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
Oct 26, 2006
2:39 a.m.
7 pounds, 8 ounces
St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Birthing Center
When Cobble Hill resident Gina Schmeling went into labor with her firstborn, Creeley, now 3, she inspired warfare (or a fare war, as the case may be) between two cabbies. “Both drivers showed up and fought on our street about who would Read More
Charlie Asfour and Rebecca McFarland
Met: September 2005
Engaged: Dec. 27, 2006
Projected Wedding Date: June 2008
When Rebecca McFarland first glimpsed dark-haired Charlie Asfour at Crobar in Chelsea, her immediate impression was that—dimples and athletic building notwithstanding—he resembled Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. “He was very attractive, but very … sad, almost,” Ms. Farland Read More
Oct. 28, 2006
7:40 a.m.
6 pounds, 13 ounces
New York University Hospital
It’s a writ of baby-us corpus! Court TV copy editor Susie Felber endured 14 hours of unproductive labor before opting for a C-section. “At this point, I don’t care if you take him out of my nostril,” Ms. Felber, who is also Read More
Peter Meehan and Hannah Clark
Met: 1987
Engaged: June 14, 2006
Projected Wedding Date: May 2007
Peter Meehan, the newish “$25 & Under” columnist for The New York Times’ Dining In, Dining Out section—and by the way, isn’t it time they adjusted that figure upward?—wasn’t the most obvious heir to Eric Asimov’s gastro-throne. “Growing up, Read More
Sept. 27, 2006
6:46 a.m.
7 pounds, 6 ounces
New York–Presbyterian Hospital
Bronx bombshell-ette! The Observer’s own David Bendayan, 29, senior account executive of classified sales, has us totally sold on this hazel-eyed, black-haired little beauty, his first baby with fiancée Ida Ramos, 32, a registered nurse at St. Barnabas Hospital in da Bronx (where Read More
David Cohen and Jessica Sheena
Met: December 2005
Engaged: Oct. 12, 2006
Projected Wedding Date: Nov. 24, 2007
David Cohen, 28, a product specialist at Black Rock, an investment firm, plans to marry Jessica Sheena, 25, the slender, brunette senior communications specialist for the clothing chain New York & Company, at the Puck Building, in Read More
Sarah Kay and Matthew Lacks
Met: May 19, 2004
Engaged: Oct. 14, 2006
Projected Wedding Date: Nov. 17, 2007
The week Sarah Kay began work as the director of community programs at the Upper West Side’s Jewish Community Center, she had just extricated herself from a relationship with a lawyer. “Three years is as long Read More
Oct. 21, 2006
5:56 a.m.
6 pounds, 12 ounces
St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital
It’s a … CosmoGirl! The teen magazine’s deputy editor, Chandra Czape Turner, marked the onset of contractions by heading to the office, having breakfast at Norma’s and getting an eyebrow wax. “The whole time I was doubting myself,” said Ms. Turner, 32, also Read More
Una LaMarche and Jeff Zorabedian
Met: 2000
Engaged: Oct. 13, 2006
Projected Wedding Date: Oct. 19, 2007
Una LaMarche and Jeff Zorabedian, both 26, knew each other vaguely as undergraduates at Wesleyan University, the thinking person’s Brown, where she majored in film and he in theater. Ms. LaMarche cut a formidable figure around the Connecticut Read More
