WEDDINGS
A MY S TA H U L A K ( N O O R A A N D RYA N ) ; LU C Y B RO W N A R M S T RO N G ( F R A N C E S C A A N D C H A R LE S )
ENGAGEMENTS
Noora Raj & Ryan Brown
Hilary Jordan & Dack Patriarca
Francesca Fay & Charles Darling
Noora Raj and Ryan Brown will be married on July 2, 2016, at Il Riccio in Capri, Italy. At the wedding, Nisha Mannath and Olga Viner will serve as maids of honor and Kevin Brown will serve as best man. The bride (a graduate of the University of California, San Diego from Palo Alto, California) and the groom (a graduate of California Polytechnic State University from Los Angeles, California) met in college through mutual friends. However, they didn’t date until after college, when they bumped into each other on the West Coast. Ryan proposed to Noora on the morning of Christmas Eve at The Getty in Los Angeles, California— the location of their first date. “This place brought us together four years ago,” said Ryan, presenting a ring on one knee, “I hope this brings us together for the rest of our lives.” Family and friends joined the celebration at brunch at The St. Regis Monarch Beach. The couple lives in the West Village, where they’re renovating their home on Hudson Street.
Hilary Jordan and Dack Patriarca will be married within the year at a destination that will ask the guests to travel—which makes sense, given the fact that the bride and groom are pilots. “We want to give our close friends and immediate family a great adventure,” says Hilary. The couple met in 2007 in Providence, Rhode Island, and were set up on a date to go flying by the groom’s father, the late Dirk Patriarca. Hilary (a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design from Concord, North Carolina) and Dack (a graduate of the Wentworth Institute of Technology from Providence, Rhode Island) endeavor to live a busy, unique, and well-traveled life while keeping happiness as their core, striving for self-improvement, and contributing to their community. They love their little black Schnauzer named Nero and enjoy art, design, and contemporary and modern architecture. They couple became engaged while piloting a helicopter from Rhode Island to Florida.
Francesca Finn Fay and Charles Melvin Darling V will be married in September 2015 at the Burlingame Country Club in Hillsborough, California. The wedding will be “bohemian chic,” set beneath the redwood trees and the sparkle of stringed lights. For the occasion, the couple has asked Alexandra Fay Baker to serve as matron of honor and Christopher Brogan Darling and Ainar James Dalton Aijala III to serve as best men. The bride (a graduate of Unversity of Colorado, Boulder from San Francisco, California) and the groom (a graduate of Columbia University from Houston, Texas, and Washington, D.C.) met at a philanthropic event in New York City, when they lived on the East Coast. Charles proposed to Francesca at their home in San Francisco, California, with the help of their Jack Russell, Lola. To celebrate, their friends joined them for brunch at the famous Balboa Café. Francesca is a recruiter for Alain J. Blair and Charles is the C.E.O. of West Avenue Group. u
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