This Week's Wedding Announcements
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After a weeklong flurry of back-and-forth texts, the couple, introduced by mutual friends, went on a first date in May 2017. The date began with Scott James finding Jessica Pantzer waiting for him outside of her Los Angeles apartment.
Mr. James got out of his car, walked up to Ms. Pantzer and gave her “a sincere hug-hello,” as she put it.
Their first get-together, on a Saturday, lasted 15 hours, as they went on a Hollywood guided tour, then to lunch, then on a hiking excursion, then out for drinks, and finally to an arcade.
The marathon date was sealed with a first kiss.
“It was electric,” Ms. Pantzer said. “For the first time in my life, I didn’t have one negative thing to say about my date.”
When Mr. James asked when Ms. Pantzer could see him again, she replied, “How about Tuesday or Wednesday?”
He said, “How about both?”
The next five months became a dizzying stretch during which the couple moved in together and met each other’s families. Mr. James also asked Ms. Pantzer’s father for his daughter’s hand in marriage.
“From the start, he was so much fun to be with,” Ms. Pantzer said. “He was witty and clever, very intelligent, trustworthy and unbelievably thoughtful.”
“But above all,” she added, “he let me be me.”
Denise Galen Ozpinar and Dr. Ryan Quin Notti were married Oct. 25 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Waldo Ramirez, a staff member of the City Clerk’s Office, officiated.
The bride, who is 31 and based in Manhattan, is a buyer in men’s sportswear for Macy’s department stores. She graduated cum laude from Tufts in Medford, Mass.
She is the daughter of Evelyn Ozpinar and Ahmet C. Ozpinar of Speonk, N.Y. The bride’s father retired as the owner of the Eastport Gas Station in Eastport, N.Y.
The groom, 32, is a second-year internal medicine resident at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Connecticut, received a medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College and a Ph.D. in structural microbiology from Rockefeller University.
He is a son of Donna Quinlivan Notti and Paul Notti of Cheshire, Conn. The groom’s mother is a teacher and the director of the Cheshire Public Schools’ Birth-to-Three special education program. She works with children with special needs and their families to support their development. His father is the founder and owner of Equipment Sales-North, a company in Cheshire that sells printed circuit board manufacturing equipment.
The couple met on Match.com in 2014.
Joanna Corn, Ryan Waffle
Joanna Louise Corn and Ryan Anthony Waffle were married Oct. 27 at the Inn at Longshore in Westport, Conn. Margaret E. Vidler, a cousin of the bride who is a Universal Life minister, officiated.
The couple met as college students at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, from which both graduated, she magna cum laude from William Smith and he cum laude from Hobart. They began dating a few months after they graduated, in fall 2011.
Mrs. Waffle, 29, is a brand strategy director at Hearts & Science, an advertising agency in New York of the Omnicom Group.
She is a daughter of Amy C. Corn and Richard F. Corn of New Canaan, Conn. The bride’s father is a high school math tutor and is the author of “Ultimate Guide to the Math ACT” (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2012). Her mother retired as the vice president, secretary and chief governance officer at Pitney Bowes, the maker of postage meters and other technology in Stamford, Conn.
Mr. Waffle, also 29, is a strategic research associate in New York for TripAdvisor, a company that helps consumers devise travel plans.
He is a son of Carolyn H. Waffle of Binghamton, N.Y., and Richard J. Waffle of New Port Richey, Fla. The groom’s mother is the owner of a travel agency in Binghamton that bears her name. His father retired as a major in the New York State Park Police, and was the commanding officer in the Finger Lakes region, with an office in Trumansburg.
Sarah Cramer, Amy Leong
Sarah Elizabeth Cramer and Amy Elizabeth Leong were married Oct. 27 at Plantation Gardens Restaurant in Koloa, Kauai, Hawaii. Tommy Tokioka, a spiritual minister licensed by the state of Hawaii, officiated.
Ms. Cramer (left), 31, works remotely from Oakland, Calif., as a leadership gifts officer for the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian aid organization based in New York. She graduated from Harvard and received an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of the board of directors of Justice At Last, a nonprofit law firm in San Carlos, Calif., that provides services throughout San Francisco.
