Countdown to Bliss

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

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Robert Lyons and Kelly Moylan

Met: June 2005

Engaged: March 8, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: Dec. 2, 2006

Robert Lyons, 35, a film and video producer with his own production company, Quixotic Industries, plans to marry Kelly Moylan, 37, a psychotherapist who also acts and sings, at Gedney Farm in New Marlborough, Mass. The reception Read More

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Ursula Lang and James Lee

Met: Spring 2001

Engaged: May 19, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: May 18, 2008

It was a big day for James Lee when the new Apple store opened on Fifth Avenue. “I’m a big Mac fan,” he said, “of the really ultra-geeky variety.” But Mr. Lee, a medical student at Yale, Read More

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Michele D’Aprix and David Gordon

Met: Jan. 2005

Engaged: Aug. 25, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: Fall/Winter 2007

It was the great blizzard of 2005, and Michele D’Aprix, a bartender at Level V, one of the meatpacking district’s many lounges, was enjoying a glass of red wine and a copy of Jonathan Ames’ The Extra Man Read More

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Demetria Collins and Joshua Irwin

Met: July 2005

Engaged: Oct. 2, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: June 3, 2007

If the ring fits, you must get hitched! Joshua Irwin, 34, a personal injury attorney at the Cochran Firm, founded by the late Johnnie Cochran, is betrothed to Demetria Collins, 27, an urban planner for Manhattan Borough Read More

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Benjamin Peikes and LeNell Smothers

Met: December 2000

Engaged: Dec. 25, 2005

Projected Wedding Date: T.B.A.

“Gay,” LeNell Smothers thought, as Benjamin Peikes arrived at the Met Grotto’s Caving Club Christmas party wearing a velvet leopard-printed shirt.

“Definitely gay,” she decided a few months later, walking into Mr. Peikes’ Forest Hills one-bedroom en route to Read More

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Craig Ellish and Nora Grudman

Met: June 2005

Engaged: April 28, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: Dec. 2, 2006

Nora Grudman had only just moved to New York to start a new job as a senior press manager at Bravo Television, and already her mom was calling her at work to play yenta.

“He’s Read More

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Aaron Matthew Guzikowski and Alison Hope Silverman

Met: May 2001

Engaged: Dec. 25, 2005

Projected Wedding Date: Oct. 14, 2006

One morning, Alison Silverman and her roommate awoke to a flashing answering machine in their Washington Heights apartment. I love you, but you have to let me go! sang out an Read More

Countdown to Bliss

Tara Lorraine Padua and Harrison Grant Wise

Met: June 2004

Engaged: Dec. 31, 2005

Projected Wedding Date: Dec. 31, 2007

What an accomplishment! Tara Padua, 31, a life coach for Accomplishment Coaching, is planning her dream wedding to Harrison Wise, 30, a vice president at Rubenstein Public Relations, at the Villa Montana resort in Aquadilla, Read More

Countdown to Bliss

Jerry Neugebauer and Eunice Hong

Met: 1999

Engaged: Dec. 17, 2005

Projected Wedding Date: Sept. 30, 2006

Jerry Neugebauer, 28, a lawyer at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton L.L.P., plans to wed Eunice Hong, also 28, an interior designer for Mancini Duffy. The Reverend Allan Lokos and Susanna Weiss—married interfaith ministers—will Read More