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Jennifer Lynn Panaro met Michael Rand Anderson when both were graduate students at Fairfield University. One evening, when they were out with a group of mutual friends, Michael put mini frozen hot dogs into her purse as a joke. “He made his mark,” the bride recalls.
Quite the humorist, Michael proposed by sending Jennifer on a scavenger hunt for her birthday, hiding clues all over town, including their favorite restaurant and a park bench where he placed a dozen roses. Just when she thought the hunt was over, he brought her to another bench near the beach where he sat down and started to read a newspaper until finally asking her come look at the ocean, where he surprised her with a serious proposal. At their engagement party, the couple served mini hot dogs to friends and family who knew the joke.
Reverend Thomas J. Regan, a former professor at Fairfield, performed the wedding ceremony at St. Catherine of Siena in Greenwich, where the bride’s great-grandmother, grandmother and mother were also married. A reception followed at the Riverside Yacht Club.
The bride graduated from New Canaan High School, received an MBA in marketing and finance, and is a director of strategic marketing at Pitney Bowes in Stamford. She began her career at Greenwich Magazine in 1997 as assistant editor. Her parents are Joseph and Janet Panaro of Greenwich, formerly of New Canaan.
The groom holds an MBA in finance and is a regional vice president at Greenfield Online in Wilton. His parents are Mary Rand Anderson of Scituate, Massachusetts, and Robert Anderson of San Diego, California.
The couple took a two-week honeymoon to Maui, Hawaii, and Napa Valley in California. They live in Fairfield.
Lesley Elizabeth Langsam met Patrick Joseph Kennedy while both were working at Vivo restaurant. At the time, Patrick was working as a builder’s apprentice, while Lesley was beginning a new career at Saks Fifth Avenue. Vivo didn’t last, but Lesley and Patrick’s relationship was just getting warmed up! Patrick convinced Lesley to climb three flights of stairs of a house he was building in the center of New Canaan where he proposed.
The couple was married by Rabbi Richard Chapin of the Greenwich Reform Synagogue at the Wequassett Inn Resort and Golf Club in Chatham, Massachusetts. A reception followed at Twenty-Eight Atlantic.
The bride, a graduate of Greenwich High School, attended both the Storrs and Stamford campuses of the University of Connecticut. She is the daughter of Lynda and Barry Langsam of Greenwich and is a director of public relations for Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Her father is an oral maxillofacial surgeon and the chief of oral surgery and outpatient anesthesia at Rose F. Kennedy Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. He is also an assistant clinical professor at Jacoby Hospital and director of dentistry and chief of oral surgery at the Sound Shore Medical Center. Her mother is the business manager for the private oral surgery practice.
The groom is a graduate of New Canaan High School and Northeastern University. He is the son of Drew and Marianne Kennedy of New Canaan. He is a partner in Kennedy Development, a residential development company in New Canaan.
The New Canaan residents honeymooned in the Bahamas.
Alicia Carol Haus, daughter of Dorothy Kindel of Berea, Kentucky, and Donald O. Haus of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, married William Russell Diefenbach, son of Karolyn B. Diefenbach of Old Greenwich and the late William S. Diefenbach. Judge Carolyn Hayek performed the ceremony at the couple’s new home in Kirkland, Washington, and a reception followed. The couple met online and were initially attracted to one another based on a shared passion for Formula One auto racing and international travel.
The bride is a graduate of Coeur d’Alene High School and Washington State University in Pullman, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature. After a career in state government as a financial crime fighter, she launched her own business as a financial education consultant and public speaker.
The groom is a graduate of Greenwich High School and the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Following a career at Microsoft, he took a five-year sabbatical to work on personal goals, which included traveling the world and becoming a race car driver in both amateur and professional series.
The Washington state newlyweds honeymooned in the Republic of Maldives, Phuket and Bangkok.
When John Mulderrig met Celine Ann Duffy at an Upper West Side bar and asked for her phone number, she demurred, saying she was the only Celine Duffy in the Manhattan phone book. She was and he found the listing. Fast-forward three years when John proposed at the Water Club on the East River.
