Sarah Katherine Franklin and Ariel Samuel Peikes are to be married June 23 at One Hanover Square at India House, an events space in Manhattan. Rabbi Georgette Kennebrae is to officiate.
Ms. Franklin, 33, is a professional violinist who regularly performs with the New York Pops, Distinguished Concerts International New York and Westchester Philharmonic. She also teaches privately and in various music schools in Manhattan, including Lucy Moses School at the Kaufman Music Center at Lincoln Center, Third Street Music School and Bank Street School for Children in Manhattan. She graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and received a Master of Music degree in violin performance from Manhattan School of Music.
She is a daughter of Karen S. Franklin and Dr. Gerald S. Franklin of Amherst, Mass. The bride’s father retired as a psychiatrist at Baystate Wing Hospital in Palmer, Mass. Her mother, a licensed clinical social worker, is the vice president of outpatient services at Servicenet in Northampton, Mass.
Mr. Peikes, 40, is an associate at Ostrolenk Faber, an intellectual property law practice in Manhattan. He graduated from Brown, and received a law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School.
He is the son of Rachel Peikes and Myron J. Peikes of Manhattan. The groom’s mother, who is retired, taught swimming and physical education to children at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn. His father retired as a history teacher at Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn, and then retired as an education sales representative at Scholastic, the educational publishing company in Manhattan.
The couple met in 2017 through the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel, and a week later bonded over music while having drinks at the Kimberly Hotel rooftop bar in Manhattan. In June 2018, Mr. Peikes called on three of Ms. Franklin’s friends — a cellist, violinist and violist — to play a mix of romantic classical music and pop songs by a fountain in Madison Square Park in Manhattan as he proposed.
