Laurie Sandell and Jonathan Mostow are to be married Oct. 7 at Carondelet House in Los Angeles. Nathan Englander, who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, is to officiate. On Oct. 14 Rabbi Linda Portnoy Goldberg is to lead another ceremony at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in Manhattan.
Ms. Sandell, 47, has written features and cover stories for various national magazines including Glamour, where she was a staff senior writer until 2006. She is the author of two books, “The Impostor’s Daughter,” a graphic memoir she wrote and illustrated about her father (2009), and “Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family (2011). She graduated from the University of Wisconsin.
She is a daughter of Phyllis H. Sandell and Richard A. Sandell of Scarsdale, N.Y. Until the 1980s, her father was an economics professor at Ramapo College in New Jersey. Her mother retired from Colonial Elementary School in Pelham, N.Y., where she was a first-grade teacher.
The groom, 56, is a Los Angeles-based director and screenwriter whose directing credits include the feature films “Breakdown” (1997), “U-571” (2000), “Terminator 3” (2003) and “Surrogates” (2009). He graduated cum laude from Harvard.
He is a son of the late Evelyn Mostow and the late George D. Mostow, who lived in New Haven. The groom’s mother was a social worker there. His father was a professor of mathematics at Yale and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2013, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics for his contribution to geometry and Lie group theory. The groom is a stepson of the mathematician Sidnie Feit.
The groom’s previous marriage ended in divorce.
The couple met through JDate in 2014, after Ms. Sandell, a single mother by choice with a 9-month-old baby, decided to think about dating. When Mr. Mostow reached out to her, she said he had a “kind face” from his photos, and they had their first date at an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles, where they spoke about books, movies and their children (he has four from his previous marriage).
