Let's pretend for a minute

If Matthew and I had been in the New York Times, which we were not (damn that stupid paper), our announcement would have sounded a little something like this...

Tori Lynn Katz, the daughter of Charles and Frandi Katz of White Plains, N.Y., was married last evening to Matthew Frederick Bender, a son of Michael and Marcia Bender of Highland Park, Ill. Rabbi Lisa Izes officiated at the Harmonie Club in New York.

Mrs. Bender, 27, is a communications manager at the American Dietetic Association in Chicago where she covers Medicare rules and regulations related to nutrition services. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with bachelor’s degrees in political science and Spanish and received a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Her father is the vice president of sales for Profile and Russell Athletic Big & Tall, a men’s sportswear manufacturer in New York City. Her mother is a child permanency mediator for the New York State Unified Court System. Her mother is also a mediator for the Better Business Bureau of New York State.

Mr. Bender, 30, is an equity analyst and principal at Harris Investment Management, Inc., an asset management firm in Chicago. He graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and received an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University where he was a Brooks and Abernathy Graduate Scholar.

His father is the director of client services at Omnicare Pharmacies of Northern Illinois, a provider of pharmaceutical care for seniors, in Des Plaines, Ill. His mother is a pre-school teacher at North Suburban Synagogue Beth El in Highland Park.

As a result of our lack of publication I officially boycotted reading the Wedding pages. For the day.