Gale-force winds gave way to brightening skies as the bride stepped out of the bridal car at St. Catherine of Siena church. While the mass went on, the heavens poured, but as the organ music swelled at the end of the ceremony, the sun greeted guests exiting from the church to the sounds of a bagpiper. A reception followed at the Riverside Yacht Club where a power outage forced the band to go acoustical and the scene became a rousing sing-a-long. When the power came back, the dancing continued.
The bride, a graduate of Greenwich High School and the University of Connecticut, is the daughter of Jean and the late Hugh P. Duffy of Cos Cob. The groom, a graduate of Cold Spring Harbor High School and Iona College, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mulderrig of Lloyd Harbor, New York.
Following a honeymoon in Costa Rica, the newlyweds are living in New York City, where Celine is a group director of Digital Marketing in the Business Media group at VNU, Inc., and John is a media entrepreneur.
One might say that the marriage of Jennifer Scaglione and Jeffrey Morris was all in the blood. They met when Jeff was working at a doctor’s office as a phlebotomist, and Jennifer came in to have blood drawn. Three years later, they were married at St. Mary Church by the Reverend Monsignor Frank C. Wissel. Morning storms and high winds gave way to a beautiful afternoon as the bride arrived at the church. A reception followed at the Tomes-Higgins House.
Jennifer, the daughter of Rita Scaglione of Greenwich, graduated from Greenwich High School and Johnson &Wales University with a bachelor’s degree in culinary arts. She owns the restaurant My Favorite Place in Cos Cob.
Jeff, son of Richard Morris and Susan Morris, both of Greenwich, graduated from Greenwich High School and served in the United States Marine Corp. He is a certified personal trainer in private practice and at the Greenwich YMCA.
Following a honeymoon in Mexico, the newlyweds have settled in Greenwich.
Stephanie Elizabeth Gibsone Jessop, daughter of Susan Elizabeth Ness of Greenwich, Digby, Nova Scotia, and Stratton, Vermont, married Luiz Eduardo Augusto Borges, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luiz Victoriano Augusto Borges of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at Christ Church Greenwich. The bride was given in marriage by her father, Anthony George John Jessop of Evergreen, Colorado.
The Reverend Jeffrey H. Walker performed the candlelight wedding, which had an international flair with readings in Portuguese, French and Italian. Laura Dannehower Whyte performed three solos during the service. The couple was whisked away in a vintage Rolls-Royce to the reception at the Field Club of Greenwich.
The bride attended boarding school at Bishop’s College in Quebec, Canada, and graduated from St. Lawrence University, where she was the captain of her intercollegiate tennis and squash teams. She is an international sports marketing consultant.
The groom attended Colegio Anchieta in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University Candid Mendes in Rio de Janeiro. The former Brazilian and Pan American squash champion was introduced to his future bride by her sister Heidi, with whom he attended a sports management course at NYU. He is the CEO of G8 Media.
Following a honeymoon in Aruba, the newlyweds reside in New York City.
University of Pennsylvania graduates Kimberly Claire Santora and Donald Anthony McComas met while they were in college and reconnected while both were working in New York. D.A., as the groom is known, proposed to Kimberly in Reykjavik, Iceland, while visiting the Blue Lagoon.
The couple was married in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies, by the groom’s uncle, Father Philip Oriole, at the L’Eglise Notre Dame de L’Assomption. This was the first Roman Catholic ceremony for a nonresident ever held on the island. A reception followed at Eden Rock Hotel.
Kimberly, the daughter of Carol and Robert Santora of Greenwich, graduated from Greenwich Country Day, Greenwich High School, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and has an MBA from New York University. She
is a vice president in the Real Estate Investment Banking group at Lehman Brothers.
D.A., son of Marie and Murray McComas of Warren, Pennsylvania, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in international relations and an MBA from the Wharton School. He is an associate at Spencer Trask Ventures. The newlyweds live in New York City.
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