Dec. 31, 2006
8 a.m.
8 pounds, 6 ounces
New York Downtown Hospital
Husband-and-wife architects James and Hayes Slade, both 40, have built quite a family in the 18 years they’ve been married: Ana, 14, Santi, 13, Stella, 2, and now this beautiful little bald, pinkish addition, the news of which prompted cheers and hugs Read More
Inna Barmash and Lev (Ljova) Zhurbin
Met: March 1, 2004
Engaged: Jan. 14, 2005
Projected Wedding Date: August 2007
Mash-up marriage! Inna Barmash, lead singer of Romashka, a Gypsy band, plans to wed Lev (Ljova) Zhurbin, a classically trained violist and composer, at a yet-to-be disclosed location. Both are 28.
They met after the dark, Read More
Tina Balazs and Michael Ferreter
Met: December 2000
Engaged: Aug. 15, 2006
Projected Wedding Date: Feb. 10, 2007
Michael Ferreter, 32, a production manager for ABC News, is marrying Tina Balazs, 29, an associate project manager for the Publicist Medical Education Group, who is no relation to the boutique hotelier (and Uma Thurman’s boyfriend) Andre—we Read More
9:54 a.m.
7 pounds, 6 ounces
New York Presbyterian
Julie Zarou, 31, who until last spring was the director of special events at the Institute of Culinary Education, has cooked up a beautiful, blond, fair-skinned and big-eared son with her husband of five years, Sam Zarou, 34, a trader with Tullett Prebon. In an apparent Read More
At the Perch Café on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, where neighborhood parents take their tots for early-morning sing-alongs, Roxanne Jacobson was buckling her son, 17-month-old Geir, into his stroller the other day. “It’s Norwegian,” she said of his name. “I love the sound of it.”
Nearby, nanny Katie MacDonald was attending to a 1-year-old Read More
Alfonso Du Toit and Emily Martinez
Met: May 29, 2006
Engaged: Sept. 1, 2006
Projected Wedding Date: May 27, 2007
Alfonso Du Toit, a tanned, blond South African, was enjoying mojitos outside at Madiba in Fort Greene, where a friend was tending bar, when he noticed a striking, petite brunette sitting with friends at a Read More
Oct. 24, 2006
9:55 p.m.
6 pounds, 13 ounces
Pascack Valley Hospital
Gourmet grommet! Nina Planck, 35, foxy founder of farmers’ markets in New York, Washington, D.C., and London, wanted to have a home birth in her Stuyvesant Town one-bedroom, but wound up delivering this brown-eyed, brown-haired sprout by C-section in New Jersey after 36 Read More
Oct. 28, 2006
6:44 p.m.
7 pounds, 4 ounces
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Such naches! David Adelson, 36, a rabbi at East End Temple near Stuyvesant Town, has welcomed this beautiful little blessing with his wife of three years, Lynn Harris, 37, a Park Slope writer, whose water broke unexpectedly one rainy morning. “It was due Read More
Amanda Hankes and Damion Stodola
Met: Dec. 2003
Engaged: Dec. 10, 2006
Projected Wedding Date: Fall 2007
As a member of the New York City Ballet’s corps de ballet, Amanda Hankes never had much time for relationships. When her brother-in-law introduced her to dark, bearded Damion Stodola at a Christmas party, Ms. Hankes thought: No, Read More
Marc Ricks and Elisa Strauss
Met: April 4, 2005
Engaged: July 20, 2006
Projected Wedding Date: Oct. 6, 2007
How sweet it is! Elisa Strauss, the popular Upper West Side–based cake designer responsible for the elaborate pink-and-white confection at Kimora Lee Simmons’ 30th birthday, plans to marry Marc Ricks, chief of staff for Daniel Doctoroff, Read More
