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James Madison, Will Ferrell, and an Indian Orphanage: Is Love a Marathon or a Sprint?

For Christmas, the NY Times got me some seriously interesting announcements this week. Reminding us that love is more often a marathon than a sprint, we've got the wedding of two Harvard grads (two times over) who met in a dorm in 1989 and went everywhere but towards the altar until they reconnected in 2000 (after breaking up once). Twenty years later, they married at a Greek Orthodox orphanage in India (hmmm). The slideshow is worth it for the facial expressions alone and I like what they've done with it as a story telling device. Makes me wish they put one of these with every column! And that real life wedding albums were a tad bit shorter. Regardless, it's a great story and an appropriate one for a season that, at its best, is about thinking doing something good for someone else.

Now, I'm not sure what scares me more about this next one: the fact that Will Ferrell unexpectedly shows up in the video or that the couple only met in March (talk about a sprint). Seriously, only in the New York Times wedding announcements would Will Ferrell and James Madison show up a paragraph apart. Pedigree and celebrity are staples of this section. I've long accepted axiom, but I've come to realize that Colonial lineage and celebrity connection rarely make the story better. This is a standard whirlwind romance and I wish them all the best as their relationship begins its first full year but (no offense Will Ferrell), I'll take the celebrity-free marathon to the altar over the Hollywood sprint any day.