Ms. Cramer is a daughter of Debra A. Cramer-Bourn of Granville, N.Y., and James R. Cramer of Savannah, Ga. Her father is a salesman for the Vermont Slate Company in Savannah. Her mother is a teacher’s assistant at the Granville Junior/Senior High School.
Ms. Leong, 31, is a finance manager at Banana Republic, where she oversees labor management for North American stores, in San Francisco. She graduated from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.
She is a daughter of Debra S. Leong and Les C. Leong of Mountain View, Calif. Her mother is an administrative assistant for the Office of Accessible Education at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. Her father is a manager in the Santa Clara, Calif., office of Oracle, the computer-software company.
The couple met in San Francisco in 2013. They had their first date at Blackbird Bar in San Francisco.
Lira Davies, Timothy Gallagher
Lira Behrens Davies and Timothy Aloysius Gallagher were married Oct. 27. The Rev. Rocco C. Danzi Jr. performed the ceremony at St. Ann Roman Catholic Church in Hoboken, N.J.
Mrs. Gallagher, 53, is an assistant section chief in Washington for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She graduated from the University of North Carolina.
She is the daughter of Linda A. Behrens and Carl E. Behrens of Alexandria, Va. The bride’s father retired as an energy-policy research specialist for the Congressional Research Service, which is part of the Library of Congress and in Washington.
Mr. Gallagher, 50, is a managing director for business intelligence and investigations at Kroll, the security company; he also leads the company’s operations in the New York area. Until March, he also worked for the F.B.I., and was the special agent in charge of the Newark field office, where he oversaw operations throughout New Jersey. He graduated from St. Peter’s University in Jersey City.
He is a son of Maureen M. Gallagher of the Oakwood, Staten Island, and the late Bernard P. Gallagher. The groom’s mother retired as the office manager in New Dorp, Staten Island, at Portamedic, a company that conducts physical examinations for insurance purposes. His father retired as a department chief, conducting corporate investigations, in the Morristown, N.J., office of AT&T.
The bride’s previous marriage ended in divorce and was annulled, as was the groom’s.
The couple met at a private swimming pool in Silver Spring, Md., to which both belonged. “I recognized him from work and introduced myself to him,” said Ms. Davies, and in 2011, a romance developed.
Saoni Sen and Sharone Golan Tobias are to be married Oct. 28 in Washington. Rabbi Dr. Shira Lander is to officiate at the Carnegie Institution for Science, with Jay D. Sen, a friend of the couple, leading the couple through traditional Hindu wedding customs.
Ms. Sen (left), 30, is a corporate development manager at Enviva, a company in Bethesda, Md., that makes wood pellets for use in the production of electricity. She graduated from N.Y.U. and received an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is a daughter of Balaka Sen and Abhijit K. Sen of Old Bridge, N.J. Ms. Sen’s father is a senior manager for information technology in Franklin Lakes, N.J., for Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefits manager. Her mother is an associate director for clinical database services in Rahway, N.J., for Merck & Company, the pharmaceutical concern.
Ms. Tobias, 29, is a senior strategy analyst in the defense, space and security business unit, in Arlington, Va., of the Boeing Company. She graduated from Barnard College and received a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia.
She is a daughter of Noga Golan Tobias and Steven M. Tobias of Houston. Ms. Tobias’s father is a consulting geophysicist in Houston on oil and gas exploration. Her mother is a family mediator in private practice in Houston.
The couple met in 2011, in New York, on a blind date that was engineered by a mutual friend.
Molly Brown, Jason Scott
Molly Feingold Brown and Jason Charles Scott were married Oct. 27 at 360 East Montauk Downs, an events space in Montauk, N.Y. Carver Scott Lee, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated.
The bride, 26, is a teacher at the Jewish Community Project Early Childhood Center in New York. She graduated from the State University of New York at Purchase, and received a master’s of education degree in early childhood and childhood education at Bank Street College of Education.
