Lisa Loeb, the singer and songwriter, and Roey Hershkovitz, the music coordinator on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” were married Saturday evening at Brasserie 8 ½, a restaurant in New York. Rabbi Andy Bachman officiated.
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Ms. Loeb and Mr. Hershkovitz met around Thanksgiving in 2006. When she came in from Los Angeles, over brunch they discussed the possibility she might become the host of “5 of 1,” a television pilot Mr. Hershkovitz was pitching about how five restaurants prepare a particular dish.
By the end of their hourlong business meeting both concluded that because Ms. Loeb considers herself to be a “vegequarian” — which she defines as a vegetarian who eats fish, and, in her case, sometimes a bit of bacon — she might not be a match for the show’s broader culinary ambitions.
Nevertheless their get-together ended gracefully. “She curtsied,” he said. “I had been charmed and thought she was very cute and cool.”
Ms. Loeb soon realized, “I had a crush on my meeting,” she said, referring to Mr. Hershkovitz.
After a few follow-up text messages they agreed to meet the next time she was in New York.
That December they dined with friends on the Upper West Side, followed the next day by “a nondate” lunch date for two in Greenwich Village, where Ms. Loeb said they shared “a Fluffernutter” and also a concoction of peanut butter, banana, honey and bacon called “an Elvis.”
They began spending a lot of time together. But the next spring, both agreed that their timing was off. “Over a sad shrimp quesadilla, we realized that we really needed to break up,” Ms. Loeb said. “We were in different places in our lives.”
The breakup lasted all of six weeks.
“Little by little our timelines actually came together” she said. “And by the time we went to a friend’s wedding in Washington D.C., in October 2008 we began talking about our own wedding.”
Mr. Hershkovitz proposed the next month in front of a fireplace at the Maritime Hotel.
Ms. Loeb recalled the moment: “Billecart rosé salmon pink champagne; miniature Star Wars figurines that looked like us in last year’s Halloween costumes; and he brought a boom box that played our song ‘All Night Long’ by Lionel Ritchie.” She added, “We celebrated with dinner at Scarpetta, over black pasta and every dessert, and then raced off to see AC/DC at Madison Square Garden.”
The couple exchanged vows in a Jewish ceremony in front of 275 guests at a restaurant in New York City, the singer-songwriter`s rep, Janet Billig Rich, tells PEOPLE. Loeb, 40, wore a strapless pink wedding gown by Amsale Blue Label and the groom wore a suit by Paul Smith.
Loeb married Roey Hershkovitz, the Music Production Supervisor for Late Night with Conan O'Brien, now Conan, on January 31, 2009
Loeb has given birth to two children with Hershkovitz, a daughter (Lyla Rose Loeb Hershkovitz, born November 29, 2009), and a son (Emet Kuli Loeb Hershkovitz, born June 15, 2012).