That summer each got to know the other’s family. Ms. Rosensweig’s parents, Linda and Daniel Rosensweig, live in Manhattan and keep a vacation house in Montauk, N.Y. Weekends there and in New Jersey with Mr. Pontrelli’s parents, Wendy Butler and Jay Pontrelli, who are divorced, added a layer of certainty about their compatibility. “The family dynamic was meant to work out,” Mr. Pontrelli said.
By the end of 2019, Mr. Pontrelli was planning to move into Ms. Rosensweig’s apartment in TriBeCa from a place he was sharing with friends in Columbus Circle. That move was postponed by the pandemic. But the couple started living together anyway.
In Montauk, they spent eight months with Ms. Rosensweig’s parents and her older sister, Rachel Rosensweig, who had also holed up there while the world was on its heels with her boyfriend, Adam Roberts, now her husband. “Talk about getting to know your in-laws,” Mr. Pontrelli said. In 2021, they both returned to the apartment in TriBeCa, where they still live.
On May 20, 2023, Mr. Pontrelli lured Ms. Rosensweig to her parents’ apartment, where despite a spring rainstorm, he proposed on the rooftop. “I was on one knee in a puddle,” he said.
The couple were married Sept. 14 by Christopher Ashton Kutcher, the actor known as Ashton Kutcher, who has long been a family friend of the Rosensweigs. He obtained a one-day officiant license from the Town of East Hampton to perform the wedding ceremony at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, N.Y., before 228 guests.
In a nod to the family’s obsession with Bruce Springsteen, a quartet of musicians played an acoustic version of “Jungleland” as they walked toward Mr. Pontrelli.
