"While Elisabeth [Hasselbeck] has a great relationship with Fox News, there is absolutely no truth to the rumor that she is leaving The View," her agent said in a statement on Thursday. "Elisabeth is passionate in her beliefs and enjoys being a part of this dynamic group of women and engaging in daily conversations."

The show's Executive Publicity Director added: "Barbara Walters and Bill Geddie, executive producers of The View, consider Elisabeth to be vital to the program."

Coincidentally, so do Defamer traffic figures! In all seriousness, there isn't a surfeit of female, Hollywood Republicans to replace Hasselbeck with (unless producers plan to make entreaties to Gail O'Grady or Patricia Heaton) and the full head of steam she's been working up has made the show as relevant as its ever been. You can stay for now, Elizabeth. But no hugs.

[Photo Credit: Getty Images]

• Elisabeth Hasselbeck Denies She Is Leaving The View [Us]

The poors might sympathize with the plight of the Lehman investor relations VP married to a fancy Yale doctor, since it can't be easy being a gay in the testosterone-soaked world of financial services. The VP for junk bond sales (pictured), however, is pure schadenfreude fodder.

Teddy Roosevelt may be charming; and we're terrified of the wrath of his new wife Serena Torrey, who runs marketing and business development for New York magazine. But the uninitiated reader will note only that the Lehman exec is the great-great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, and probably got his doomed job through, you know, connections.

From his Times bio. "His father is a managing director and investment banker at Lehman Brothers in Manhattan; he is also the chairman of the firm’s council on climate change." As a tipster put it, "sure hope he cleaned out his desk before heading off to the honeymoon!"

[Idea via Choire, Photo New York Times]

Michael Roach and Christie McNally

• Buddhist teachers: +2
• Live in Arizona: -3
• Live in a yurt with no running water or electricity or DVR or even Bravo: -5
• Remain within 15 feet of each other at all times because they vowed to "never part:" -15
• (-3 of that is because he gets inspired in the middle of the night and she has to then wake up and follow him 100 yards down the road to his office so he can "work".)
• (-4 of that is because they actually inhale and exhale in sync with one another.)
• (-2 of that is for eating from the same plate and often reading the same book.)
• (-6 of that is because "When she uses an airport restroom, he stands outside the door.")
• The wife uses the honorific "Lama," usually only given to a male teachers under Tibetan Buddhist tradition: +3
• Many other couples — like, from around the world — flock to them for relationship advice: +3
• They managed to piss off the Dalai Lama: +1
• His monk friends tried to get him to choose between her and them and he chose her. Then they asked him to give up his robes, citing "two milleniums of Tibetan Buddhist tradition" and he refused: +3
• He kept her secret during a three-year silent retreat in the desert and started talking about her only after he figured out they could be caught on Google Earth: -3
• He went to Princeton: +2
• She went to NYU: +1
• He once amassed a personal fortune by turning an upstart jewelry company into a $100 million per year business: +3
• They met when she was a student in the seminar he was teaching in New York: -2
• After they met, "they began to see each other as angels:" -3/barf
• They go to movies, probably in their robes and everything. She is into the Matrix, he into the Truman Show: +2
• No sex or carnal touching, ever: -69

Total points: -80
Consolation prize: Nirvana

[Times]

(Photo: David Sanders, New York Times)

Which is more matrimonabulous: Having the judge you once clerked for officiate at your wedding—or mentioning in your announcement that you were among the physicians who treated Brooke Astor? Let's see, shall we?

Sandra Gelbard & Tony Uzan

Couple married at the Waldorf-Astoria: +2
Dr. Gelbard-Uzan, 35, is an internist in private practice in New York; she specializes in cholesterol management, weight loss and preventive medicine. She is also a clinical instructor of medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital, and was among the physicians who treated Brooke Astor: +13
Tony is a managing consultant with the global business services division of I.B.M.: +2
He has an MBA from Northestern; She has a medical degree from SUNY Stonybrook: +2
Tony is over 35: -1

