Happily Ever After
My husband and I appeared in the New York Times’ Vows column a few weeks after our November 8th wedding. The reporter, Lois Smith Brady, wrote a lot about my books—and about my long-distance relationship with my now husband. She didn’t mention that I surprised him with a groom’s cake in the shape of an Amtrak commuter car, to memorialize our many trips back and forth from Philly to Washington, D.C.
The Vows column is one of the first articles I read when the New York Times is delivered on Sunday. I first noticed when I was in the middle of writing The Long-Distance Relationship Guide how many of the couples featured in this column were long-distance for some portion of their courtship. It was one of the things that convinced me there was a market for the book—and convinced me LDRs have happy endings more often than people think. All of this made our inclusion in the column quite a thrill. We were in the Kauai, Hawaii airport the day it was published, on the first leg of our long trip home to Philadelphia. The end of our honeymoon! I sucked up the $9 price tag and bought a copy—I had to, right?
Tags: long-distance relationship, press, wedding