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Karlyn Adams and John Barneson
For Karlyn Adams, daughter of Kathy and James Adams of Cos Cob, and John Barneson III, son of Julie and John Barneson II of Spokane, Washington, the road from dating as Stanford University undergraduates to marrying seven years later took a few detours.
While John, now a managing partner of Bay Capital Partners, based in San Francisco, was pursuing a career in investment banking, Karlyn’s interests in business and international economic development led her from IBM in White Plains to the Republic of Guinea in West Africa with OIC International, a nonprofit education organization, and to work projects in Lebanon, France and Namibia. The Greenwich Country Day and American School of Paris alumna is now in the homestretch for a dual MBA and master’s in International Affairs at the Wharton School and Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.
The Reverend Robert H. Naylor officiated at the couple’s wedding at Stanwich Congregational Church. At the Belle Haven Club reception, Karlyn’s sister, Roanne Adams, and friend John Wahba surprised the Philadelphia newlyweds with a traditional West African unity ceremony performed by drummers and dancers.
Nancy Mandel and Justin Slatky
Nancy Ellen Mandel, daughter of Sandra and Harold Mandel of West Palm Beach, Florida, became the bride of Justin Warren Slatky, son of Rosalind Shenkman of Greenwich and Larry Slatky of Cold Spring Harbor, New York. The wedding took place at Oheka Castle in Cold Spring Hills, New York, where the bridegroom’s mother and his stepfather, Mark Shenkman, were wed nine years ago. Cantor Kenneth Cohen, formerly of Temple Sholom, Greenwich, officiated.
The couple met five years ago through mutual friends. Justin proposed on a beach in Nevis after a hike, offering a sparkly ring from a Cracker Jack box as stand-in for the real thing.
Nancy, currently teaching kindergarten at the Horace Mann School, received a master’s degree in education from New York University. She is a junior board member of Careers Thru Culinary Arts, a New York City program for disadvantaged youth.
Justin, who received his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, is a summa cum laude graduate of the Wharton School. He is a managing director at Goldman Sachs in the high- yield securities group in New York.
The Manhattan newlyweds honeymooned in Crete and Athens.
Ilona Jason and Onur Eken
Sixty guests from the United States and Lithuania joined two hundred others in Turkey at Istanbul’s Ciragan Palace overlooking the Bosporus Strait at the wedding of Ilona Jason, daughter of Julie Jason of Greenwich and Marius Jason of Vilnius, Lithuania, and Onur Eken, son of Senol and Erol Eken of Bursa, Turkey.
The New York couple met while working as management consultants after college (his: Bobazici University in Istanbul; hers: Columbia). Ilona was based in New York, Onur in London. After taking turns flying across the Atlantic for two years, they attended Columbia Business School together, receiving their MBAs, his with honors, in 2005.
American and Turkish traditions personalized their wedding, a civil ceremony. Festivities at the palace, built by an Ottoman sultan and now a luxury hotel, continued until 4 a.m.
Ilona, a bond research associate at Banc of America Securities in New York, attended Greenwich schools through junior high. She is also an alumna of Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor.
Onur is an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in New York. He and his bride honeymooned in the Maldive Islands.
Amy Hammock and Richard Williamson
Shared memories of Mrs. Baldwin’s first-grade class at Riverside School and Greenwich High School sparked a romance for classmates Amy Elizabeth Hammock and Richard Travis Williamson, reunited at Grand Central Station while heading home to visit their respective Riverside parents, Jacqueline and William Hammock Jr., and Constance and Richard Davis Williamson.
Fast-forward to Travis’s proposal to Amy on bended knee in front of Riverside School, as his parents, hiding behind the bushes, waited to capture the moment on camera.
The wedding and reception took place at the Belle Haven Club. The Reverend Ashley Grant, a Congregational minister, officiated.
Amy is a corporate banker with Citigroup in New York. She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Connecticut in Storrs and earned an MBA in finance at Boston College.
Travis, the head trader at DCF Financial Capital in Greenwich, is a candidate for an MBA in finance from the University of Connecticut, Stamford. The Lafayette College graduate holds a bachelor’s degree in economics.
He and his bride honeymooned in the Greek islands and Venice.
Kathleen Raben and David Seeley
Shared memories of Mrs. Baldwin’s first-grade class at Riverside School and Greenwich High School sparked a romance for classmates Amy Elizabeth Hammock and Richard Travis Williamson, reunited at Grand Central Station while heading home to visit their respective Riverside parents, Jacqueline and William Hammock Jr., and Constance and Richard Davis Williamson.
Fast-forward to Travis’s proposal to Amy on bended knee in front of Riverside School, as his parents, hiding behind the bushes, waited to capture the moment on camera.
The wedding and reception took place at the Belle Haven Club. The Reverend Ashley Grant, a Congregational minister, officiated.
Amy is a corporate banker with Citigroup in New York. She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Connecticut in Storrs and earned an MBA in finance at Boston College.
Travis, the head trader at DCF Financial Capital in Greenwich, is a candidate for an MBA in finance from the University of Connecticut, Stamford. The Lafayette College graduate holds a bachelor’s degree in economics.
He and his bride honeymooned in the Greek islands and Venice.
Lauren Whyte and Christopher Connolly
A chance meeting in a snowstorm led to the wedding of Lauren Leigh Whyte and Christopher Connolly. After her parka was stolen at a local restaurant, Lauren, then a sophomore at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, was walking back to her dormitory, cold and upset, when upperclassman Chris noticed her plight and offered her his jacket.
The graduates, who later worked in the Boston area, were married at the Coveleigh Club in Rye, New York. The Reverend Robert Taylor of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Riverside, officiated. Opera singers Alexa Murphy, the bride’s sister, and Laura Danehower Whyte, her sister-in-law, sang Offenbach’s Barcarole during the seaside ceremony.
Lauren, daughter of Diana and Anthony Whyte of Riverside, is now the East Coast field training merchandise manager for Winston Retail Solutions in New York. She is a Greenwich High School graduate.
Chris, a Pingree School alumnus, is the son of Muriel and Patrick Connolly of Melrose, Massachusetts. Formerly a regional sales manager covering Boston for Tyco’s industrial security services division, he is relocating to the New York area to pursue a law degree and new opportunities.
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