Lindsay Beth Lieberman and Isaac Benjamin Kardon are to be married Sept. 23 in their backyard in Newport, R.I. Rabbi Marc Mandel is to officiate.
The bride, 33, works remotely in Newport as a senior associate for C. A. Goldberg, a Brooklyn law firm that represents victims of cyber sexual abuse, sexual assault and extortion. She is also an adjunct professor at Salve Regina University in Newport. Ms. Lieberman graduated from Rutgers, and received a law degree cum laude from Brooklyn Law School.
She is a daughter of Marjorie N. Lieberman and Bernard Lieberman of Monroe, N.J. The bride’s father, who is retired, worked in East Orange, N.J., as the chief of pharmacy of the East Orange and Lyons campuses of the VA New Jersey Health Care System. Her mother retired as a fifth-grade teacher from Public School 42 in Eltingville, Staten Island.
The groom, 35, is an assistant professor at the United States Naval War College in Newport, where he teaches and researches Chinese politics and foreign policy as a core member of the China Maritime Studies Institute. He graduated from Dartmouth, and earned a master’s degree in modern Chinese studies from Oxford, as well as a Ph.D. in government from Cornell.
He is a son of Nancy M. Kardon and James C. Kardon of Scarsdale, N.Y. The groom’s mother works as a certified Iyengar yoga teacher in Scarsdale and Greenwich, Conn. She also teaches yoga at Gilda’s Club, a community organization for cancer survivors, and at the Mental Health Association of Westchester, both in White Plains. His father is a partner in the Manhattan law firm Hahn & Hessen, where he practices corporate and securities law. He is also the director of the Riverside Opera Ensemble in Manhattan.
The couple met through the Bumble dating app at the end of 2016, and had a first date in February at the Frick Museum in Manhattan, followed by dinner, and a stop at Ms. Lieberman’s friend’s apartment to pick up Harry, her Chihuahua-miniature pinscher rescue dog from Puerto Rico. In August, Dr. Kardon adopted Ralph, a hound-lab mix rescue from a Newport shelter. The couple called upon both Harry and Ralph to serve as their ring bearers.
