Talia Marcus and Charles Blaettler married in Long Island City after meeting on a campaign

Talia Phoebe Marcus and Charles Robert Blaettler were married on Dec. 31, 2025, at the Ravel Hotel in Long Island City before 175 guests. Rabbi Madeleine Fortney, of the Hebrew Union College, officiated the ceremony. The couple met while working on Mondaire Jones’s congressional campaign in October 2019.

Mr. Blaettler was the campaign manager and Ms. Marcus completed a phone interview for the press secretary role; the two developed a close professional relationship that grew into a private romance during the campaign. Their first date took place in February 2020. The pandemic limited how often they could see each other; in June Mr.

Blaettler left the campaign (Mr. Jones won the Democratic primary that month), and Ms. Marcus moved to Washington in December to work in the congressional office after Mr. Jones won the general election. They dated long distance for a year before Mr. Blaettler joined her in Washington; they lived there together for three years and later moved to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

The couple became engaged in August 2024 in Lisbon, when Mr. Blaettler proposed on a beach and took 30 seconds to kneel. After the proposal, preparations began for his conversion to Judaism; Ms. Marcus grew up Modern Orthodox and Mr. Blaettler, who had grown up in a Catholic household, knew he would convert to marry her.

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