Total: 18

Alixandra Smith & Daniel Richenthal

The bride and bridegroom met at Harvard, from which they both received law degrees, she cum laude and he magna cum laude: +10
Alixandra graduated magna cum laude from Harvard: +4
Daniel graduated magna cum laude from Amherst: +2
Alixandra is a law clerk in the Newark chambers of Judge Julio M. Fuentes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit: +2
Mr. Richenthal, 30, is a litigation associate in the New York office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, the Washington law firm: +2
Judge Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit officiated at the wedding. The bridegroom had served as his law clerk from 2005 to 2006: +5
His mother is a teacher at the Hi-Ho School, a nursery school in Bedford. His father is a partner in Richenthal, Abrams & Moss, a New York law firm bearing his name: +4

Total: 29

Since measured earnestness appears to be the new condescending eye roll 'round these parts of late, and since holiday season is upon us, we're not going to make fun of the bride with the mother named Buttons. (Ha! BUTTONS!) No, instead, we are going to celebrate the heartwarming, straight out of a Nancy Meyers screenplay, tale of Jeanne Conway and Douglas O'Connor. Watch us!

• For Douglas's use of the phrase "I remember it vividly!" twice: +2
  
• Jeanne grew up riding polo ponies in Loudonville, NY, played field hockey and drove a convertible that matched her camel hair coat: +3
  
• Though they dated for two years in the 1950s, "There was no hanky-panky": +3
  
• Shortly after they parted ways in 1954, after Jeanne's father passed away and Douglas was sent to Georgia for military training, Douglas read about Jeanne's marriage to someone else in the New York Times - "I remember it vividly... I'm at Fort Bragg in the 82nd Airborne Division jumping out of airplanes and I pick up the Sunday New York Times and whose picture do I see but the girl of my dreams?" For this being both very proto-"Sex and the City" and very meta: +4
  
• Douglas went on to marry, not one, but two Mary Alices: +4
  
• They corresponded via condolence letters when their significant others passed away: +3 for the sweetly macabre factor.
  
• When at last the two rekindled their relationship, it became, according to Jeanne "'a magic slate' upon which they 'can write anything they want.' They became inseparable. 'If I'm not with Jeanne, I feel like I'm just waiting to be back together with her,' he said. 'It's that kind of relationship.": +2
  
• Their marriage at the Church of Vincent Ferrer on the Upper East Side, according to reporter Lois Smith Brady, was "much like one they might have had in the 1950s. Guests in flip hairdos and wing-tip shoes sang 'Amazing Grace'": +2
  
• Total: 23
  

There's something about high-powered bankers based in Hong Kong that just sends us into a tizzy. For some reason, we just find it really impressive. So sue us! And even though there was a couple with a hipster photo, Katie Couric's executive assistant, someone named Cheshire Webb III, a former White House intern who helped write the traditional Thanksgiving speech in which a turkey receives a pardon, S.I. Newhouse's nephew and a TV news reporter whom Magee Hickey referred to as "a sex kitten and a smart reporter," it was three-wedding-ceremonies-having Victoria Lim and Peter Sheren who sprinted to the lead.

Victoria Lim and Peter Sheren

• They were married by an Episcopal priest: +1
  
• They had a Jewish ceremony in Washington and a Korean ceremony in Soeul — making that three ceremonies in total!: +3
  
• Groom is Jewish and bride is Asian: +2
  
• Victoria is keeping her name: -1
  
• Victoria is a is a vice president for investment banking in the Hong Kong office of Credit Suisse, specializing in capital markets and mergers and acquisition advice for technology companies in the Asia-Pacific region; Peter is a vice president for stock sales and trading in Hong Kong for a securities unit of JPMorgan Chase, specializing in sales and trading for hedge funds in the stock markets of the Asia-Pacific region. For both being fincancial big wigs based in Hong Kong: +10
  
• Victoria graduated from Stanford: +1
  
• Even though the couple went to the same high school mixers in the early 1990s, when she was at Madeira in McLean and he was at St. Albans in Washington... they did not meet until half a decade, and half a globe, later. For both attending schmancy DC-area private schools: +3

  Total points: 19

Sometimes, even when a black Harvard grad marries a white Harvard grad, a child of a Kingston dignitary marries a child of a Kingston dignitary, a Democrat marries a Republican, a turkey-shooting Yale grad marries a turkey-shooting Yale grad and a Phish phan marries a Phish fan , it's the socialite and the Weeds executive producer who ultimately steal our hearts.

