Sen. Cory Booker marries fiancé Alexis Lewis in private Washington ceremony

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., introduced Saturday that he married his fiancée Alexis Lewis and shared pictures of himself and his newlywed spouse on social media.

Booker and Lewis wed in a non-public ceremony in Washington, D.C., lower than three months after saying their engagement on Instagram.

On Sunday, Booker posted that they have been “overflowing with gratitude,” writing, “We stated ‘sure’ in two locations that formed us — Cory’s beloved Newark and Alexis’ hometown of Washington, DC — first within the courthouse after which with our households.” Hearts full and so grateful.’

The couple married in an interfaith ceremony – Booker is Christian and Lewis is Jewish – at an undisclosed location. The New York Times reported. The couple was legally married Monday on the federal courthouse in Newark, with solely their dad and mom current.

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Senator Cory Booker and Alexis Lewis attend the New Jersey Corridor Of Fame Induction Ceremony at American Dream on November 21, 2025 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. (Bobby Financial institution/Getty Pictures)

The couple advised the Occasions they met in Could 2024 by way of a mutual good friend identified for matchmaking. Their blind date in Washington lasted greater than 5 hours. When Booker requested for a second date the following night, Lewis stated she had a flight to catch for a enterprise journey to Newark. Booker satisfied her to postpone her flight so they may meet once more in Newark, the place he was additionally going.

Senator Cory Booker on Could 28, 2025 in Los Angeles. (PG/Bauer-Griffin/GC photographs)

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Booker later described that second date as “much more magical,” saying they ate at a tapas restaurant earlier than he confirmed her locations within the metropolis that formed his life. The evening ended with their first kiss outdoors the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Coronary heart.

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Lewis is an funding director at Brasa Capital Administration, a Los Angeles-based actual property funding agency, and beforehand labored for former Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. She has a bachelor’s diploma from NYU and an MBA from Cornell.

Democratic Senator Cory Booker will headline an occasion on the New Hampshire Institute of Politics in Manchester on November 14, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox Information)

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“My girlfriends and I say, ‘Change your flight, change your life,’ as a result of that is precisely what occurred,” Lewis advised the newspaper. “After so a few years of being alone, I am not solely positive I believed I might get married. However now we’ve got discovered one another at this stage of our lives, after epic private journeys. And that deserves to be celebrated.”