Sen. Cory Booker has married his fiancé Alexis Lewis in Washington, DC, less than three months after announcing their engagement in an Instagram post.
Only close family were present as the New Jersey Senator, 56, tied the knot on Saturday in an interfaith ceremony blessed by both a pastor and a rabbi — Lewis is Jewish and Booker Christian, according to the New York Times.
The venue’s location wasn’t disclosed for privacy reasons.
On Monday, the pair legally wed at the US District Court in Newark, where Booker rose to prominence as mayor — with their parents as witnesses.
The couple celebrated afterward with Italian pastries and a vegan chocolate chip cookie dough cake to fit Booker’s vegan diet.
The pair were introduced in May 2024 by a mutual friend known for matchmaking, the Times reported.
Ms Lewis, 38, who was living in LA at the time, went on a blind date with Booker while visiting family in DC.
The date lasted more than five hours and at the end of it, Booker convinced Lewis to push back her flight so he could take her out again the following night, according to the Times.
After an “even more magical” second date, in which the pair had dinner at a Newark tapas restaurant and went to the Broadway musical “Suffs,” they ended the night with their first kiss outside the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Booker told the Times.
The couple moved in together in April and fostered a dog, a shepherd mix named Cooke.
Booker proposed in Kauai, Hawaii, on Aug. 24, after a troupe of native musicians played Lewis’ favorite song, “Dreamlover” by Mariah Carey.
As the song ended, Lewis hugged the singers and told them how she had always dreamed the song would be played at her wedding.
“Well, honey, this is the song that’s playing at your proposal,” Booker said, before getting down on one knee, the Times reported.
Lewis gushed about finding love with the second-term Democrat senator.
“My girlfriends and I say, ‘Change your flight, change your life,’ because it’s exactly what happened,” Lewis told the Times.
“After so many years on my own, I’m not entirely sure I believed I would get married. But now, we’ve found each other at this stage of our lives, after epic personal journeys. And that deserves celebration,” she added.
Booker, who has never married, was named as one of Town & Country magazine’s “Top 40 Bachelors” in 2013.
Lewis, a DC native who has a bachelor’s degree from NYU and an MBA from Cornell, previously worked in the office of former LA mayor, Eric Garcetti.
She is now a director of investments at a Los Angeles-based real estate investment firm, Brasa Capital Management.
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