Ellen Marie Zajac, a daughter of Ellen Zajac and John Zajac of Berlin, Md., was married last night at the Round Hill Hotel and Villas near Montego Bay, Jamaica, to Edward Frank Schwarzman, the son of Ellen Katz and Stephen A. Schwarzman, both of New York. The Rev. Arthur Becker, a Roman Catholic priest and an uncle of the bride, and Michael Matalon, the president of the Shaare Shalom Synagogue in Kingston, Jamaica, led the ceremony; Stephen Henriques, a marriage officer in Jamaica, served as the legal officiant.
The bride and bridegroom are associates at law firms in New York. She is in the structured finance practice at Thacher Proffitt & Wood, where she works in residential mortgage-backed securities, and he is at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he works in corporate restructuring and real estate law. They met at Duke, from which they received their law degrees, he cum laude.
Mrs. Schwarzman, 26, graduated from Emory.
Her father is the founder and the president of ZSeeds, an agricultural consulting and marketing firm in Berlin. From 1985 to 1987, he was the president of the American Seed Trade Association.
Mr. Schwarzman, 28, who is known as Teddy, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.
His mother is a trustee of Mount Sinai Medical Center, Lincoln Center Theater and Northwestern University and is the chairwoman of the board of the Phoenix Art Museum. His father is the chairman, the chief executive and a founder of the Blackstone Group, the investment and advisory firm in New York. He is also the chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, and a trustee of the Frick Collection, the New York Public Library, the New York City Ballet and the Asia Society. The bridegroom is also the stepson of Christine Hearst Schwarzman and of Howard C. Katz.
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