Easter weekend was a slow one for weddings, with the New York Times featuring only one couple eligible for LEWW consideration. We're taking this opportunity to catch up on Couple of the Month voting for January, February, and March.

Below the jump, you'll find write-ups on all our 2009 weekly winners so far, plus the opportunity to cast your vote for the strongest legal-eagle couple from each month. Polls close Monday at noon; we'll announce the winners next week.

Happy voting!

1. Arlene Hong and Darren Duffy
(Read our January 11 column.)
(Buy them a nut bowl.)

The Case:
- This fabulously 40 bride is senior VP and general counsel at J. Crew. She graduated from Columbia and has a JD from Cornell.
- The groom is the chief content officer at Lipper, where he sits in a big room with a bunch of other people, furiously calculating the Lipper Average, which is undoubtedly in the toilet like everything else. He went to St. Joseph's and has an MBA from NYU.

The Case Against:
- We haven't bought anything at J. Crew in ages; their catalogs seem to have been taken over by bridesmaids' dresses and cheap-looking jewelry. But OMG, how cute are these sandals?

2. Courtney Shea and Stephen Ball Jr.
(Read our January 18 column.)
(Buy them a mini-chopper.)

The Case:
- Their picture presents them as friendly and normal, and there's no video to make us hate them.
- The bride, who attended Georgetown and has a master's from Boston College, is an editorial assistant at a media company. The groom is an associate at Burns & Levinson in Boston.

The Case Against:
- The groom's credentials (Vermont/Vermont Law School) are a tad weaker than the ones we typically fawn over. And yet there's something unpretentious about the Vermont stuff, as if maybe the guy just likes Vermont and didn't feel like going to, say, Penn. Weirdly refreshing.

3. Marion Ringel and Joshua Panas
(Read our January 25 column.)
(Buy them a tomato knife.)

The Case:
- Yummy resumes for this pair. They both graduated from Yale (he cum laude) and they have his-'n'-hers cum laude JDs, she from NYU and he from Georgetown. (Question: Why did the one with honors end up at GULC?)
- Marion was until recently an associate at Simpson Thacher; now she's a staff lawyer at Ziff Brothers Investments.
- Josh is an associate at Clearly Gottlieb, where he specializes in commercial real estate.

The Case Against:
- Marion's dad is a partner at ATL's beloved Cahill Gordon.

1. Leah Yoon and Cyrus Frelinghuysen
(Read our February 1 column.)

The Case:
- This talented bride has been both a concert pianist (making her debut at the Kennedy Center at the age of 7) and a communications director for George W. Bush's 2004 campaign. She has an undergraduate degree from Julliard and a master's in public policy from Columbia.
- Cyrus is the grandson of a former Congressman. His mother's first name is "Barrett." You get the picture. But we must give you his credentials anyway, and here they are: undergrad at Princeton, master's in international relations from Johns Hopkins, JD from Georgetown, associate at Howrey.

The Case Against:
- The NYT is confused about whether or not Howrey is prestigious enough to get the definite article, referring to it as "Howrey, the a Washington law firm."
- "Cyrus Townsend Frelinghuysen" is kind of a douche-y name. And his picture doesn't exactly shatter that impression.

2. Kendall Burman and Eric Volkman
(Read our February 15 column.)
(Buy them a garment bag.)

The Case:
- Even without a single Ivy League degree, this profile packs plenty of prestige. The bride, who graduated from Bowdoin and has a JD from the University of Chicago, was the chief staff counsel to the Obama campaign and last month was named an associate counsel to the President.
- Eric went to Haverford and has a JD from UVA. He's an associate at Latham in DC.

The Case Against:
- We love this interview from the WSJ Law Blog, where Kendall is reluctantly forced to admit that she got the Obama gig in part because her daddy's a partner at Perkins Coie, the campaign's outside counsel.

3. Sophie Jensen and Robert Lalley
(Read our February 22 column.)
(Buy them an ice bucket.)

The Case:
- This two-lawyer pair met as students at Albany Law School. The bride was cum laude at Union College; the groom went to SUNY-Buffalo and has a master's from SUNY-Albany.
- Sophie began a new job this week as an assistant district attorney in Binghamton, NY. Robert works as legal counsel for BAE Systems.

The Case Against:
- Everything in their write-up happened in the state of New York, yet none of it happened in New York City.

1. Christie Love and J. Lee Hill Jr.
(Read our March 1 column.)
(Buy them a corkscrew.)

The Case:
- This couple's write-up occupies the Vows column spot this week, so it's long on cutesy anecdotes and short on resume details. We do learn that the bride, a staff lawyer at Advocates for Children in New York, is "Columbia-educated."
- The groom is a Baptist minister; his bio appears on his church's website and includes degrees from George Mason and Wake Forest Divinity School.

The Case Against:
- They both chose their career paths at a young age. In the groom's case, that meant "giving sermons to neighborhood children when he was 9," which is super-cute. The bride "was still in elementary school when she made up her mind to be a lawyer in New York," which seems less cute and more sad.

2. Dina Mishra and Benjamin Shultz
(Read our March 8 column.)
(Buy them a shower curtain.)

The Case:
- This couple's only non-Harvard degree is from YLS, so let the slobbering commence. They were both summa at the big H, he was magna at HLS, and she's a 3L at Yale.
- The groom is on the appellate staff of the civil division at DoJ. The bride will be starting a clerkship for First Circuit superstar Michael Boudin in June.
- The couple had a Jewish-Hindu wedding ceremony. This article explains that Dina is one of many "HinJews," the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Hindu father.

The Case Against:
- No picture, and a rather lean write-up overall (it doesn't even say what their parents do). But really, what more do you need?

3. Rebecca Kirszner and James Katz
(Read our March 15 column.)
(Buy them a home recycling center.)

The Case:
- The bride, who graduated from Clark University and has a master's from UPenn, is a former communications director for Harry Reid. She now works for Hilltop Public Solutions, a political consulting firm.
- The dreamy groom graduated from Brown and is pursuing a joint degree in law and public policy from Harvard. His father, Robert J. Katz, is a senior director and the former general counsel at Goldman Sachs, as well as a former partner at Sullivan and Cromwell.

The Case Against:
- We have a very good feeling about this couple. She's 33 and he's 28, but that's not a big enough difference to gross us out. We actually like James more than we would if he were marrying a 24-year-old marketing intern.

4. Maeve Townsend and David McKean
(Read our March 22 and 29 column.)
(Buy them a muffin pan.)

The Case:
- First things first: The bride is the daughter of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and the granddaughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy, so the NYT Vows column is naturally in full swoon mode. LEWW was born without the Kennedy-adulation gene, but we'll play along because this bride actually seems fairly cool. She graduated from BC, spent time in the Peace Corps, has a tattoo, and wore sneakers to her wedding. She's currently finishing degrees in law and foreign service at Georgetown.
- The groom, who is two years her junior, went to Berkeley and has a JD from American.
- If the Vows column doesn't provide enough cutesy glimpses into their courtship, their website fills in the gaps (we particularly like this).
- Oppenheimer grandkids register at Tiffany and Bergdorf Goodman; Kennedy grandkids register at Macy's and Crate & Barrel. Discuss.

The Case Against:
- Their friends call them "Maevid." Also, they have the whitest wedding party we've ever seen.