Dr. Lucy Werner Gordon and John Milton Rosenblatt were married Sept. 8 at the Owenego Beach & Tennis Club in Branford, Conn. Lisa Antonecchia, a Connecticut justice of the peace, officiated, incorporating Jewish traditions.
Dr. Gordon, 42, is a primary care doctor at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens and an associate program director of its internal medicine residency program. She is also an assistant professor of medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Manhattan. She graduated from Yale, and received a medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
She is a daughter of Rita W. Gordon of Branford, Conn., and the late Burton K. Gordon. The bride’s mother is a securities and commercial lawyer in private practice in Branford and Manhattan. The bride’s father was a securities lawyer in private practice in Manhattan.
The groom, 39, is a paralegal at Havkins, Rosenfeld, Ritzert & Varriale in Manhattan. He is also a writer whose short story, “The Assignment,” appeared in the Southhampton Review in 2015. He graduated from Brown, and received an M.F.A. in creative writing from Stony Brook.
He is a son of Virginia Rosenblatt and Roger Rosenblatt of Quogue, N.Y. The groom’s mother is a poet whose work has appeared in the Southhampton Review, as well as in “Making Toast” (Ecco, 2010), a memoir written by his father, a memoirist, essayist and novelist. His father, the author of 18 books, including the recent novel “Thomas Murphy” (Ecco, 2016), is also a professor of English and writing at Stony Brook. He was a longtime essayist for Time magazine and the PBS “NewsHour.”
The couple met in September 2015 through Tinder, and a couple of weeks later had their first date at the Immigrant wine and tap room in Manhattan’s East Village.
