Wedding Section Greatest Hits

I think this is set to be a weekly feature. I already send out emails discussing the Vows column anyway, why not post them in blog form? (PS are we to believe that your dwarf emails have ceased, CB?) Poetry Tuesdays, Wedding Section Sundays...


Match made in heaven? Does she secretly hate him? Discuss.

Mrs. Murphy, 30, is a strategic planner at Anomaly, a marketing and advertising company in Manhattan. She graduated from the University of Richmond and has two graduate degrees in psychology, a master's from the University of Virginia and a doctorate from Harvard.
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Mr. Murphy, 29, is a freelance art director at advertising agencies in Manhattan. He is also a street performer known as Chengwin, for which he dons a half chicken, half penguin outfit. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design.

(Yes. Chengwin. Let that sink in for a minute... and now, if you needed more to suspect this was the biggest joke of an announcement ever...)

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The couple's first date was during the Northeast blizzard of December 2000, when Mr. Murphy convinced Ms. Schoeffel to accompany him to Prospect Park in Brooklyn to play in the snow.

"We bought a blowup sled on Atlantic Avenue," Ms. Schoeffel recalled. So as to gain momentum, Mr. Murphy suggested that he get a running start and that Ms. Schoeffel jump on his back.

"Which sounded like a good idea at the time," she said.

He ran. She jumped. And they both went tumbling. Mr. Murphy plunged headfirst into the snow. "And my head went into his," Ms. Schoeffel said.

The blow knocked her out.

Mr. Murphy said, "I took snow and cleaned the blood off her nose and mouth." Seeing his date bruised and bloodied had a strong impact on him. "I got this overwhelming need to protect and care for her," he said.

Ms. Schoeffel regained consciousness, and they went to a hospital emergency room, where the doctor said her nose was broken. Ms. Schoeffel recovered, but snow still makes her nervous.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/fashion/weddings/04scho.html