Michael Joshua Wartofsky and Imtiyaz Hussein were married in Boston on Saturday at the Union Club of Boston. Pamela Shime, a friend of the couple, received permission from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to officiate at the ceremony, which incorporated Ismaili and Jewish traditions.
...were married Saturday. The Rev. Leslie Harry Cohen, an interfaith minister, officiated at a nondenominational ceremony at the Plaza in New York.
He's a Multi Faith minister who studied at the New Seminary, Reverend Leslie was ordained at the Cathedral of "St. John the Divine" in New York City.
Reverend Leslie has performed weddings in many religions, including Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim and combinations of each. Because Reverend Leslie acknowledges and honors all religions, faiths, practices and spirituality, the content of your wedding can be whatever you want it to be.
From strongly religious to strictly civil and anything in between
Ceremonies for interfaith couples
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Dena Elyse Rosenberg, a daughter of Denise Rosenberg and Gary M. Rosenberg of Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., was married Saturday evening to Thaddeus Marcus Verhoff, a son of Gwendolyn Z. Verhoff of Washington and Dennis F. Verhoff of Reva, Va. Rabbi Edward Schecter officiated at Guastavino’s, an event space in New York.
...The bride and bridegroom met over the Fourth of July weekend in 1996, when Ms. Rosenberg and a friend stayed in Washington as houseguests of Mr. Verhoff’s oldest friend. Ms. Rosenberg and Mr. Verhoff saw each other now and then over the years and even kissed five years later at a wedding. But they were seeing others and were in different cities.
In 2005, both were unattached when Mr. Verhoff contacted Ms. Rosenberg. That led to a date on New Year’s Eve, which eventually led to repeated train travel between New York and Washington.
Mr. Verhoff moved to New York in 2007, and by that summer he and Ms. Rosenberg had devised a list of joint goals: lose weight, get new jobs, and become engaged.
“We were taking a gut check,” Mr. Verhoff said. “ We had to step back and see what we were really talking about and make sure we were heading in the same direction.”
The year, however, ended without an engagement. When they both went to her grandmother’s bat mitzvah ceremony — something her grandmother had delayed until the age of 84 — their rabbi got into the act.
Mr. Verhoff recalled being taken aside by Rabbi Schecter, the same rabbi who led yesterday’s ceremony, who asked: “Are you just going to live together or get married?”
He reassured the rabbi by saying, “Things are in the works, don’t worry.’
A week later, during a run with Ms. Rosenberg in Central Park, he got down on one knee and proposed.
Totally off guard, Ms. Rosenberg agreed, told him to “shut up,” and then punched his shoulder, she remembered.
As they resumed their run, Ms. Rosenberg glanced in disbelief at the ring on her finger and giggled hysterically.
Rachel Carla Kaplan and Eric Aaron Reicher are to be married Sunday in Great Barrington, Mass. Rabbi Deborah Zecher is to officiate.
The bride, 28, will take her husband’s name. She is an associate in the Washington office of the Chicago law firm Kirkland & Ellis. She graduated, cum laude, from Tufts University with bachelor’s degrees in psychology and environmental studies, and she received her law degree from Boston University.
She is the daughter of Lynne Pevzner Kaplan and David T. Kaplan of Chevy Chase, Md. The bride’s father is the assistant deputy administrator for plant protection and quarantine in the Agriculture Department Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Her mother is an organizational development consultant in Chevy Chase.
The bridegroom, 30, is a litigation associate at the Washington law firm Williams & Connolly. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton and received his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard.
He is a son of Terri A. Reicher and Dr. Oscar A. Reicher of Pompton Lakes, N.J. The bridegroom’s mother, a lawyer, is an independent mediator and arbitrator specializing in commercial disputes and is an adjunct professor of law at the Cotsakos College of Business at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J. She is a trustee of the Chilton Memorial Hospital Foundation. His father, an orthopedic surgeon, is the managing partner and the founder of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine Center, a group medical practice with offices in Wayne and in Lincoln Park, N.J. He also teaches orthopedic surgery in the physical therapy program at the Newark campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler were married Thursday evening at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco. Howard Steiermann, a minister of the Universal Ministries, officiated at a ceremony that included Jewish traditions.
...Mr. Doonan and Mr. Adler met in November 1994 on a blind date arranged by a mutual friend.
...“We have a ridiculous amount in common,” Mr. Doonan said. “We both hate smug people. We both rant at the same things.” And, he added, “We both drink a lot of tea.”
Lauren Michelle Popkin married Seth Adam Herschthal Saturday in Hendersonville, N.C. Rabbi Robert P. Frazin officiated with Rabbi Paul Plotkin in the Elmore Solomon Chapel at Camp Blue Star, a summer camp owned by the bride’s parents, Candy N. Popkin and Rodger M. Popkin of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Annie Deborah Kaufman, a daughter of Lynne Drohlich Kaufman and Ron S. Kaufman of Beverly Hills, Calif., is to be married on Sunday evening to Tad Andrew Josiah Fallows, a son of Deborah Fallows and James M. Fallows of Beijing. Rabbi Ian Adler is to perform the ceremony, which will include elements of Christian and Jewish traditions, at the Langham, Huntington Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, Calif.
Andrew Lippa, a composer, and David Bloch, a film marketing executive, were married on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Diane Wayne, a retired judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court, officiated at the home of Paula Holt, a friend of Judge Wayne’s.
On Sunday, Rabbi Daniel Sklar will lead a religious ceremony with his wife, Cantor Shirah Sklar, at the Mr. Lippa’s and Mr. Bloch’s country house in Milford, Pa.
Mr. Lippa and Mr. Bloch met in May 1998 in the lobby of the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center...Mr. Lippa said he was “instantly smitten” by Mr. Bloch. “I felt that magic thing you feel with someone who fits,” he said.
Kimberlee Dawn Auletta, a daughter of Mary and Richard Auletta of Manhattan, was married on Saturday to Eric Daniel Landau, a son of Nancy and Peter Landau of New Hope, Pa. The Rev. Cathlin Baker, a minister of the United Church of Christ, led a ceremony that included Christian and Jewish traditions at the summer home of the bride’s parents in Killingworth, Conn.
Tamara Lynn Wieder and William Brock Bair were married on Saturday at Blithewold, a historic house and estate in Bristol, R.I. Dennis I. Revens, who retired as the administrator of the Rhode Island Workers’ Compensation Court in Providence, officiated at a ceremony incorporating Presbyterian and Jewish traditions that was led by Anne D. Lowrance, a friend of the bridegroom’s family.
Suzanne Christa Hoppough and Neil Robert Blecher were married on Saturday at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester. Rabbi David Abrahams officiated at the ceremony, and Cathleen M. Brauen, a minister of the Sanctuary of the Beloved, assisted.
Dr. Jessica Mary Clement, a daughter of Barbara A. Praiano of Haverhill, Mass., and David A. Clement of Southern Pines, N.C., was married on Saturday evening in Montego Bay, Jamaica, to Dr. Jordan Neels Greenbaum, the son of Beth L. Greenbaum and Nathan J. Greenbaum of Potomac, Md. Stephen Henriques, a marriage officer for Jamaica and acting leader of the United Congregation of Israelites there, led a Jewish ceremony at the Rose Hall Resort & Country Club.
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