She is the daughter of Deborah Feingold of New York and Raymond M. Brown of East Hampton, N.Y. The bride’s father retired as a lieutenant in the New York Fire Department. He was stationed at Ladder Company 113 in Brooklyn, and F.D.N.Y. Rescue Company 1 in Manhattan, and was among the emergency medical workers during the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center. Her mother is a New York-based freelance photographer who specializes in celebrity portraits.
The groom, 27, is a software engineer at IPsoft, an artificial intelligence company in New York. He graduated from the New York Institute of Technology.
He is a of Joan Scott and Lawrence Scott of Manhasset, N.Y. The groom’s mother works in sales and logistics for MHW, an importer and distributor of wines and liquors, based in Manhasset. His father is a certified public accountant in private practice, also in Manhasset.
The couple met at Manhasset High School in 2009.
David Sakowitz, Eddie Torres
David Allen Sakowitz and Eddie Nelson Torres Jr. were married Oct. 27 at Owls Hoot Barn, an events space in West Coxsackie, N.Y. Rabbi Joel M. Mosbacher officiated.
Mr. Sakowitz (left), 48, is a partner in Winston & Strawn, a law firm in Manhattan. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton and received a law degree from Harvard.
He is the son of the late Karen A. Sakowitz and the late Julius J. Sakowitz, who lived in Brooklyn. Mr. Sakowitz’s mother was a special-education teacher at Public School 36 in Brooklyn. His father was a court clerk at the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Mr. Torres, 32, who is changing his surname to Sakowitz, is a patient services manager at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. He is also pursuing a master’s degree in nutrition science at Brooklyn College, from which he graduated.
He is a son of Aida Rodríguez García of Orlando, Fla., and Mr. Torres Sr. of the Bronx. Mr. Torres’s mother works in Orlando as a claims review examiner for Asurion, a mobile technology insurance company. His father, who is retired, was a maintenance worker based in the Bronx for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
The couple met in 2011 at an Upper East Side bar in Manhattan, and last fall Mr. Sakowitz proposed at the summit of Mount Scott in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma.
Julie Silverbrook, Adam Footer
Julie Michelle Silverbrook and Dr. Adam Scott Footer were married Oct. 27 at Hotel Monaco in Washington. Rabbi Arnold Saltzman officiated.
The bride, 31, is the executive director of the Constitutional Sources Project, a nonprofit organization in Washington that provides historical sources related to the creation, ratification and amendment of the Constitution.
She graduated summa cum laude from George Washington University, where she received the Distinguished Scholar Award, the highest award given to a student graduating from the arts and sciences college. She also received a law degree from William & Mary.
She is a daughter of Dr. Randi M. Kodroff of Bethesda, Md., and Dr. Robert M. Silverbrook of Richboro, Pa. The bride’s father is an internal medicine doctor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Associates in Hamilton Township, N.J. Her mother is a practicing primary care doctor for Comprehensive Primary Care, a primary care medical practice in Chevy Chase, Md.
The groom, 34, is a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist for Capital Women’s Care in Rockville, Md. He graduated from Emory University, and received a medical degree from George Washington University.
He is the son of Marla H. Footer and Dr. Richard N. Footer of Bethesda. The groom’s father, a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist, owns the Footer Obstetrics and Gynecology Group, a private practice in Bethesda, for which the groom’s mother is the office manager.
The couple were introduced in 2013, in Washington, by the bride’s twin.
Ashna Dodla Reddy and Brett Caesar van Zuiden were married Oct. 27 at Taj Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad, India, by an officiant from the Subregistrar Office of Marriages in Malakpet, Hyderabad.
Mrs. Reddy van Zuiden, 28, is the head of home services at Opendoor, a San Francisco-based real estate technology start-up company. She graduated from Yale.
She is a daughter of Anita Dodla Reddy and Prakash Dodla Reddy of Vancouver, Wash. The bride’s parents are the founders of Aquabase West, a seafood importer in Vancouver.
Mr. van Zuiden, also 28, is a product manager in San Francisco for Clever, an education technology start-up company. He graduated from M.I.T.
