Rebecca Martin Pantaleo and Shawn Partain were married in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on March 29. The bride’s college friend, Melanie Zachariades, was maid of honor. The groom’s brother, Matthew Partain, served as best man.
The bride graduated from High School North in 2002 and Muhlenberg College in 2006, with a double bachelor’s degree in philosophy and psychology. She worked for the Riverdale Mental Health Agency in New York City for several years before leaving NYC. She is the daughter of Lori Pantaleo of West Windsor and Pablo Martin of Madrid, Spain,
The groom graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor’s degree in marketing. Partain owns London Bridge Performance Media, a marketing and lead generation company. He is the son of Susan and Gary Partain of The Villages, Florida.
After traveling throughout the United States in their RV for more than a year, and spending several months in Madrid prior to the wedding, the couple will now make their home in San Diego, California.
Peter Shaughnessy and Tina Kurzawa were married in an outdoor ceremony on June 28.
Raised in Spotswood, the groom graduated from Rutgers University. After working in the theater community for several years, he was the municipal news editor for The News for a couple of years. He taught at Irving High School from 2007 to 2011 and has been teaching English at Grover Middle School in West Windsor since 2012. He is the son of John and Lauren Shaughnessy.
The bride was raised in Colonia and graduated from Rutgers University. The publisher for IEEE in Piscataway, she is the daughter of Lynda and Michael Kurzawa.
The couple lives in Jamesburg.
Ariana Markowitz and Julio Quinteros were married March 1 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
Markowitz, a 2003 graduate of High School South, graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, with a degree in political science and Middle East studies. She is a consultant for Innovations for Successful Societies, a research center at Princeton University that does case studies on institutional reform in the developing world. She also does English-Spanish translation and runs a small food business from her home in San Salvador.
She is the daughter of Elane Gutterman and Jeff Markowitz of West Windsor. She is co-author of “Pigskin Crossroads: The Epidemiology of Concussions in the National Football League, 2010-2012,” with her father (The News, September 13, 2013).
Quinteros graduated from Universidad Centroamericana Jose Simeon Canas in San Salvador with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering and has an MBA from National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan. He is a demand controller for Industrias La Constancia, the largest brewery in El Salvador. He is the son of Julio Quinteros and Josefina de Quinteros of San Salvador, El Salvador.