Samantha Gregory & Roberto Benabib

Samantha's parents are "of New York": +1
She is the vice president for global communications at Tory Burch, a fashion company in New York, and an associate of the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Philanthropy + Tory Burch: + 5
She graduated from Brown: +1
Her mother, Jamee Gregory is on the board of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Venetian Heritage, a monuments preservation group, and on the women's board of the Boys' Club of New York. She is the author of "New York Apartments: Private Views" (Rizzoli, 2004): +5
Her mother is Super Socialite Jamee Gregory!: Another +5
The bride is keeping her name: -1
The groom is 16 years older than the bride: +2
He is the executive producer of Weeds!: +6

Total: 24

Though former Conde Nast bigwig Steve Florio's son was in the house this week, as was a former "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast and the conductor of the Boston Pops, it was Virginia Boyd and J.B. Lockhart IV who brought the ruckus to the Times wedding pages. It was a descended-from-a-steamship-baron kind of ruckus! Who can fight that kind of power?


Virginia Boyd & J.B. Lockhart IV: 31 points

• Virginia's mother is "of New York": +1
  
• J.B.'s parents are "of Greenwich, CT": +1
  
• J.B Lockhart is a "IV": +4
  
• They were married by an Episcopal priest: +1
  
• They met while graduate students at Harvard: +7
  
• They both graduated from Yale: +5
  
• Virginia summa cum laude: +3
  
• Virginia is a lawyer: +1
  
• Her father was the chairman of the Boyd Steamship Corporation, a shipping agent founded by a great-great uncle of the bride in 1909: +3
  
• J.B. is an I-banker: +2
  
• From 2002, J.B.'s father was the deputy commissioner and the chief operating officer of the Social Security Administration in Washington: +3
  

Her name is Maddy Simpson. She's an ex-model and, although it went unmentioned in the writeup, she has been a stylist, sittings editor and photography editor for Black Book. The story of their love borders on farce, a parade of romcom clichés you swear you've seen in some movie with Andie McDowell but can't find on IMDB.

A week after their first date:

[S]he visited him at his pied-à-terre behind the Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood.

"Maddy fell in love with my place as much as me," Mr. Garbarino joked.

As for his feelings, he said: "Maddy had this cool that felt right, not trendy pretensions. And she had these one-liners....."

Mr. Garbarino soon abandoned his pied-à-terre. "I decided on the Fourth of July to pack up, and move back to New York, at first to her little apartment, then to our own place," he said.

Childhood dreams of the life of Scarlett O'Hara ran through my imagination," Ms. Simpson said. "It was our romantic respite before we had to go face the reality of what we were about to see of New Orleans." They fastened the shutters and "waited for the roof to be blown off," Mr. Garbarino said. When the electricity failed, they lighted candles and ran through the cavernous rooms, laughing....

As the storm howled, he proposed on the grand staircase. "It was love in the ruins," Mr. Garbarino said.

Maddy Simpson and Steven Garbarino [NYT]

A slew of good 'uns this week: Ondine Karady and New York Times reporter James Rutenberg were married by Times political correspondent Adam Nagourney in Montauk, Times-man Sam Roberts' son got married, Sarah Gegenheimer, the deputy communications director for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, married Frederick Baldassaro Jr., former deputy communications director for Gifford Miller, but it was Josiah Hornblower, great-great-great-great-great-grandson (yes, that's 5 "greats") and subject of our Favorite Documentary Ever "Born Rich," and his wife Jocelyn Hunter, who came out on top this week.

Jocelyn and Josiah: 20 points

• Jocelyn has an M.B.A. from Stanford: +2
  
• She works in M&A for a software company; Josiah manages investment funds: +3
  
• Josiah is a great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railroad magnate, and a descendant of Josiah Hornblower, a delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress: +5
  
• The bridegroom, according to the Times, "was one of the subjects of Born Rich, a 2003 documentary directed by Jamie Johnson on children born to wealth." For being "born to wealth," our favorite kind of thing to be born to!: +10

Shout outs this week must be given to the Martha's-Vineyard-vacationing Harvard heavyweights Teresa Clarke and John Ellis, the incesty-seeming Sachs-Sachs union, the former Pentagon interns Ensign Tilney and Major Burke, whose romance blossomed and bloomed on the sandy airfields of Kuwait, and the hippie-dippies Rose Friedman and Justin Lander, the latter of whom caught the former's attention by eating a raccoon. Holla to you all. But none of these people could compete with this week's winners.