He is the son of Michele van Zuiden and Gordon van Zuiden of Los Gatos, Calif. The groom’s father is the president and founder of cyberManor, an electrical systems service company for residential homes. His mother, who is retired, was a director of women’s health at El Camino Hospital in Mountainview, Calif.
Hart Huguet Hagerty and Dr. John McElmurray Wrangle were married Oct. 27 in Charleston, S.C. The Rev. Phillip C. Bryant performed the ceremony at the French Huguenot Church, where he is the pastor.
Mrs. Wrangle, 31, is a jewelry designer whose business, Hart, is in Charleston. She graduated from Vanderbilt.
She is a daughter of Barbara G.S. Hagerty and Dr. Richard C. Hagerty of Charleston. The bride’s father, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, retired as a partner in Charleston Plastic Surgery. Her mother is a writer whose recent work includes “Twinzilla” (Word Works, 2013) and other books of poetry, and is also a director of the Spoleto Festival USA, the performing arts event in Charleston.
Dr. Wrangle, 43, is an assistant professor of medicine and a physician-scientist at the Hollings Cancer Center of the Medical University of South Carolina, which is in Charleston and where his research focuses on developing novel immunotherapy strategies for lung cancer. He is also the chief medical officer of Precision Genetics, a company in Greenville, S.C., that specializes in pharmacogenetic testing. He graduated from Tufts and received both a medical degree and a master’s degree, in public health, from Tulane.
He is a son of Philip C. Wrangle of Cashiers, N.C., and the late Mary Louise Close Wrangle. The groom’s mother owned the Sterling Company, an estate silver sales business in Cashiers. His father retired as a lawyer in Houston for Sonat, an oil and gas company.
The couple met in 2014 at a book party in Charleston, and though they went on several dates, she was planning to move to New York and so nothing came of the relationship. In 2017, after she had returned to Charleston, a get-together on the pretext of talking about their respective businesses turned out to be the prelude to their romance. “We went and had wine, and it ended up being a seven-hour date,” she said. “There had always been a huge mutual admiration and respect for each other, but I think we had to be in the same spot for the romance to blossom.”
Elizabeth Tuttle, Jacob Newman
Elizabeth Ruth Tuttle and Jacob Eliezer Newman were married Oct. 27 at the Grafton Inn in Grafton, Vt. Jane Kelly, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, for whom the groom clerked from 2017 to 2018, officiated.
The bride and groom graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.
The bride, 29, is a staff attorney at the Bronx Defenders’ Family Defense Practice, where she represents low-income parents in abuse, neglect and termination of parental rights actions cases. She graduated summa cum laude from Smith College. In 2011-12, she was a Fulbright research fellow, studying social movements in Rio de Janeiro.
She is a daughter of Sharlene F. Tuttle and Leigh D. Tuttle of Harvard, Mass. Her father is a clinical social worker in private practice in Bolton, Mass. Her mother is a sixth grade social studies teacher at the Bromfield School in Harvard.
The groom, 28, is a litigation associate at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, a law firm in Manhattan. He graduated from the University of Chicago.
He is a son of Susan Weiss Newman and David C. Newman of Manhattan. His father is a painter, whose work is on display at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum at the Hebrew Union College in Manhattan and at the Slifka Center at Yale. His mother is the head of the early childhood division at the Rodeph Sholom School in Manhattan.
The couple met at the People’s Republik, a bar near the Harvard campus, right before law school classes started.
Alexandra Stathis, Brian Tsao
Alexandra Hyde Stathis and Brian Liam Tsao were married Oct. 27. April K. Chu, a friend of the couple who is an affiliate of the American Marriage Ministries, officiated at the Ocean Course, a golf club in Kiawah Island, S.C.
Mrs. Tsao, 29, is an account director at Taylor, a public relations and marketing agency in New York. She graduated from the University of Virginia.
She is a daughter of Diane W. Redding of Summit, N.J., and John G. Stathis of Morristown, N.J.
Mr. Tsao, 34, is a vice president for brand communications in the New York office of PMK-BNC, a marketing and public relations agency. He graduated from Cornell and received an M.B.A. from N.Y.U.
