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 the drawings and prints department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both in New York. She graduated from Yale and received a master’s degree, also in art history and archaeology, from N.Y.U.
She is the daughter of Zina Berman and Boris Berman of New Haven, Conn. The bride’s father is a classical concert pianist and a professor of piano at Yale’s School of Music in New Haven. Her mother is a research assistant in the laboratory of the molecular and cellular developmental biology department at Yale.
Dr. Cak, 39, is the associate director for the Environmental Sciences Initiative at the Advanced Science Research Center of City University of New York’s Graduate Center. His research focuses on deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and its effects on water and water quality. He graduated cum laude and received a master’s degree in biological sciences from Notre Dame, and received a doctoral degree in environmental science from Indiana University.
He is the son of Patricia M. Cak and Jerome A. Cak of Schererville, Ind. The groom’s mother retired as an administrative assistant in the guidance counseling office at Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Ill. His father is an office manager and an accountant at the Calumet Armature and Electric Company, a Riverdale, Ill., manufacturer of electric motors for industrial applications and transit systems.
The couple met in 2011 when mutual friends engineered a meeting between the two at a dinner to celebrate Mr. Cak’s birthday. They began dating shortly thereafter.