Sara James and Seth Mnookin: 27 points

• Both Sara and Seth are Conde Nast employees (she the fashion news editor of Men's Vogue, he (apparently still) a contributing editor at Vanity Fair): +10
  
• Sara is keeping her name: -1
  
• Sara's mother owns a surf shop: +2
  
• Sara is the author of the "What If..." series of young adult novels: +2
  
• Seth's acupuncturist conducted the ceremony: +1
  
• Seth is the author of two hard-hitting books: Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top, about the owners, executives and players who took the Boston Red Sox to the World Series championship in 2004, and Hard News: Twenty-One Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media, an account of the Times under the editorship of Howell Raines: +5
  
• Seth is being celebrated in the newspaper that he criticized. So, for pulling an "Anne Hathaway now on the cover of Teen Vogue": +5
  
• Seth graduated cum laude from Harvard: +3

Though this week brought us a groom with eight world records in ultramountaineering, a Ford model, a Purple Heart award-ee, a daughter of the former mayor of Scardsale, and a former Blues Clues writer, the Altarcations crown went to Alison Sclater and Wells Dixon, two well-bred lawyers saving the world one Turkic-speaking Uighur at a time.

Alison Sclater and Wells Dixon: 26 points

• Alison is the director of pro bono services at the New York Legal Assistance Group a nonprofit organization in New York that provides legal services in civil cases to low-income people; Wells is a lawyer on staff of the Center for Constitutional Rights and is working on its Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, challenging the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay by the United States. For both being super-duper do-gooding lawyers: +7
  
• Alison graduated magna cum laude from GW: +2
  
• She received a law degree from NYU: +1
  
• Her father is the president of Sclater Partners Architects in Seattle, a company bearing his last name: +2
  
• Jonathan Wells Dixon goes by his preppy middle name: +3
  
• Wells wears a polka-dotted bow-tie in his photo: +1
  
• He graduated cum laude from Johns Hopkins: +1
  
• He received a law degree from University of Colorado, where he was the editor in chief of the law review: +2
  
• His parents are "of West Hartford, CT": +1
  
• His mother is on the board of the Noah Webster House and the West Hartford Historical Society: +2
  
• His father is the chief of rheumatology at Hartford Hospital where he serves on the board's executive committee: +1
  
• They started dating while both assigned to help seven Uighurs, Turkic-speaking Muslims from western China, who were being held at Guantanamo Bay. "That case made me realize he was the person I wanted to spend my life with," Alison said. "We both felt so passionately... as lawyers, we have the ability to do something about it." For their earnestness: +4
  
• Bride is keeping her name: -1
  

Meghan O'Rourke and James Surowiecki: 818 points

Meghan is the literary editor at Slate and a poetry editor the Paris Review: +400
She graduated magna cum laude from Yale: +4
She received an MFA from Warren Wilson: +1
Her parents are "of Easton, Connecticut": +1
Her parents run the "St. Ann's of the north," The Pierrepont School: +3
James is over 35: -1
Meghan is keeping her name: -1
James is a staff member of the New Yorker: +3
Both couples, at one point, worked at the New Yorker: +2
Combined, the couple has authored two books that we have heard of: +400
James graduated with highest honors and highest distinction from UNC at Chapel Hill: +3
His parents are "of Cheshire, CT": +1
James' father is the principal of St. Marin de Porres Academy in Hamden; as mentioned, Meghan's mother is the head of school at Pierrepont. For both bride and groom having principal parents: +2

Previously: Why People Hate Meghan O'Rourke

It looks like those wacky knuckleheads from the State Department got to Sunday Styles before we did! The wedding announcement for the winning couple (Rebecca Ingber: a legal counsel at the State Department; Anton Metlitsky: Soon-to-be clerk for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts) are nowhere to be found online, and somebody "disappeared" the Styles section from Gawker HQ. Coincidence? In any case, this lack of proof that the couple exists disqualifies them. Sorry Ingber-Metliskys!