He is the son of Lily Tsao and John Tsao of Singapore.
The couple met in 2014 on an advertising shoot at Red Bull Arena, a soccer stadium in Harrison, N.J., and then became colleagues a few months later when he joined PMK-BNC, for which she then worked.
Cynthia Drakeman, Richard Wanerman
Cynthia Leigh Drakeman and Richard Owen Georg Wanerman were married Oct. 27 at the Princeton University Chapel in Princeton, N.J. The Rev. David J. Lucey, an Episcopal priest, performed the ceremony.
Dr. Drakeman, 38, is the founding chief executive of Double X Economy, a research and consulting firm in Washington concerned with the economic empowerment of women. She was the lead author of “Leave No One Behind: Taking Action for Transformational Change on Women’s Economic Empowerment,” a 2017 report for a panel of the United Nations and is an American delegate to the W20, part of the Group of 20 that works for women’s economic advancement. She is also a director of Solar Sister, an organization in Washington that helps women in Tanzania, Nigeria and Uganda become solar-product entrepreneurs.
She graduated from Princeton and received a doctoral degree in classical archaeology from Oxford University in England.
She is a daughter of Lisa N. Drakeman and Donald L. Drakeman of Hilton Head Island, S.C. The bride’s father retired as the chief executive of Medarex, a biotechnology firm that was in Princeton, and is now a venture partner at Advent Life Sciences, a venture capital firm in London. Her mother retired as the chief executive of Genmab, a Danish biotechnology firm with offices in Copenhagen and in Princeton, and now leads seminars on wine and speaks about wine culture and business.
Mr. Wanerman, 29, is a program analyst for sealift support in the Transportation Department’s Maritime Administration, which is in Washington. He performs regulatory and compliance review for a program that provides support to the United States Merchant Marine.
He graduated from Lawrence University of Appleton, Wis. He received a law degree from Case Western Reserve University.
He is the son of Linda Rich Wanerman and Robert E. Wanerman of Potomac, Md. The groom’s mother retired as a senior vice president for bond sales at Smith Barney, the New York investment bank, and is now also a director of Solar Sister. His father is a partner in the health care practice at Epstein Becker & Green, a Washington law firm, and is the president of the board that oversees the programs of the Ivymount School, which is in Rockville, Md., and provides education and other opportunities to children and young adults with special needs.
The couple met in 2016 through Washington National Cathedral’s resident symphonic choir, with which they both continue to sing.
Molly Fox, Stanislav Minsker
Molly Maurer Fox and Stanislav Minsker were married Oct. 27 at a private estate in Oxnard, Calif. Rabbi Sarah Bassin officiated.
The bride, 32, is an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the departments of anthropology and psychiatry, and biobehavioral sciences. She graduated from Yale and received a Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a Gates scholar.
Dr. Fox is a daughter of Katherine A. Maurer and Mitchell B. Fox of Plandome, N.Y. The bride’s father is a member of the board of directors of both Viridian Capital Advisors, a New York investment firm, and Civilized Worldwide, a Canadian media company. He was formerly group president, publishing director of Condé Nast, and the publisher of Vanity Fair magazine. Her mother retired as an alumni affairs coordinator at Friends Academy, a Quaker college preparatory school in Locust Valley, N.Y.
The groom, 33, is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California in the department of mathematics. He graduated from the Novosibirsk State University in Russia and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Minsker is the son of Dr. Elena Dyupina and Nikolai Minsker of Novosibirsk. The groom’s mother is a dermatologist at the Novosibirsk Regional Skin and Venereal Diseases Clinic. His father, a retired civil engineer, was the chief executive of Promzernoproyekt, a design firm, also in Novosibirsk, specializing in the building of flour mills.
The couple met in 2016 through JSwipe, the Jewish dating app.
Kathryn Townsend, Joseph Kashurba
Kathryn Anne Townsend and Joseph Nicholas Kashurba were married Oct. 24 at a magistrate office in Pittsburgh. Eugene Ricciardi, a judge of the Allegheny County magisterial district in Pennsylvania, officiated.
