Kimberle
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(There are a couple of threads floating around here about them.) The NYC "version" was today. Guess what! The only ones "dupped" were us, the audience! Seems in NJ (where the wedding was held), the bride & groom have to appear together to get a marriage licence. That would have ruined the whole "suprise" since they weren't to see each other/meet until the actual wedding.
Here's the site w/ pictures & video:
http://www.wplj.com/Article.asp?id=162215&spid=
Read the article in todays paper:
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/new...,2565210.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines
You may now meet the bride: Stamford man to 'wed' stranger
By Donna Porstner
Staff Writer
Published February 22 2006
STAMFORD -- A city man getting married today can't wait to see his blushing bride.
But chances are he won't recognize her.
The groom, a 35-year-old software trainer from Stamford, will marry, though not legally, a woman he has never met at 8 a.m., during a broadcast of "Scott & Todd in the Morning" on FM radio station WPLJ.
It was a short engagement.
"Roxanne" proposed to "Tommy" on air eight days ago, on Valentine's Day, as part of the station's "Two Strangers and a Wedding" promotion.
The station named the contestants after popular rock songs to conceal their identities. Every time they went on air, their theme songs played.
The disc jockeys and a panel of experts interviewed hundreds of women from the tri-state area before selecting Roxanne, a 36-year-old marketing manager from Westchester County, N.Y.
After talking to the five male contestants on air and listening to them co-host the show, Roxanne selected Tommy -- who is related to a prominent Stamford resident -- and popped the question.
Today, the couple will be joined in a commitment ceremony at a Bridgewater, N.J., catering hall before an all-expense-paid honeymoon in Barbados.
The bride and groom were spared the hassle of haggling over the guest list. WPLJ listeners competed for invitations to the biggest fairy-tale wedding since Nick and Jessica.
"It's everything a real wedding has except the marriage license," a spokeswoman for the radio show said.
The producers had planned a legal wedding, until they found out the bride and groom had to be present to apply for a marriage license, which would have ruined the surprise.
Whether they apply for one will depend on how they hit it off on the honeymoon.
Don't know how the California "wedding" will be handled. Guess it depends on how the marriage license is obtained!
Here's the site w/ pictures & video:
http://www.wplj.com/Article.asp?id=162215&spid=
Read the article in todays paper:
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/new...,2565210.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines
You may now meet the bride: Stamford man to 'wed' stranger
By Donna Porstner
Staff Writer
Published February 22 2006
STAMFORD -- A city man getting married today can't wait to see his blushing bride.
But chances are he won't recognize her.
The groom, a 35-year-old software trainer from Stamford, will marry, though not legally, a woman he has never met at 8 a.m., during a broadcast of "Scott & Todd in the Morning" on FM radio station WPLJ.
It was a short engagement.
"Roxanne" proposed to "Tommy" on air eight days ago, on Valentine's Day, as part of the station's "Two Strangers and a Wedding" promotion.
The station named the contestants after popular rock songs to conceal their identities. Every time they went on air, their theme songs played.
The disc jockeys and a panel of experts interviewed hundreds of women from the tri-state area before selecting Roxanne, a 36-year-old marketing manager from Westchester County, N.Y.
After talking to the five male contestants on air and listening to them co-host the show, Roxanne selected Tommy -- who is related to a prominent Stamford resident -- and popped the question.
Today, the couple will be joined in a commitment ceremony at a Bridgewater, N.J., catering hall before an all-expense-paid honeymoon in Barbados.
The bride and groom were spared the hassle of haggling over the guest list. WPLJ listeners competed for invitations to the biggest fairy-tale wedding since Nick and Jessica.
"It's everything a real wedding has except the marriage license," a spokeswoman for the radio show said.
The producers had planned a legal wedding, until they found out the bride and groom had to be present to apply for a marriage license, which would have ruined the surprise.
Whether they apply for one will depend on how they hit it off on the honeymoon.
Don't know how the California "wedding" will be handled. Guess it depends on how the marriage license is obtained!
