[Originally at After Covering More than 7,000 Weddings, Something New: A Canine Groom by Vincent M. Mallozzi]
As a Society News reporter at The New York Times, I’ve covered more than 7,000 weddings across three decades, from the current president’s son to the son of a gun who refused to submit a photo, he said, “because, to tell you the truth, my fiancée and I are not very good looking.”
If I may be a bit lyrical here:
I’ve also married, in print at least, scores of doctors, lawyers, handymen and corporate chiefs, as well as athletes, bartenders, mortgage lenders and father-daughter pastors with conflicting theological beliefs. They all arrived in various increment to be stamped with a kind of sacred ink that makes them news fit to print.
Nurses, actors, politicians, men and women in blue, soldiers, spacemen, musicians and M.B.A.’s and Ph.D.’s from N.Y.U. I thought I had covered every kind of “I Do,” including a few, I swear to you, exchanged by two who had been on death row. I know. I know. But believe me, it’s true.
Then came a call that topped them all — from a public relations woman named Laurie Monteforte — about a woman named Lilly Smartelli, 55, of Phoenix, who is dreaming about marrying her best friend, Bernie, who happens to be her dog.
See the rest at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/reader-center/dog-wedding-reporting-lilly-smartelli.html or see more great stories at www.dowoakevents.com
I initially thought this would be the mother of all click-baity articles. But after reading more of it, I came to see it was actually… very sweet. I’m almost hesitant to post it with other things like wedding-themed bounce castles, to be honest. But it definitely is worth the read.
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