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Daisy Carrington

Countdown to Bliss

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

Margot Megan Slade

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

Countdown to Bliss

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

Countdown to Bliss

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

Countdown to Bliss

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

Sam Joseph Zarou II

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

Countdown to Bliss

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

Baby Names Get Weird: Milo, Shiloh … Thjis?

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

Countdown to Bliss

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

Countdown to Bliss

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

Julian Charles Planck

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

Countdown to Bliss

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

Countdown to Bliss

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

Countdown to Bliss

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

Bess Rimona Harris Adelson

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