Monday, June 8
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Monday, April 27
So So So cool. I LOVE this incredibly unique wedding, and insanely romantic story…
IT started with Gummi Bears.
In 1987, Michelle Rosen offered candy to David Zornitsky during their first lecture at a C.P.A. course in New York. It was no accident that she was sitting next to him. She had spotted him at registration and after exchanging glances, she recalled, “I just knew I was going to marry him.”
Ms. Rosen, who like Mr. Zornitsky was then 23, was well aware that such decisions were best made after lengthy dating, or at least an introduction. But she said she was convinced that, “He was my missing piece.”
It took more than 20 years for the couple to find a way to make those pieces fit.
Not that each had ever lacked interest in the other. When the two met, Mr. Zornitsky was attracted to the dark-haired woman with candy in her purse. Two weeks later, while on a trip, he took time to send Ms. Rosen a postcard. “I wanted to make sure she was thinking of me,” he said.
He had asked her to send him “brief notes” for the classes he would be missing. She took his request quite literally, buying a pair of men’s briefs and transcribing her notes onto them.
That was when he knew he was dealing with someone special.
Soon they were dating exclusively. “The passion was going at warp speed,” he recalled. “My friends were all envious. There was nothing more I could have wanted.” Even so, he felt he was too young to settle down and suggested that they see other people. A pained look appeared on her face. He said, “I remember walking away thinking: You’re an idiot. This isn’t what you really want.’ But at that age you just keep walking.”
They went their separate ways. But not for long. They described a very 20-something cycle of being together and apart, with each taking turns breaking the other’s heart.
The pattern continued until 1991, when Ms. Rosen was working in the sports division of HBO, where she is now a national marketing director. She invited Mr. Zornitsky to Atlantic City for the network’s first pay-per-view boxing card. They walked the red carpet amid celebrities and paparazzi. “It was one of those moments where you are where everyone in the world wants to be,” she said.
“Michelle was radiant,” he said. “I couldn’t get enough of her.”
On the drive back from Atlantic City, he decided to introduce her to his parents. In his mind it was a straight line from there to marriage, but she had doubts about his intentions.
They began to bicker on route to his parents’ home in Spring Valley, N.Y. “She said ‘You have to prove to me that you’re serious,’ and I said ‘You’re crazy if you think I have to prove it,’ “ he recalled. He turned the car around, and headed toward New York City instead, ending another chapter in their relationship.
He decided he had made a terrible mistake, but it took him a year to admit it to her. In 1992, Ms. Rosen agreed to meet him for a drink. But after he told her how much he missed her, she pulled her left hand out of her pocket, revealing a diamond ring on her fourth finger.
“I had no idea that was coming,” he said of the news of her engagement. Sitting on bar stools, side by side, their eyes filled with tears.
“My animal instinct was to take the girl I loved and leave with her,” he said. He didn’t.
She appreciated Mr. Zornitsky’s restraint. “I had made a commitment to my fiance.” Ms. Rosen, now 44, explained. But she also harbored a secret hope. “I envisioned David coming on his white horse to rescue me.”
Four years later, she separated from her first husband, but by that time Mr. Zornitsky was married and eagerly expecting the first of his two sons. In 2002, it was Mr. Zornitsky whose marriage was floundering; Ms. Rosen had married for a second time and had an infant son.
Through it all they remained friends and ruefully joked that they would be together when “we were 80 and sitting on a park bench in Florida,” she said.
That changed in 2005 after Ms. Rosen’s second marriage collapsed. She was “shell shocked” at the prospect of being a twice-divorced woman. “That’s not who I am, and I don’t know how I got here.” she said. “I never thought I would be Elizabeth Taylor.”
Mr. Zornitsky offered a sympathetic shoulder and courted her with buckets of chocolate kisses. “She was the girl who got away, and I was going to get her back,” he said. Mindful of the likely effect on their families, she slowly began to spend more time with him.
“I think she is still more beautiful than any other girl,” said Mr. Zornitsky, now 44 and the chief financial officer of Brownstone Asset Management, an investment firm in New York.
“I have loved David since I was 23,” Ms. Rosen said. “He makes me feel as lovely and youthful as I was in my 20s.” She added, gratefully, “Makes looking in the mirror” a lot easier.
On April 5, the couple was escorted by their three boys down an aisle lined with lollipop trees at Dylan’s Candy Bar in New York. The bride wore a borrowed dress made of candy wrappers that was designed for “Project Runway.” Rabbi Douglas Sagal then led them in their vows beneath a wedding canopy of giant Whirly Pops and candy-colored balloons.
Their 50 guests dined on peanut butter and jelly tarts and candy sushi (Coconut rice, Swedish Fish and Fruit Roll-Ups) while the couple danced to “Sugar, Sugar.”
Julie Halpern, a friend of the couple, marveled at the trajectory of their relationship and their buoyant spirit. “Not all weddings have a lollipop rainbow,” she said as her 7-year-old daughter listened intently. “But they should.”
Article and Photo Credits: The New York Times - Via/ Bride Tide
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