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ENGAGEMENT: Marchese — Forrest

Giovanni and Silvana Marchese of Totowa have announced the engagement of their daughter, Stephanie, to Richard Brant Forrest, son of Wayne J. and June Forrest of Hillsborough.
The bride-to-be graduated from Passaic Valley Regional High School in 2006 and received a bachelor of arts cum laude in political science from the University of Massachusetts in 2010. She will receive her master’s degree in October 2012 from Rutgers University. She currently works for the New Jersey Hospital Association in Princeton.
The groom-to-be is a 2006 graduate of Hillsborough High School and received his bachelor of science in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 2010. He is currently in his third year at Seton Hall University School of Law and will receive his Juris Doctor next May. He is employed as a summer associate for McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP in Morristown.
The couple met in October of 2006. After five years of dating, Mr. Forrest proposed to Ms. Marchese the day before New Year’s Eve inside the JCrew at Palmer Square, the place where they first met. They will be married on Aug. 30, 2013 in Summit.