Melanie Kramer Goldstein and Daniel Fischbein Berenson are to be married Sept. 1 at Villa Montalvo, an events space in Saratoga, Calif. Rabbi Jessica Oleon Kirschner, the executive director of the Hillel organization at Stanford, where the couple met at a Yom Kippur breakfast, is to officiate.
The bride, 29, will take her husband’s name. This month, she is to begin the second year of M.B.A. studies at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She graduated with distinction and also received a master’s degree in music, science and technology from Stanford. In 2012-13, she was a Fulbright scholar in San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy, affiliated with Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, and was also a principal cellist of the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana.
She is a daughter of Maxine Kramer Goldstein and Kenneth H. Goldstein of Clayton, Mo. The bride’s father is the logistics manager in the St. Louis office of MilliporeSigma, a provider of lab materials, technologies and services. Her mother is a public relations consultant in Clayton.
The groom, 28, is a third-year medical student at the Stanford School of Medicine. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale, and in June, he received a doctoral degree in biology from Stanford.
He is the son of Barbara F. Berenson and Richard W. Berenson of Newton, Mass. The groom’s mother retired as a senior lawyer at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in Boston, and is the author of “Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution” and “Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers.” His father is the chief executive of Thermalin, a biotechnology company in Cleveland.