On Oct. 27, the couple took part in a symbolic ceremony at Omni Bedford Springs Resort in Bedford, Pa. Daniel Walker, a friend of the couple, led the ceremony.
The bride, who is 29 and works in Pittsburgh, is a vice president and a suspicious activity reporting specialist at the Bank of New York Mellon. She graduated from George Washington University and received a master’s degree, with merit, in cultural heritage studies from the University of College London.
She is the daughter of Candice Marie Douglas and William Lee Townsend of North Huntingdon, Pa. The bride’s father retired as an employee in the banquet department of the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh. Her mother retired as a food service director at Monongahela Valley Hospital in Monongahela, Pa.
The groom, also 29, owns a web design and online marketing agency in Pittsburgh that bears his name. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh.
He is a son of Mary T. Kashurba of Norristown, Pa., and Dr. Glenn J. Kashurba of Somerset, Pa. The groom’s mother serves as the chief medical officer at Discover Optimal Healthcare, a chiropractic clinic in Philadelphia. His father, a psychiatrist, has a child and adolescent psychiatry practice in Somerset, Pa. Dr. Kashurba guided the families of Flight 93 victims to the crash site in the days following Sept. 11, 2001. He subsequently chronicled his experiences and those of local residents in his book, “Courage After the Crash” (Saj Publishing, 2002).
The couple met on Match.com in September 2012.
Nancy Gottlieb Bauer and Jerry Krivitzky were married Oct. 27 at the River Cafe in Brooklyn. Rabbi Joel Soffin officiated.
The bride, 59, retired as a contract interior designer based in Chicago. She graduated from Northwestern and received an advanced degree in interior design at Harrington Institute of Interior Design in Chicago. She is also a member of both the American Society of Interior Designers and the National Council of Interior Design.
She is a daughter of Elaine Gottlieb and Marvin Gottlieb of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
The groom, 61, is general counsel to Skinder-Strauss, a company in New York that provides legal products and services to other lawyers and law firms. He graduated from Brandeis and received a law degree magna cum laude from Syracuse.
He is the son of Rosalynne Krivitzky of Manhattan and the late Jay Krivitzky, who lived in Manhattan. The groom is the stepson of Harry Cahn.
The bride’s first marriage ended in divorce, as did the groom’s.
The couple met at Brandeis, when both were students there before the bride transferred.
Francesca Sarah Toich and Paul Bertrand Spera were married Oct. 27 at the Supreme Court in Washington. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the groom’s grandmother, officiated.
The bride, 37, and the groom, 32, are Paris-based actors who met in Venice in summer 2016 while performing in Compagnia de’ Colombari’s production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” an ongoing production in which they are still a part. The production premiered in the Venice Ghetto in July 2016 and has since had two runs in the United States, in 2017 and 2018.
The bride, who specializes in commedia dell’arte and in classical Italian poetry, also performed in Goldoni’s “L’uomo di mondo” at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow in October 2016. She graduated with a degree in art history from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice, from which she also holds a master’s degree in performance and multimedia studies.
She is the daughter of Grazia Parlato and Nevio Toich of Vicenza, Italy. The bride’s father retired as a civilian in charge of tactical maintenance supervision and logistics for the United States Army in Vicenza. Her mother, also retired, was a marketing professional for Edipra Srl, a contracting consultant agency for construction corporations, also in Vicenza.
The groom, 32, also appeared in the French cinema feature “Mes Provinciales.” Directed by Jean-Paul Civeyrac and produced by Moby Dick Films, it was released in April 2018 in France, and in August 2018 in the United States. The groom graduated from Yale and received a certificate in acting from the French National Drama Conservatory in Paris.
He is the son of Jane C. Ginsburg and George T. Spera of New York. The groom’s mother is the Morton L. Janklow professor of literary and artistic property law at Columbia Law School. His father is a lawyer at Shearman & Sterling, a law firm in New York.
The bride’s first marriage ended in divorce.
