WEDDINGS
Sam and Evan Sameroff Embark on the Adventure of a Lifetime “We were looking for adventure and a new experience,” say Samantha (Udolf) and Evan Sameroff, who wed on July 13, 2019 in Sam’s hometown of West Hartford.
It sits regally on the list of the Seven Wonders of Africa. The endless plains of the Serengeti stretch out for 12,000 square miles from north Tanzania to southwestern Kenya. A vast ecosystem rife with blue wildebeests, gazelles, zebras, buffalos, lions and spotted hyenas. A landscape dotted with rich grasslands and trees, granite vol-canic rock — and even an active volcano.
There are no words, they say. “The safari was very romantic and serene. It was a unique and humbling experience to be in the middle of the Serengeti, feeling one with nature. We chose East Africa in particular because of the wildebeest migration. We were fortunate to see many river crossings of thousands of wildebeest — an experience that no picture or video does justice.”
It is the embodiment of adventure; the very essence of new experiences. And that, say Samantha and Evan Sameroff, is what made it the perfect honeymoon. One adventure — an African safari — from which to begin the ultimate adventure — marriage.
Of course, there’s ‘romantic and serene’… and then there’s “romantic serene.” And so, the newly minted Sameroffs followed
up their Serengeti safari with some rest and relaxation at a peaceful and alluring beach resort in Zanzibar. One might say that the seed that led to the Sameroffs’ African safari was planted some two years earlier, when Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi of the Chabad Jewish center at Harvard University introduced the two at a party celebrating the festive Jewish holiday of Purim. Sam was then a senior at Harvard and Evan was finishing up his last year at Harvard Business School. Two years later, Sam, the daughter of Danielle and Robert Udolf of West Hartford, and Evan, the son of Ellen Rinaldi and Jeffrey Sameroff of Wayne, Pennsylvania, and the late Marilyn Sameroff, found themselves standing under a chupah (a
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