So this means that the Altarcations crown goes to super-WASP couple Emily Johnston and Matthew Adler (who would have been WASPier if Matthew weren't a Jew)! The couple were married at a house in Old Lyme, CT, built for an ancestor of the bride, Matthew Griswold, who was the governor of the state in the 1700s AND ol' Emily's a descendent of a signer of the Declaration of Independence (one of two this week!). But now they don't need that independence—it's a life of fidelity and partnership for them!

The would-be victors: Rebecca Ingber, Anton Metlisky

Couple met at Harvard Law School: +7
She graduated cum laude; he magna cum laude: +3
She graduated cum laude from Yale: +3
Rebecca works as a lawyer in the State Department: +2
Her father is a partner in the law firm Ingber & Ingber: +2
Anton is to become a clerk to John G. Roberts Jr.: +2
He graduated summa cum laude from Penn: +4

Total: 23

The real winners: Emily Johnston, Matthew Adler

Couple married at a house in Old Lyme, CT, that was built for an ancestor of the bride, Matthew Griswold, who was the governor of Connecticut from 1784-1786: +4
Emily graduated from U Mich cum laude: +1
Emily's father retired as an engineer; her mother was a preschool teacher: +3
Emily is also a descendent of Oliver Wolcott, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, who served as governor of CT from 1796-1797: +5
Matthew works for a company of which is father is the president: +2

Total: 15

Runners-up: Elizabeth Stewart, Andrew Cohen

Elizabeth's parents are both "of Riverside, Connecticut": +1
Andrew Cohen's parents are "of New York": +1
Couple married at the weekend house of the bridegroom's mother in Water Mill, N.Y.: +2
She has an MBA from City University London: +1
He, from Columbia: +2
Andrew is an i-banker: +1
Elizabeth's father is a senior vice president for aviation services at General Electric; her mother is a preschool teacher: +3
Andrew works for an investment management firm of which his father is the president: +2

Total: 13

Second runners-up: Laura Worth, Phillip Ingle

Laura's parents are "of New York": +1
Laura "until last month" taught at St. Bernard's; Phillip is an I-banker: +3
Laura is a direct descendent of Carter Braxton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence: +5
And a descendent of Chief Justice John Marshall, who presided over the Supreme Court from 1801-1835: +3

Total: 12

Also-rans: Alexandra Flood, Samuel Alcoff

Bride is a second grade teacher at Hewitt; Bridegroom is a director of a hedge fund: +3
Alexandra received a MA in education from NYU: +1
Her parents are "of Washington, CT": +1
Samuel graduated from UPenn: +1
He received a law degree from Villanova: +1
The couple met at the International Debutante Ball at the Waldorf-Astoria where the bride was presented in 1995: +3
Samuel proposed to Alexandra last year at — "where else" — the ball. "I couldn't think of a more interesting place than the ballroom of the Waldorf while the big event was going on," he said.: +1

Total: 11

Our patented rating system:

Investment banker: +1
Both Investment bankers: +3
Management Consultant: +2
Both management consultants: +5
Trader: +2
Both traders: +5
Corporate lawyer: +2
Both corporate lawyers: +5
Plain lawyer: +1
Clerk for federal judge: 1
Clerk for Supreme Court Justice: +2
Works for Defense Department: +2
Doctor: +2
Both doctors: +5
Teacher at a New York City or Connecticut private school: 2
Parents from New York City or wealthy suburb in Connecticut: 1
New York Times employee: +1
State Department employee: +2
Bride is an elementary school teacher: +1
Works in media: +1
Ivy league graduate: +1 *
Both ivy league graduates: +3
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, Sorbonne: +2*
Both Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, Sorbonne: +5*
For each subsequent degree after a B.A.: +1
Ivy league B.A. with graduate degree at low-ranking local
college/university: -1
If bride or groom attended/teach at any school with "Country Day" in
the name: +2
Coro fellow at NYU Law: +1
Has MFA in creative writing from University of Iowa: +1
Graduated Cum Laude: +1
Graduated Magna Cum Laude: +2
Graduated Summa Cum Laude: +3
Fulbright fellow: +2
Rhodes scholar: +3
Couple met online: -1
Couple met at art opening: 2
Couple met at art opening for husband's/wife's show: +3
Woman is at ideal age for getting married (25): 1
Man is at ideal age for getting married (27): 1
For each member of couple over 35: -1
Couple married by a Cantor: +1
Couple met during or before their freshman year in college: +2
Bride or groom goes by middle name: +1
Mother a nursery school/kindergarten teacher or reading
specialist/father is a wealthy professional: +3
If the groom is Jewish and the bride Asian: +2
If the groom is Asian and the bride is Jewish: -1
Bride and groom share a last name before getting married: +2
The bride/bridegroom's first marriage ended in divorce: -2
Descendant/related to somebody famous: +3
Descendant of a President: +5
Descendant of a founding father/signer of the Declaration of Independence: +5
Groom wearing gingham in picture: +1
Parent is a trustee or board member of a company or organization: +1
per company/org
Parent is a member of the Bermuda parliament: +2
Bride or Groom is a board member of a company or organization: +1 per
company/org
Bride "is keeping her name", "will continue to use her name professionally": -1
If there is a Jr., II, III or IV in a name: +2
If there is a "von" in a last name: +2
Couple featured in "Vows" column: +2
Bride or groom's first name is a made-up preppy name: +3
If someone famous comes to the wedding and is mentioned: +2
If wedding ceremony held at Bethesda by the Sea in Palm Beach, and/or
reception under a tent at the bride's grandmother's house in P.B: +2
Bride clearly quits her job after the wedding: +1
Married by an Episcopal priest: +1
Groom is 15-30 years older than bride: +3
Bride and groom both from New Jersey: -2
Partner in corporate law firm: +3
Bridge teaches elementary school, groom in finance: +2
Bride works for auction house, groom in finance: +2
Bride/groom works for company founded by parents: +2
Bride/groom related to a socialite: +2
Bride/groom's father/mother works for a company bearing his/her last name: +2
Bride and groom's father/mother share a first name, plus initial: +4
Married at family's summer home: +2

*Apply to graduate school degrees in addition to B.A.s

This week's winning couple, Darien-raised and Princeton/Harvard-educated Susan Amble and her equally Princeton/Harvard educated groom Michael Higgins, just rocked it. And it didn't hurt that Susan attended International Gymnastics Training Camp with Intern Alexis! They even shared a cabin!

Susan Amble and Michael Higgins: 23 points

His father was until 2001 a chairman and the creative director of Griffin Bacal, an ad agency bearing his last name: +2

The Rules:

You know them by now. For the new visitor, please refer to past Altarcations.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=269872&view=rss&microfeed=true Every week, Intern Alexis analyzes the results of the Times' Weddings and Celebrations section to figure out who's winning the game of life. Hint: not you!

True, media power couple Pilar Queen and Andrew Sorkin have plenty of industry cred. But they lack the certain indefinable something that makes Avery Gardiner and Edwin U this week's winners. Edwin and Avery were married at Avery's family's summer home in Maine by a former Governor of Maine and both graduated magna cum laude from Harvard where they also received law degrees. Wait, did we say "certain undefinable something"? We meant "enormous piles of money."

Avery Gardiner and Edwin U: 22 points

• Wedding officiated by former Governor of Maine: +1
  
• Couple married at summer home of bride: +2
  
• Avery's name is a preppy name: +3
  
• Couple both graduated from Harvard: +5
  
• Both graduated magna cum laude: +4
  
• Both received law degrees from Harvard: +4
  
• Avery is a trial attorney in the antitrust division of the Justice Department in Washington: +1
  
• Edwin is a litigation partner in the Washington office of Kirkland & Ellis, a Chicago firm: +2
  
• N.B. Chick is keeping her name. Uh, OF COURSE SHE IS.

