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Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 5.24: Food for Thought

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Before we discuss this week’s finalists, here’s a peek at some of the weddings we can’t feature due to space constraints: a former Kirkland & Ellis partner marrying the youngest-looking 62-year-old we’ve ever seen, the creator of the Anonymous Lawyer blog marrying an anonymous doctor, and a Rhodes Scholar marrying an ordinary person.
The fact these couples couldn’t make the cut should tell you a little something about the quality of the field as we near the summit of the wedding season. Here are the three lucky couples who’ve reached the finals this week:

1. Kate Adamick and Kay Diaz
2. Sabrina Charles and Jamie Dycus
3. Jessica Chilson and Franklin Reece

Read more about these newlyweds, after the jump.


1. Kate Adamick and Kay Diaz
The Case:
– Gay marriage has been a hot topiccolor> on ATL recently, but it feels like forever since we’ve had the opportunity to feature an actual same-sex wedding in this space. These two fab females have the NYT Vows column this week, and they fill it with sweet, gooey love:

The next day Ms. Adamick flew back to New York from California. To her surprise, Ms. Diaz was waiting for her at Newark Liberty airport with two dozen roses. The connection was instantaneous.
“She dropped the flowers on the ground and kissed me,” Ms. Adamick said.
“We were making out in the car like two teenagers,” Ms. Diaz said.
By the following morning they were engaged.

Yep, they got engaged the morning after they met, and they’d been talking on the phone for approximately three weeks prior to that. What’s that joke about lesbians and U-Hauls?
– Kate has an unusual occupation: She’s an institutional meal reform consultant, a job that focuses on making sure the fruits and veggies kids throw at each other in the school cafeteria are locally grown. (Despite Kate’s preoccupation with responsible consumption, it’s Kay who’s the vegetarian.)
The Case Against:
– Both Kate and Kay have JDs (Kay’s a senior trial counsel in New York State’s social justice division), but we can’t comment on their educational credentials because the Vows columnist couldn’t squeeze them in, what with all the over-the-top gushing (“‘My cheeks physically hurt since I’ve known her,’ Ms. Diaz said, her radiance undiminished.”).

2. Sabrina Charles and Jamie Dycus
(Buy them a sugar bowl.)
The Case:
– The NYT gives us all the dirt on Sabrina and Jamie’s educational backgrounds, but it’s not dirty at all. They met as 1Ls at Yale Law School (in room 127, their website tells us). Sabrina went to Michigan undergrad and has a master’s from Harvard. Jamie went to Stanford, completing the gorgeous H-S-Y trifecta.
– But wait, the prestigery intensifies: Sabrina’s an associate at Wachtell, the ten-carat diamond in the Biglaw crown. And Jamie will begin a clerkship with Judge Reena Raggi of the Second Circuit, just as soon as he wraps up his high-minded ACLU fellowship.
The Case Against:
– There’s simply nothing to hate about this couple. Even the age and hotness disparities run the right way: He’s 38 and ordinary-looking; she’s 29 and stunning.

3. Jessica Chilson and Franklin Reece
(Buy them a pastry board.)
The Case:
– Doesn’t this picture scream “UVA Law”? The pearls, the pink sweater, the large WASP-y foreheads…. Indeed, they met in the land of beer and softball after earning undergraduate degrees at Duke (her) and Middlebury (him).
– Jessica is an associate at Ropes & Gray in Boston, and Franklin is a special assistant US attorney there. This fall, he’ll begin a clerkship with Judge James C. Cacheris in the Eastern District of Virginia.
The Case Against:
– No Ivy League degrees, and no lesbians. Third place.
The Verdict:
Team Adamick-Diaz impresses us with its boundless passion and matching bouquets. But it can’t truly compete with the confirmed Harvard-Stanford-Yale fabulousness of Team Charles-Dycus. Congratulations, newlyweds!

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