At the wedding, Justice Ginsburg met Lucrezia Mary Spera, her first great-grandchild, who was born to the couple on New Year’s Day.
Eric Wilcox, Matthew Warshauer
Eric David Wilcox and Matthew Chauncey Warshauer were married Oct. 27 in Los Angeles. Dr. Charles M. Wiener, who was ordained by the Church of Spiritual Humanism and is also the godfather of Mr. Warshauer, officiated at Valentine, an events space.
Mr. Wilcox (left), 36, is a senior designer at Marmol Radziner, an architecture firm in Los Angeles.
He is a son of Nancy Burran Forrest of Amarillo, Tex. Mr. Wilcox’s mother is an assistant professor for reading at Amarillo College, a community college. The groom is also a son of James T. Wilcox, also of Amarillo.
Mr. Warshauer, also 36, is a staff writer in Los Angeles for “3Below: Tales of Arcadia,” a television series that is to debut on Netflix in December. His other credits include “Marvel’s Agent Carter,” an ABC series that was broadcast in 2015-16. He graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern.
He is a son of Mary Farshing Warshauer and James W. Warshauer of Rumson, N.J. Mr. Warshauer’s mother is the second vice president of National Garden Clubs, a horticulture-focused volunteer organization in St. Louis. His father is the president of Warshauer Electric Supply Company, a distributorship in Tinton Falls, N.J.
The couple matched on Tinder, the dating app, in 2014, when Mr. Wilcox was in Los Angeles visiting a friend. The two of them texted often, but they didn’t get together to meet for several months, until Mr. Wilcox was again in Los Angeles.
Greta Ann Fails and Nicholas Charles O’Neill were married Oct. 27 at Migis Lodge on Sebago Lake in South Casco, Me. Frank Newman, a Universal Life minister who is a college friend of the couple, officiated.
The couple met in 2004 at freshman orientation at Yale, from which they both graduated.
Ms. Fails, 31, is an associate in the complex trial and appellate group, as well as the intellectual property group, at the Boston law firm Choate, Hall & Stewart. She received a law degree cum laude from N.Y.U.
Ms. Fails is the daughter of Terri Klausner and Gary P. Fails of Tappan, N.Y. The bride’s father is the founder and the president of City Theatrical, a theatrical lighting accessories company with offices in Carlstadt, N.J., and London. Her mother, a musical theater performer, teaches musical theater at Coupé Theater Studio in Nanuet, N.Y. She has appeared in several Broadway musicals, including as the alternate for Evita Perón in “Evita” in 1979, a solo performer in “Sophisticated Ladies” in 1981, and as Bebe Benzenheimer in “A Chorus Line” in 1978. In 1996 she won the Obie award for playing Ludmilla in the Off Broadway musical “Bed & Sofa” at the Vineyard Theater.
Mr. O’Neill, 32, is a Harvard Public Service Venture Fund Legal fellow with the City of Boston Law Department; included among his duties is doing litigation on behalf of the city. He received a law degree cum laude from Harvard. Until 2015, he was the chief of staff for State Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, a Manhattan Democrat.
He is a son of Pamela Percival and Richard O’Neill of Syracuse. Dr. Percival is a psychologist in private practice in Syracuse. She is on the board of Parents for Public Schools of Syracuse, of which she is a founder and a past president. Dr. O’Neill is a professor of psychology at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse. He is also a host of “Cycle of Health,” a weekly television health program on WCNY, a PBS affiliate for 19 counties in central New York.
Ms. Fails and Mr. O’Neill were good friends throughout Yale, but that changed the week of graduation. As they were walking back to campus from a senior celebration, she recalled he suddenly asked her to hold on a second, just long enough for a first kiss.
Ariel Kravitz, Jason Tammam
Dr. Ariel Morgan Kravitz and Jason Tammam are to be married Oct. 28 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. Rabbi Menashe East is to officiate.
The couple both graduated from Vanderbilt, she summa cum laude.
The bride, 30, is a veterinary surgeon at the Gold Coast Center for Veterinary Care in Huntington, N.Y. She received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell.
