Melisande & Charles Rosentel

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: Sep 03, 2010 12:00 am

Melisande & Charles Rosentel

Melisande CariÃ±o Loeppert and Charles Robert Rosentel were married on August 7, 2010. The ceremony took place at the Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza in Santa Fe, N.M., with a reception immediately following at the same location.

The service was performed by the Reverend Wayne MacPherson of Evanston, Ill., a family friend and minister in the United Church of Christ. A mutual love of poetry led the couple to include works by ee cummings, Walt Whitman, and Pablo Nurada in their service. A nondenominational ceremony, it also included Christian prayers to celebrate Meliâs background, and a Kiddush prayer, as well as a 19th Century family heirloom, to honor Charlesâs Jewish heritage.

The bride wore a cream silk chiffon dress with orchids in her hair and carried a bouquet of flame calla lilies, while the bridesmaids and groomsmen wore coordinating flame calla lily corsages and boutonniÃ¨res that accented their classic black attire.

The bride is the daughter of Alice and Ted Loeppert of Evanston. Her bridesman was Saad Kahn of Champaign, Ill., and her bridesmaids were sister of the groom Amy Rosentel of Sandy Hook, Maggie Coyne of Evanston, and Soni Khatri of Brooklyn, N.Y.

The groom, whose parents are Judy and Steve Rosentel of Sandy Hook, asked his friend Julie Keller of Boston to serve as groomswoman. Grooms were Andrew Rote of Pleasantville, N.Y., Max Bulbin of Chicago, and Jeff Stone, also of Chicago. Ushers were Mark Huot of Philadelphia and Edwin Lee of Chicago.

Additional attendants included Riley Perez-Pranian of Skokie, Ill., as the flower girl, and nephew of the bride Griffin Loeppert-Zwirner of Evanston and Jake Perez-Pranian of Skokie as ring bearers.

The bride is a graduate of Northwestern University. She has been selected to be a teaching assistant at the University of Illinois School of Law, where she is also a student.

The groom is a graduate of Northwestern University and also of The Academy for Urban School Leadership. He was presented with a Leader of Excellence Award by the academy. He is a teacher of eighth grade social studies at Franklin Middle School in Champaign.

The Rosentels, who live in Champaign, plan to celebrate their marriage with a trip to Argentina in December.

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