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Love fades, but the Vows section never will.

Is This A Real New York Times Wedding Announcement?

Yotan Haber, a composer, certainly was impressed with future wife Anna Schuleit on their second date.

Yup!!!!

"'She had Shostakovich playing on her stereo. I mean, really, how many girls listen to Shostakovich on a Friday night?' he said."

[Carol Anne Riddell and John Partilla](http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/fashion/weddings/19vows.html?_r=0) met in a pre-kindergarten classroom. They both had children attending the same school. They also both had spouses. The rest of their story is...a roller coaster.

Yup!

"Part 'Brady Bunch' and part 'The Scarlet Letter,' their story has played out as fodder for neighborhood gossip. But from their perspective, the drama was as unlikely as it was unstoppable."

There's never been a study on the number of vegans included in the Vows section, but we'd guess the number is in the thousands.

Nope!

"The bridegroom had never eaten a hamburger, a fact he delightedly recounted on their first date in between bites of flash-fried seitan and kohlrabi."

Reminder: being good looking is your best safeguard against having bad hair days. [Erika Halweil, wife of Corey De Rosa,](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/fashion/weddings/found-a-soul-mate.html) knows. Get on it!

"She rarely gets upset over things like parking tickets or bad-hair days. (Naturally pretty, she probably doesn’t have many.)"

Crafting decoy ducks does sound like a clutch activity, though.

"Having spent summers crafting decoy ducks at her parents' second home near Havre de Grace, Maryland, she immediately accepted his offer."

Without Facebook, no one would even know who is married and who is single.

"Neither the bride nor the bridegroom has ever been on Facebook."

This metaphor is a wedding announcement _waiting_ to happen, though.

"Instead of wedding cake, the couple served traditional Greek loukoumades, which they prepared by hand during the reception. 'Kneading dough into a delectable dessert felt appropriate for how we turned a friendship into a romance,' the bridegroom said."

You have [Nathaniel Peters, a descendant of the Von Trapp family](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/fashion/weddings/nathaniel-peters-barbara-jane-sloan-wedding-sound-of-music.html), to thank for that portmanteau. He coined it for his wife, Jane Sloan, who married him in spite (or because?) of it.

"When she visited his house, she generally arrived with an armful of baguettes and pastries, leftovers from the bakery where she worked. 'I started referring to her as our "friend with breadifits,"' he said."

Don't let anyone tell you that asking your new boss about dating prospects after you accept a job is futile. It worked for [human exclamation point Hannah Eddy](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/fashion/weddings/hannah-eddy-rodney-andrews-marriage.html).

"Before she started, she asked her new boss, Christine Riordan, then the provost of the university, if a boyfriend came with the job."

We're not saying this \*hasn't\* happened, but it's definitely never been printed in the Vows section.

"Their first meeting was both unusual and salubrious. The bride spotted Mr. Kitzmiller through a gap between her lithe thighs during a particularly strenuous downward dog at Yogaworks on Third Avenue."

"Swimming in cold water." Hmmm, should someone tell [Sage Mehta and Michael Robinson](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/fashion/weddings/sage-mehta-and-michael-robinson-weddings.html?pagewanted=all) about the end of _Titanic_?

"Both are writers and care deeply about words as well as opera, cooking, stick-shift cars, modern design and swimming in cold water."

[Letty Brown, a botanist, and Jan Novak, a soil scientist](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/24/fashion/weddings/letty-brown-and-jan-novak-vows.html?pagewanted=all&ref=weddingsandengagements), really, really, really like nature, ok?

"After the ceremony, the couple walked to a meadow and planted a coast live oak sapling that symbolized their devotion to nature, in both their lives and their careers. At the reception, the bridegroom reinvented himself yet again, as a singer."

T-minus two years until the Vows section pulls back the veil on the "new trend" of women proposing.

"In a turn of events that surprised both sets of parents, the bride proposed marriage. 'I knew it might ruffle their feathers, especially after I told them I would keep my name,' she said. Fortunately, their shock quickly morphed into fulsome joy."

[Timothy Nagler](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/fashion/weddings/nancy-coffey-and-timothy-nagler-vows.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all&ref=weddingsandengagements) eventually lost weight, transforming him into marriage material for Nancy Coffey.

"She was shocked by his looks. Online, he had included mostly head shots and described his physique as 'about average.' In fact, he weighed 245 pounds. 'He looked like he was pregnant, literally,' she said, 'and he was wearing a pink linen shirt.'"

According to the _Times_, bride [Megan Fairchild](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/fashion/weddings/megan-fairchild-and-andrew-veyette-vows.html?pagewanted=all) is "so petite and sinewy that she looks as if she might weigh about as much as a tutu."

"The wedding was like an anatomical lesson. The bride walked down the aisle in a gown with a long tulle skirt and a low back, showing off her shoulder blades and back muscles, which moved like the interior of a clock as she walked."

10/10 would watch a video of a bride dancing down the aisle, though.

"Long before marriage was a tangible notion, Shasta Klein was sure of one thing: she would walk, not dance, down the aisle."

Ok, [Lindsay Benner and Dan Das Mann's wedding](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/fashion/weddings/the-sparks-flew-before-they-even-met.html) actually sounds incredibly entertaining.

"The ceremony began with a juggler, then the entrance of eight hirsute groomsmen in gold-and-purple faux fur coveralls cut like tuxedos."

That also happened at Lindsay Benner and Dan Das Mann's wedding!!!!

"Each guest received a river rock, laser-engraved with an address on the outside and sent through the United States Postal Service. The rock was sliced and bound with wire, and inside were the laser-engraved details of the wedding."

[Christopher Ahnberg](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/fashion/weddings/a-feminist-romance-but-not-a-radical-one.html?_r=0) may have been the _Times_' first Woke Groom.

"Mr. Ahnberg says that feminism is a factor for him when voting and when he’s choosing which businesses to support. His feminist umbrage may be most on display when someone suggests that women cannot be funny."

If that dress does exist, we would like one, please.

"The bride's gown, a silk faille Carolina Herrera, was trimmed with the same Honiton lace that adorned Queen Victoria's iconic dress from her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840."

You're so good at this, you're almost ready to be \*in\* the _Times_.

You're one of those people that immediately flips to the Vows section in the Sunday _Times_ (or checks the site once every week), and it's paid off. Bravo! Now, go find your poetic, pretentious soulmate and live happily ever after.

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