She is the daughter of Rhonda Greenstein Kravitz and Spencer A. Kravitz of Manhasset Hills, N.Y. The bride’s father is a private stock market investor and was a founder and the president of RTS Wireless, a wireless software development company, now closed, in Plainview, N.Y. Her mother, who is retired, was a prosecutor for the state attorney general’s Criminal Enforcement and Financial Crimes Bureau in New York.
The groom, 33, is the president of Broadspect, a private real estate investment company in Elizabeth, N.J. The groom received a master’s degree in finance and investments from N.Y.U.
He is the son of Sondra Tammam of Westfield, N.J., and the late Joseph Tammam. The groom’s mother is a piano professor at the Cali School of Music at Montclair State University in Montclair, N.J. His father was a private real estate investor in central New Jersey.
The couple met through the dating app the League in 2017 in New York.
Katherine Grunzweig, Peter Fellowes
Dr. Katherine Alan Grunzweig and Peter Austin Fellowes were married Oct. 27 at the Club at Hillbrook, an events space in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Dr. Sven Gunther, who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated, with the Rev. Dale T. Grandfield, an Episcopal priest, participating.
Dr. Grunzweig, 29, is a third-year resident in plastic and reconstructive surgery at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in Ohio. She graduated from Yale and received a medical degree with honors from the University of Washington.
She is the daughter of Glenda Burgess of Spokane, Wash., and the late Kenneth A. Grunzweig. The bride’s father was the chief executive of ManageMark, a technology company that was in Sunnyvale, Calif. He was also a landscape and portrait photographer whose work is in the fine art collection at the University of California, Berkeley. Her mother is an author whose latest book is the “Geography of Love: A Memoir” (2008 Broadway Books). The bride is the stepdaughter of Dr. Gregory S. Miller.
Mr. Fellowes, also 29, works in Cleveland as a senior data scientist at Coffee Meets Bagel, a dating app based in San Francisco. Until August, he was a data scientist at IBM Watson Health in Cleveland. He graduated from Princeton, and received a master’s degree in bioinformatics from the University of California, San Francisco.
He is a son of Dagmar F. Fellowes and Frederick A. Fellowes of Pepper Pike, Ohio. The groom’s mother, a lawyer, is an assistant general counsel at the Progressive Group of Insurance Companies in Mayfield Village, Ohio. She is a trustee of Western Reserve Academy, a private high school in Hudson, Ohio. His father is based in Pepper Pike as a consultant in the auto parts e-commerce industry.
The bride and groom met in 2016 on OkCupid.
Margaretta Mitchell, Sim Warkov
Margaretta K. Mitchell and Seymour Warkov are to be married Oct. 28. Judge Tara M. Flanagan of the Alameda County Superior Court is to officiate at the bride’s home in Berkeley, Calif.
The bride, a photographer, and the groom, a poet, met in 1998 through a college classmate of Ms. Mitchell, who had met Mr. Warkov through yet another friend, on Block Island, in Rhode Island. A connection was suggested, and Mr. Warkov called Ms. Mitchell after he had returned to California, and asked her to lunch. The couple has since collaborated, and together produced a book of photography and poetry, “Island Dreams” (Elysian Editions, 2017).
Ms. Mitchell, 83, is the author of “Recollections: Ten Women of Photography” (Viking, 1979), ”The Face of Poetry” (University of California, Berkeley Press, 2005) and other volumes of her work. Her photographs are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography and other museums. She graduated from Smith College and received a master’s degree in visual studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
She is the daughter of late Margaretta Rice Kuhlthau and the late Conrad W. Kuhlthau, who lived in New Brunswick, N.J.
Mr. Warkov, 88, is known as Sim. He is the author of “Thin Soils: Poems” (Ice-Blue Press, 2009) and “Reaching” (Ice-Blue Press, 2006) and other books of poetry. He retired as a sociology professor at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. He graduated from the New School for Social Research and received a doctoral degree in sociology from Yale.
He is a son of the late Rose Warkov and the late Mendel Warkov, who lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The bride was a widow and the groom was a widower.
