Erika L. Francis is wed to David Francis Raniere
Thursday, December 07, 2000
Erika Lynne Francis, daughter of Roberta and Samuel Francis of Chatham, and David Francis Raniere, son of Roseann Raniere of Union and Joseph Raniere of Edison, were married on Saturday, June 10, 2000, at the Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass.
The Rev. Diana Doyle Clark, a close friend of the Francis family and rector of Saint John's Episcopal Church in Montclair, performed the 5 p.m. garden ceremony, which was followed by a reception and dinner.
The bride, in a white silk shantung gown with Venice lace appliques on the bodice and hemline, was accompanied down the aisle of rose petals by her parents. The honor attendants were Heather Campbell Picone of Exton, Pa., cousin of the bride; Anne Cohen of Denver, Colo., and Deborah Raniere of Atlanta, Ga., sister-in-law of the groom.
Joseph Raniere Jr. of Atlanta, brother of the groom, served as best man. The groomsmen were Michael Fraser of New York City, and Christopher Francis of Hoboken, brother of the bride.
Robert Williams of Lancaster, Pa., grandfather of the bride, offered a reflection on "Commitment," and Salvatore Palatucci, a close friend of the groom's family, gave remarks on "Love." Michael Fraser read a selection from Antoine de Saint-Exupery's "The Little Prince."
The bride, now Erika Francis-Raniere, is a 1987 graduate of Chatham High School. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., in 1991, and is completing her doctoral studies in clinical psychology at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., while working in an internship at Beth Israel-Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Mass.
The groom, a 1988 graduate of Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick in 1992. He earned a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Temple University in 1999 and holds post-doctoral fellowships at Cambridge Hospital and Two Brattle Center, Cambridge, Mass.
After a wedding trip to Hawaii, the couple is residing in Watertown, Mass.
