Sen. Cory Booker has married his fiancé Alexis Lewis in Washington, DC, lower than three months after saying their engagement in an Instagram submit.
Solely shut household have been current because the New Jersey Senator, 56, tied the knot on Saturday in an interfaith ceremony blessed by each a pastor and a rabbi — Lewis is Jewish and Booker Christian, based on the New York Occasions.
The venue’s location wasn’t disclosed for privateness causes.
On Monday, the pair legally wed on the US District Courtroom in Newark, the place Booker rose to prominence as mayor — with their dad and mom as witnesses.
The couple celebrated afterward with Italian pastries and a vegan chocolate chip cookie dough cake to suit Booker’s vegan eating regimen.
The pair have been launched in Might 2024 by a mutual good friend identified for matchmaking, the Occasions reported.
Ms Lewis, 38, who was residing in LA on the time, went on a blind date with Booker whereas visiting household in DC.
The date lasted greater than 5 hours and on the finish of it, Booker satisfied Lewis to push again her flight so he might take her out once more the next night time, based on the Occasions.
After an “much more magical” second date, through which the pair had dinner at a Newark tapas restaurant and went to the Broadway musical “Suffs,” they ended the night time with their first kiss exterior the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Coronary heart, Booker informed the Occasions.
The couple moved in collectively in April and fostered a canine, a shepherd combine named Cooke.
Booker proposed in Kauai, Hawaii, on Aug. 24, after a troupe of native musicians performed Lewis’ favourite music, “Dreamlover” by Mariah Carey.
Because the music ended, Lewis hugged the singers and informed them how she had all the time dreamed the music can be performed at her wedding ceremony.
“Effectively, honey, that is the music that’s enjoying at your proposal,” Booker stated, earlier than getting down on one knee, the Occasions reported.
Lewis gushed about discovering love with the second-term Democrat senator.
“My girlfriends and I say, ‘Change your flight, change your life,’ as a result of it’s precisely what occurred,” Lewis informed the Occasions.
“After so a few years by myself, I’m not solely certain I believed I might get married. However now, we’ve discovered one another at this stage of our lives, after epic private journeys. And that deserves celebration,” she added.
Booker, who has by no means married, was named as one in all City & Nation journal’s “Prime 40 Bachelors” in 2013.
Lewis, a DC native who has a bachelor’s diploma from NYU and an MBA from Cornell, beforehand labored within the workplace of former LA mayor, Eric Garcetti.
She is now a director of investments at a Los Angeles-based actual property funding agency, Brasa Capital Administration.
