livingston Meyer were married Nov. 30 at the Marriott resort on Ko Naka Yai, an island off the coast of Phuket, Thailand. Mark Angus Meyer, the brother of the groom and who became a Universal Life minister for the event, led a ceremony. The following week, the couple is…
Courtney Jameson Bass and Daniel Benjamin Sherizen were married Nov. 29 at Boston City Hall. Alex Geourntas, a justice of the peace, officiated. The bride, 38, works in human resources at Google in San Francisco, where she advises executives on human resource matters. She graduated from Harvard, from which she also received an M.B.A. She…
Ellie Krupnick and Daniel Moshe Aronhime were married Nov. 27 at Congregation Beth El in Voorhees, N.J. Rabbi Aaron B. Krupnick, the bride’s father, officiated. Ms. Krupnick, 30, is the managing editor of Eater, the food and dining website of Vox Media in New York. She graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College. Her mother,…
Daniella Nadine Berman and Anthony Daniel Cak are to be married Dec. 1 in Brooklyn. Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie is to officiate at Brooklyn Winery. Ms. Berman, 34, is a doctoral candidate in art history and archaeology, specializing in 18th- and 19th-century European art, at N.Y.U.’s Institute of Fine Arts, and is also a fellow in…
Joseph Alexander Olshefski and Dennis Buonagura were married Nov. 26 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Zuleima Astol, a member of the New York City clerk’s office, officiated. Mr. Olshefski (left), 66, is a real estate broker for Douglas Elliman Real Estate in Manhattan. He is the former executive director of the Manhattan nightclub, Le Club…
Sharon Lee Bush and Robert Charles Murray were married Nov. 30 at Central Presbyterian Church in Manhattan. The Rev. Ed Sirya, a Presbyterian minister, officiated, with the televangelist Joel Osteen, of the Lakewood Church in Houston, taking part. The bride, 67, is the senior development officer at Cristo Rey Brooklyn, a Catholic high school. She…
The first time Virginia McEnerney met John Schreiber she was unaware of what she calls his “big man on campus” reputation in arts circles. In fact, she admitted to him something she now finds embarrassing: She thought NJPAC — short for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, where Mr. Schreiber is president and…
Most of the time, I have no idea what Mohammed is saying when I hear him on the phone with his family in Morocco. But I feel a sense of comfort in his elevated tone and unfamiliar words often laced with laughter and strung together to form an Arabic conversation that my daughter and I…