Devan Sipher is a writer of the Vows wed­ding col­umn in The New York Times and the author of the nov­el, The Wed­ding Beat. He has also writ­ten for oth­er pub­li­ca­tions, includ­ing The For­ward and The Huff­in­g­ton Post. He grad­u­at­ed from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan, received an M.F.A. from New York Uni­ver­si­ty, and he is a for­mer junior can­tor of Tem­ple Israel.