  Maya Alperowicz and Justin Florence: 20 points

• Both law clerks for Federal judges: +3
  
• Maya graduated summa cum laude from Penn: +4
  
• Maya received a law degree from Harvard, cum laude: +4
  
• Justin graduated cum laude from Yale: +3
  
• Justin received a law degree from Yale: +3
  
• Justin received a MA from Harvard: +3
  
  Samantha Barnes and Gus Christensen: 17 points
• Samantha's parents are from Greenwich: +1
  
• Gus's parents are from New York: +1
  
• They were married by an Episcopal priest: +1
  
• Both graduated from Yale: +5
  
• Samantha has an MBA from Northwestern: +1
  
• Gus has an MBA from UPenn: +2
  
• Gus is an i-banker: +2
  
• His mother is a trustee of the Brooklyn Museum and a director of the Citizens' Committee for Children in Manhattan: +2
  
• His father is the chairman of the Prospect Park Alliance and a trustee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music: +2
  
  Our patented rating system:

  Investment banker: +2
  Both Investment bankers: +5
  Job involving the word "banker" OR "investment": +1
  Both have jobs involving the word "banker" OR "investment": +3
  Management Consultant: +2
  Both management consultants: +5
  Trader: +2
  Both traders: +5
  Corporate lawyer: +2
  Both corporate lawyers: +5
  Plain lawyer: +1
  Clerk for federal judge: 1
  Works for Defense Department: +2
  Doctor: +2
  Both doctors: +5
  Teacher at a New York City or Connecticut private school: 2
  Parents from New York City or wealthy suburb in Connecticut: 1
  New York Times employee: +1
  State Department employee: +2
  Bride is an elementary school teacher: +1
  Works in media: +1
  Ivy league graduate: +1 *
  Both ivy league graduates: +3
  Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, Sorbonne: +2*
  Both Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, Sorbonne: +5*
  For each subsequent degree after a B.A.: +1
  Ivy league B.A. with graduate degree at low-ranking local
  college/university: -1
  If bride or groom attended/teach at any school with "Country Day" in
  the name: +2
  Coro fellow at NYU Law: +1
  Has MFA in creative writing from University of Iowa: +1
  Graduated Cum Laude: +1
  Graduated Magna Cum Laude: +2
  Graduated Summa Cum Laude: +3
  Fulbright fellow: +2
  Rhodes scholar: +3
  Couple met online: -1
  Couple met at art opening: 2
  Couple met at art opening for husband's/wife's show: +3
  Woman is at ideal age for getting married (25): 1
  Man is at ideal age for getting married (27): 1
  For each member of couple over 35: -1
  Couple married by a Cantor: +1
  Couple met during or before their freshman year in college: +2
  Bride or groom goes by middle name: +1
  Mother a nursery school/kindergarten teacher or reading
  specialist/father is a wealthy professional: +3
  If the groom is Jewish and the bride Asian: +2
  If the groom is Asian and the bride is Jewish: -1
  Bride and groom share a last name before getting married: +2
  The bride/bridegroom's first marriage ended in divorce: -2
  Descendant/related to somebody famous: +3
  Descendant of a President: +5
  Descendant of a founding father: +5
  Groom wearing gingham in picture: +1
  Parent is a trustee or board member of a company or organization: +1
  per company/org
  Parent is a member of the Bermuda parliament: +2
  Bride or Groom is a board member of a company or organization: +1 per
  company/org
  Bride "is keeping her name", "will continue to use her name professionally": -1
  If there is a Jr., II, III or IV in a name: +2
  If there is a "von" in a last name: +2
  Couple featured in "Vows" column: +2
  Bride or groom's first name is a made-up preppy name: +3
  If someone famous comes to the wedding and is mentioned: +2
  If wedding ceremony held at Bethesda by the Sea in Palm Beach, and/or
  reception under a tent at the bride's grandmother's house in P.B: +2
  Bride clearly quits her job after the wedding: +1
  Married by an Episcopal priest: +1
  Groom is 15-30 years older than bride: +3
  Bride and groom both from New Jersey: -2
  Partner in corporate law firm: +3
  Bridge teaches elementary school, groom in finance: +2
  Bride works for auction house, groom in finance: +2
  Bride/groom works for company founded by parents: +2
  Bride/groom related to a socialite: +2
  Bride/groom's father/mother works for a company bearing his/her last name: +2
  Bride and groom's father/mother share a first name, plus initial: +4
  Married at family's summer home: +2

  
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