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Jennifer Lynn Panaro met Michael Rand Anderson when both were graduate students at Fairfield University. One evening while out with mutual friends, Michael put mini frozen hotdogs into her purse as a joke. “He made his mark,” the bride recalls.
Ever the joker, Michael proposed by sending Jennifer on a birthday scavenger hunt, hiding clues all over town, including at their favorite restaurant and at a park bench, where he also placed a dozen roses. Just when she thought the hunt was over, he brought her to another bench near the beach, where he sat down and started to read a newspaper. Finally he asked her come look at the ocean with him and then surprised her with a serious proposal. At their engagement party, the couple served mini hotdogs to friends and family, who knew the joke.
The Reverend Thomas J. Regan, a former professor at Fairfield University, married the couple in a ceremony held at St. Catherine of Siena in Greenwich, where the bride’s great-grandmother, grandmother and mother were also married. A reception followed at Riverside Yacht Club.
The bride graduated from New Canaan High School and received her master’s degree in business administration in finance from Fairfield University. She is a director of strategic marketing at Pitney Bowes in Stamford. She began her career at Greenwich Magazine in 1997 as production manager. Her parents are Joseph and Janet Panaro of Greenwich, formerly of New Canaan.
The groom also holds a master’s degree in business administration in finance from Fairfield University and is a regional vice president at Greenfield Online in Wilton. His parents are Mary Rand Anderson of Scituate, Massachusetts, and Robert Anderson of San Diego, California.
The couple lives in Fairfield.
Amanda Wallace Woods and Eric Edmund Wasserstrom were introduced at the Starving Artists Ball in New York City in 2003. The two had been set up on a double date with Eric’s cousin and a colleague of Amanda’s. Conveniently, the cousin never arrived and the colleague feigned illness and left early. Amanda and Eric acknowledged the pair’s significant role in starting their relationship in their wedding program: “We will always be grateful to Sallie Sanders for making the introduction and then going home early, and to Lucas Peltonen for not showing up in the first place.”
The couple was married at the Central Park Boathouse in New York City by John Javens, another cousin of the groom, who became a pastor of Rose Ministries especially for the event. The bride wore her grandmother’s Belgian lace veil from the 1920s as something old.
After attending Greens Farms Academy, the bride graduated from St. Andrew’s School in Middletown, Delaware. She received a bachelor’s degree in history from Trinity College and a master’s degree in fine arts from the Yale School of Drama. She is a theater scout for Paramount Pictures. Her parents are Pamela and Allan Scott Woods of Rowayton.
The groom is a summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Tufts University with a bachelor’s degree in history. He is an executive director at UBS Equity Research in New York City and a board member of the New Group, a theater company. His parents are Janice Poplack and Dr. Robert Wasserstrom, both of Houston, Texas.
Although they spent their childhoods in New Canaan and attended high school together, Cameron Browning Zara and Christopher Brian Buzzeo didn’t really get to know each other until a chance meeting after college in May 2004. The two started talking and knew that they would spend their lives together.
The bride is the daughter of Mary and Thomas D. Zara of New Canaan. She graduated from Bucknell University with a bachelor’s degree in political science. She is the author of a children’s book, Defending Curvy Cottage.
The son of Janice and Michael V. Buzzeo of New Canaan, the groom played lacrosse at Princeton, where he was captain of the 2001 NCAA national championship team and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history. He is an institutional equity research sales director for FTN Midwest Securities in New York City, where the couple lives.
The couple was married by the Reverend Harold E. “Skip” Masback III at the Congregational Church and reception followed at the Country Club of New Canaan.
In a city of more than 8 million residents like the Big Apple, what are the chances of meeting your true love while apartment hunting? But Kyle Austin Stass met James J. Rattigan Jr. while she was looking for an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. They didn’t start dating, however, until they ran into each other weeks later at a Super Bowl party. Their first date was onValentine’s Day, a good sign for what became a five-year relationship that led to a romantic all-day proposal beginning with lunch at the Whitney Museum followed by a stop at the Met, flowers and a proposal, and a surprise dinner where both sets of parents were waiting to congratulate the couple.
The groom’s uncle, the Reverend Eugene Tully, married the couple at the Church of Our Savior in New York City. A reception followed at the Metropolitan Club, attended by family and friends. The bride continued a family tradition started by her grandmother, fastening a heart-shaped diamond pin onto her bouquet. Her mother and a cousin also carried the pin during their wedding ceremonies.
The bride is assistant director of admissions at the Birch Wathen Lenox School in New York City, where the couple lives. She is a graduate of New Canaan High School and the University of Delaware, with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. Her parents are Gary and Nancy Stass of New Canaan.
The groom works in the fixed-income area at Lehman Brothers. He is a graduate of Villanova with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, concentrating in finance. His parents are James and Lorraine Rattigan of Garnett Valley, Pennsylvania.
Robert Patrick Stelben grew up playing sports. While a student at Darien High School, he played football, basketball and baseball. At Siena College he spent two years on the baseball team before joining the golf team during his junior year. He has continued to focus on golf, winning several amateur tournaments, including the 2006 Courville Invitational at Shorehaven Country Club and the club championship at the Country Club of Darien six years running. So it wasn’t a surprise to his sweetheart, Jillian Redfern, that he proposed to her on the ninth hole of the Cassique Golf Club in Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
The couple was married by the Reverend Leon Wagner at Holy Spirit Catholic Church on John’s Island. A reception followed at the Kiawah Island Club at the River Course.
The bride, known as Jill, is a graduate of Ithaca College with a bachelor’s degree in cardiac rehabilitation and exercise physiology. A competitive runner, she has completed seven marathons, earning a personal best time of 3:13 in the Boston Marathon and finishing second in the Darien Road Race in 2006. She is the owner of inSHAPE, a fitness consulting and personal training company serving New York City and Fairfield County. Her parents are Peter and Mary Ellen Redfern of Kiawah Island and Sparta, New Jersey.
The groom received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Siena College. He is a director of marketing for CBIS, an institutional investment management firm in New York City. His parents are Robert and Mary Anne Stelben of Darien.
After a honeymoon trip to Kaui and Maui, the newlyweds returned home to Darien.
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