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Wendi Adelson and Dan Markel
Wendi Jill Adelson, the daughter of Donna Sue Adelson and Dr. Harvey J. Adelson of Coral Springs, Fla., is to be married this evening to Dan Eric Markel, the son of Ruth Markel and Phil Markel of Toronto. Rabbi Shaul Robinson is to officiate at Congregation B'nai Israel in Boca Raton, Fla., with Rabbi Mark W. Gross taking part in the ceremony.
The bride, 26, is keeping her name. She is a third-year law student at the University of Miami. She graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University and received a master's degree in international relations from Cambridge, where she was a Gates scholar.
Her father has a dental practice in Tamarac, Fla., for which the bride's mother is the patient-care coordinator.
The bridegroom, 33, teaches criminal law at Florida State University. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. He earned a master's in political theory at Cambridge before returning to Harvard, where he received his law degree.
His mother owns RNM Enterprises, business management consultants in Toronto. She is also the author of "Room at the Top: A Woman's Guide to Moving Up in Business" (Penguin, 1985). His father is the president of Smart Outsourcing Services, an apparel warehousing and distribution business, also in Toronto.
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