In August 2023, after graduation, Ms. Barash moved into Mr. Schwartz’s studio, and that fall they got a bigger place in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
Until December 2024, Ms. Barash, 35, was the chief of staff to the chief operating officer at New York City Housing Authority, and is to begin working on Feb. 10 as a senior director of strategy and program management at Enterprise Community Partners, an affordable housing nonprofit organization in Manhattan.
In March, Mr. Schwartz got down on one knee at Shabbat dinner after recreating a chicken scarpariello dish, which they had at La Palina in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, on Valentine’s Day (a major feat for someone who’s usually on dishwashing duty).
On Jan. 17, Rabbi Matt Green, the associate rabbi at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn, officiated at a brief legal ceremony in the Governor’s Room at City Hall.
“It felt great to go back to the place we first met, and fell in love,” she said.
Two days later, on a blustery snowy day, Rabbi Green led another ceremony, before 200 guests, at 99 Scott, an events space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, under a huppah, woven by the groom’s college friend, Lauren Williams, a weaver, in the colors of a winter sunset.
As the couple walked down the aisle, friends, including the musicians R.O. Shapiro and the bride’s bandmate, performed Paul McCartney & Wings’ “Let Me Roll It,” featured in “Licorice Pizza.”
Guests later danced to two versions of the hora — Chubby Checker’s Hava Nagila and one with a surf rock vibe by Meshugga Beach Party.
