Sept. 27, 2015
Alyssa Bennett Rosenberg and Matthew Anthony Gertz were married Saturday in Washington. Christopher Ashley, a friend of the couple who received temporary officiant status from the Marriage Bureau of the District of Columbia, officiated at the Josephine Butler Parks Center, a historic house.
The bride, 30, who will continue to use her name, works in Washington as a columnist for The Washington Post, where she writes Act Four, a culture and politics column. She graduated cum laude from Yale.
She is a daughter of Susan J. Bennett and John S. Rosenberg of Lexington, Mass. The bride’s father is the editor of Harvard Magazine in Cambridge, Mass. Her mother is the executive director of the Lexington Historical Society, a nonprofit organization in Lexington that works to preserve buildings from the Revolutionary War.
The groom, 31, is the research director for Media Matters for America, a media monitoring and watchdog organization in Washington, where he oversees researchers who monitor, analyze and correct misinformation in the news media. He graduated cum laude from Columbia.
He is the son of Evelyn Pellicane and William L. Gertz of Fairfield, Conn. The groom’s father works in Stamford, Conn., as the president and the chief executive of the American Institute for Foreign Study, which runs educational exchange programs between European and American high school students. His mother is a classical guitarist who teaches at the Westport School of Music in Westport, Conn.
The couple met in 2012 when the groom was invited by a mutual friend to a dinner party that the bride was hosting in Washington.
OMG. I could not have written this. It would not be believable. It is simply too full of stereotypes. From beginning to end.