Rian Balfour and Russell Marcus
Rian Jensine Balfour and Brian Russell Marcus were married Saturday at Deer Creek Country Club in Deerfield Beach, Fla. Rabbi Loring J. Frank officiated, with the assistance of the Rev. Frank W. Fagan, a priest of the Free Catholic Church.
The bride, 27, is an associate in the tax department at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, the Manhattan law firm. She graduated from Columbia and received a law degree, cum laude, from Duke. She is a daughter of Sandra A. Sooklal-Balfour of Coconut Creek, Fla., and the late Leslie A. Balfour.
The bridegroom, 31, is a senior associate in the Manhattan office of Clifford Chance, the London law firm. He graduated magna cum laude from Florida State and received a law degree from Columbia. He is the son of Eve J. Marcus of Tamarac, Fla. and Mark Marcus of Maspeth, Queens.
The couple met on a plane from Florida to New York in January 2004, when Ms. Balfour, whose row was full, moved next to an otherwise empty one occupied by Mr. Marcus. When they learned during the conversation that ensued that each had grown up in Coconut Creek and were attending Columbia, they resolved to share a taxi back to campus. By the following January they had embarked on romance.
Talk about fate... this is more than coincidence!
Posted by: Gloryus | April 01, 2009 at 01:58 AM
You got that right Gloryus, this was Divine intervention. They actually make a terrific looking couple and will definitely have the means to live and do well. Congrats to them!
Posted by: Lorraine | April 05, 2009 at 10:18 AM