Erica Violet Kaufman and Daniel Warner Asher were married on May 29 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pa. Rabbi Isabel de Koninck, who serves as the executive director and campus rabbi for Hillel at Drexel University, officiated.
The bride, 28, will take her husband’s name. She is operations manager and a consultant for Liberty Business Strategies, a human resources consulting firm in Philadelphia specializing in executive coaching and team development. She graduated from Wellesley College.
The bride is the daughter of Henry R. Kaufman, a media law attorney in New York city. Mr. Kaufman was vice president and general counsel of the Association of American Publishers and was a founder and general counsel of the Media Law Resource Center, both in New York city. The bride’s mother, Meryl L. Unger, is a corporate attorney in New York city, where she is a partner in the law firm of Katsky Korins LLP. The bride’s grandfather, Oliver A. Unger, was an Academy Award-winning motion picture producer. The bride’s great-grandmother, Violet Speed, was named as a Dame of Malta for her work relocating displaced Hungarian Jews.
The bridegroom, 29, is currently a law clerk for the Hon. Thomas L. Ambro, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In September, Mr. Asher will take a position as an associate in the litigation department at the law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in New York city. The groom graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was a Kent Scholar, and Harvard College, and he earned an Master of Philosophy degree at Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar.
He is the son of Steven E. Asher and Rebecca H. Warner of Newton. The bridegroom’s father is an international corporate and securities lawyer. The groom’s mother is a geriatric psychiatrist and is an instructor in psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. She recently wrote and published a book on gardening and landscape design titled The Sustainable-Enough Garden (2016). The groom is the fourth consecutive generation in his family to have been graduated from Columbia Law School.
The couple met each other online in January 2013 and corresponded online until their first date at the Hungarian Pastry Shop in New York city on Jan. 26, 2013, which also happened to be the bridegroom’s 26th birthday. They were engaged exactly two years later.
The bridegroom’s grandparents on both sides have summered on Martha’s Vineyard for more than 40 years: the Warners on Tisbury Great Pond in Chilmark and the Ashers on Chilmark Pond. His aunt, Kate Warner, lives in West Tisbury.
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