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Jewish Bride Spotlight: Ines Frigerio

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Ines is a member of our Brides Club for Jewish and Jew-ish brides, and we’re so excited for her wedding plans!

Inside Brides Club, I personally help you to minimize wedstress and overwhelm, and maximize your wedding budget. Oh – and every Brides Club member gets a free smash glass pouch (designed by me) for under the chuppah posted out to them too. Mazal Tov!

Come and join Brides Club too – for advice, discounts, community, sisterhood… and your sanity!

ABOUT INES

Where are you from? São Paulo – Brazil
What do you do for a living? I’m a chef
How did you meet your partner? At a Pideon HaBen in London; at a mutual friend’s home
Where did you go on your first date? Drinks at a local pub (not romantic at all!!! I actually thought we were just catching up as friends as we knew eachother before we got together! I had no idea it was a date; until he kissed me goodbye)
When did you first know you were in love? Our first kiss during our first date! I knew he was my besheret
How long had you been dating when you became engaged? A little over 2 years
What date are you getting married and where?  29/8/22

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Jewish Bride Spotlight: Karyn Moran

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Karyn is a member of our Brides Club for Jewish and Jew-ish brides, and we’re so excited for her wedding plans!

Inside Brides Club, I personally help you to minimize wedstress and overwhelm, and maximize your wedding budget. Oh – and every Brides Club member gets a free smash glass pouch (designed by me) for under the chuppah posted out to them too. Mazal Tov!

Come and join Brides Club too – for advice, discounts, community, sisterhood… and your sanity!

ABOUT KARYN

Where are you from? Goshen, New York
What do you do for a living? Retired nurse/homemaker
How did you meet your partner? He noticed me on a bus to Albany, New York and jumped into my taxi at the depot. By the time we got to campus, he’d charmed my number out of me.
Where did you go on your first date? I think we just walked around the campus, talking for a few hours.
When did you first know you were in love? 23 days later. About 2 weeks after HE said it first!
How long had you been dating when you became engaged?35 years, off and on. We’ve gone our separate ways, but always seem to come back together like iron to a magnet. It seems meant to be.
What date are you getting married and where?  November 11, 2022 at The Thayer Hotel at West Point, New York.

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Jewish Bride Spotlight: Emily Boaz

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Emily is a member of our Brides Club for Jewish and Jew-ish brides, and we’re so excited for her wedding plans!

Inside Brides Club, I personally help you to minimize wedstress and overwhelm, and maximize your wedding budget. Oh – and every Brides Club member gets a free smash glass pouch (designed by me) for under the chuppah posted out to them too. Mazal Tov!

Come and join Brides Club too – for advice, discounts, community, sisterhood… and your sanity!

ABOUT EMILY

Where are you from? Greenville, SC
What do you do for a living? Government Contractor
How did you meet your partner? We met through the dating app Bumble. I had moved to Charleston, SC two weeks before.
Where did you go on your first date? We met up at a little local bar called Voodoo in the Avondale neighborhood in Charleston, SC.
When did you first know you were in love? Harrison has a loud and deep laugh, when we first met I remember thinking that’s quite the laugh but after about two months I realized it had become my favorite sound.
How long had you been dating when you became engaged?A little over three years
What date are you getting married and where?  04/03/2022 at Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC
 

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Jewish Bride Spotlight: Eve Stern

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Eve Stern is a member of our Brides Club for Jewish and Jew-ish brides, and we’re so excited for her wedding plans!

Inside Brides Club, I personally help you to minimize wedstress and overwhelm, and maximize your wedding budget. Oh – and every Brides Club member gets a free smash glass pouch (designed by me) for under the chuppah posted out to them too. Mazal Tov!

Come and join Brides Club too – for advice, discounts, community, sisterhood… and your sanity!

ABOUT EVE

Where are you from? Forest Hills, NY
What do you do for a living? Content Creator and Digital Consultant
How did you meet your partner? College – SUNY New Paltz
Where did you go on your first date? Our very first day was at Bacchus – a restaurant/pool hall in New Paltz, NY.
When did you first know you were in love? I knew I would marry Mike the first time we hung out and I knew I was love with him, years later after dating on and off.
How long had you been dating when you became engaged?  3 years (“officially”)
What date did you get married and where?  10/07/21 – Crest Hollow Country Club (Woodbury, NY)
 
   

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Jewish Bride Spotlight: Eliza Gellis

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Eliza Gellis is a member of our Brides Club for Jewish and Jew-ish brides, and we’re so excited for her wedding plans!

Inside Brides Club, I personally help you to minimize wedstress and overwhelm, and maximize your wedding budget. Oh – and every Brides Club member gets a free smash glass pouch (designed by me) for under the chuppah posted out to them too. Mazal Tov!

Come and join Brides Club too – for advice, discounts, community, sisterhood… and your sanity!

ABOUT ELIZA

Where are you from? Flushing, MI (originally) / currently pursuing a PhD at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN
What do you do for a living? PhD Candidate/Graduate Assistant
How did you meet your partner? At a bar. She was on a date with someone else.
Where did you go on your first date? Jean drove up from where she was living at the time, about an hour and a half away, and we got food and then drinks afterwards. She was meant to come for dinner and ended up staying the whole weekend!
When did you first know you were in love? It sounds cheesy, but…our first date! I never believed in “love at first sight” or “just knowing when you meet the one”…until Jean. Plus, my notoriously shy cat took to her immediately. If that’s not a sign, I don’t know what is!
How long had you been dating when you became engaged? A little under a year and a half.
What date are you getting married and where?  Sunday, June 12, 2022 at the Fowler House Mansion in Lafayette, IN.
 

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