This week’s contestants are not our strongest crop ever, but they’re evenly matched — so much so that we were unable to choose a winner. So we’re taking the unusual (but not unprecedented) step of opening this week’s contest to a reader vote. The poll is below, after the jump.

Here are your finalists:

1. Elissa Bassini and Jeremy Pick

2. Julia Bartolf and Gregory Milne

3. Valerie Durollari and Ken Biberaj

Read all about these couples and vote for your favorite, after the jump.

1. Elissa Bassini and Jeremy Pick
(Buy them a cocktail pick set.)

The Case:
- This couple met at the University of Pennsylvania as undergrads (she was summa; he was cum laude). They stuck around the place (wherever it is; we don’t care) for grad school, she in law and he in medicine.
- Jeremy’s finishing his MD while Elissa works as an associate at Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia.

The Case Against:
- What’s only marginally more impressive than one UPenn degree? Four UPenn degrees!

2. Julia Bartolf and Gregory Milne
(Buy them a salad spinner.)

The Case:
- The bride has an undergraduate degree from Columbia; the groom was cum laude at the University of Michigan. She’s a 3L at New York Law School, and he has a master’s from a school in Istanbul and a JD from Fordham.
- Greg is an associate in the property group at Shearman & Sterling. Julia’s scheduled to start in September (yes, September!) in the real estate group at Paul Weiss.

The Case Against:
- Michigan to Fordham is an undeniable prestige drop-down; Columbia to NYLS is like falling off a cliff.

3. Valerie Durollari and Ken Biberaj
(Buy them a Dirt Devil.)

The Case:
- This bride and groom, both children of Albanian immigrants, met an an Albanian wedding in 2004, which somehow makes them interesting enough to snag this week’s Vows column.
- Valerie was an undergraduate at NYU and is now a 2L at Brooklyn Law School. Ken graduated from American and has a master’s from Harvard’s Kennedy School, as well as a JD from New York Law School. He works for the group that owns the Russian Tea Room, where the couple’s wedding ceremony was held.

The Case Against:
- The Vows reporter’s not-so-subtle subtext is that the groom is a douche-y control freak. The write-up includes phrases like “kept to the strict schedule punched into his BlackBerry,” “scheduled the couple’s weekend in tightly timed segments,” “micromanaging,” “allotted only 20 minutes to shower and dress.” Oh, and he “encouraged her to take a job as a paralegal,” and “[he] gave her direction… . with his encouragement, she applied to law school.” Memo to Mr. Bossy Bossman: You certainly put the “pyg” in Pygmalion. Way to encourage your angel to soar — all the way to Brooklyn Law School.

The Verdict:
- Both two-lawyer couples this week fail to impress. We’re tempted to award victory to the Penn-crazy one-JD couple, but we wouldn’t want readers to think LEWW harbors a pro-Penn bias. This is a tough one, so we’re opening it up to your votes. (Be advised that there were 560 guests at the Team Durollari-Biberaj wedding, so they may have a built-in advantage.)