The following are the wedding notices selected for publication by the New York Times on Sunday, July 25 2010.
The Weddings that Matter
(in order of appearance)
- A couple who met at Harvard, graduating cum laude
- A son of the Ferrers of Southampton and an associate of the Warburg Pincus investment house, to a daughter of the director of the Princeton University Press and a noted author. The couple met at first at Princeton, and again at a get together in the Hamptons.
- A lawyer with the New York firm Debevoise & Plimpton and daughter of a Philip Morris executive, to a Senior Vice President for a company that raises money for hedge funds.
- A documentary producer, author and Fulbright scholar, to a cinematographer. The couple met at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
- Two doctors, one in infectious disease and the other in opthalmology, who met at Penn State.
- The public relations director of the French Institute Alliance Francaise, daughter of the owners of the Kutsher’s Country Club of Monticello, NY, to the executive managing director of the New York stock trading firm Koyote Capital.
- A clinical social worker and therapeutic counselor, to a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
- A publicity writer for the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, to an editor at National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition.”
- Owner of a marketing company in New Rochelle, New York, to the President and CEO of a bank in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
- Vice President of a New York and Boca Raton interior design firm, to a freelance illustrator and graphic designer.
- Associate with the New York office of Handel Architects, to a senior architect with Herzog & de Meuron Architects.
- Senior tax manager in mergers and acquisitions with Deloitte, to the owner of an art gallery and recent director of retail development for Estee Lauder.
- Advertising and marketing manager for Coca-Cola, to a senior employee benefits consultant. The couple met at Princeton.
- A seventh-grade English teacher, to a high school English teacher. The couple met at Middlebury College in Vermont.
- Medical director of the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit at Mount Sinai Medical Center, to a computer engineer for Bloomberg.
- Entertainment manager for the New Jersey Nets and summa cum laude graduate from Harvard, to the creative director for Spike TV.
- Special events coordinator for the Peace Corps and daughter of Senator Bill Nelson, to a partner in a Miami law firm.
- Law student, to the director of the Office of Public Affairs at the Justice Department.
- Mathematics teacher, to a legislative assistant for U.S. Representative Jay Inslee.
- 4th grade teacher at the Town School in Manhattan, daughter of the Vice Chair of Young & Rubican and a creative director at Benton & Bowles (two New York advertising firms), to a Vice President at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
- Bond analyst at Citigroup, to a risk management consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- Senior manager of the Sony real estate portfolio in North America, to the North American sales manager for Moreover Technologies.
- Guitarist for Def Leppard, to a representative of a company offering VIP tickets at entertainment events.
- Executive director of a charter school, to a Vice President for Operations in Citigroup.
- Law student, to policy counsel for Free Press.
- Operations analyst for STG Capital Management hedge fund and daughter of the COO for Ernst & Young, to an investment analyst at Marathon Asset Management.
- Elementary school teacher, to a certified public accountant for the New York Times.
- Daughter of a writer for Sports Illustrated and Conde Nast and an estate historian and author of a book about the du Pont family, to a PhD student in cultural geography.
- Daughter of the owner of Lender’s Bagels and president of the United Jewish Appeal, to the head of middle school at a Quaker School in New York City.
- Assistant director of procurement at Stanford Hospital and daughter of the director of emergency department at Exerter Hospital and the program director at the Endowment for Health, to a pediatric oncologist and son of an operations specialist at Deutsche Bank.
- Nursery school teacher, daughter of an investment banker and coordinator of charity events, and descendant of New York Mayor and Columbia College President Seth Low, to an MBA student and son of a managing director at Goldman Sachs.
- Masters’ student in math education and daughter of a private lawyer and a partner at the McGladrey & Pullen accounting firm, to a PhD candidate in computer science.
- Gastroenterology fellow at Boston University Medical Center, to an emergency medicine doctor and clinical instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
- A pair of dancers/choreographers who met at the Merce Cunningham Studio.
- Freelance fashion stylist, to the television director of New York Knicks telecasts.
- Supervisor of clerical staff at the New York Times and playwright, to a news assistant at the New York Times Sunday Business section.
- A pair of rabbinical students at American Jewish University.
At least half will end in divorce, statistically.
Myth.
Your right. It looks like the rate is just over 40% according to the below, which is way better. I wonder how many annulments there are as well. Would the total number look like. This is a huge problem
http://www.divorcereform.org/rates.html