Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 8.2: Turkish Delight

How young is too young to get married? Or more to the point, how young is too young to appear in the NYT weddings pages and not look foolhardy or vaguely scandalous? We ask because these newlyweds, ages 22 and 24, strike us as shockingly young. (And it’s definitely not a shotgun wedding — click on the link and you’ll see why.)
At any rate, this week’s featured newlyweds are all older than 22, so it’s a moot point. (If you want to ponder the trends in MAFM [median age at first marriage], here’s more.) Our finalists:

1. Caroline Nyenke and LaRue Robinson
2. Elianna Marziani and James Nuzum
3. Zehra Dincer and Matthew Mazur


Click on the link below for the scoop on these newlyweds.



1. Caroline Nyenke and LaRue Robinson
(Buy them a glass beverage bottle.)
The Case:
– Lawyer marries future doctor. These lovebirds met as undergraduates at Cornell. The groom received a JD from Columbia in May; he’s scheduled to start at Mayer Brown in January. The bride will begin medical school at the University of Illinois later this month.
Vice President Biden would probably call this an articulate-looking picture. We just think they’re cute-cute-cute!
The Case Against:
This site says that LaRue “will serve in the Army as a Judge Advocate General” in 2010. Does Mayer know about this?

2. Elianna Marziani and James Nuzum
(Buy them an umbrella drink on their honeymoon.)
The Case:
– This bride was summa at Washington and Lee and has a JD from the University of Chicago. She works as an associate at Goodwin Procter.
– The groom graduated magna from Colby and is in a master’s degree program in architecture at Boston Architectural College.
The Case Against:
– The groom is employed as “chief model maker” at the Gund Partnership. That sounds like a job in Santa’s workshop. But it’s probably way less prestigious.

3. Zehra Dincer and Matthew Mazur
(Buy them something — when they finally register.)
The Case:
– This bride hails from Istanbul, Turkey, where she graduated from Bogazici University. She now studies stem cell biology in a joint Ph.D. program at Cornell and Sloan-Kettering.
– Her groom graduated from Yale and has a law degree from HLS. He’s a staff lawyer at the Office of the Appellate Defender, a nonprofit law firm in New York that does appeals for indigent defendants in criminal cases.
– Matthew’s dad recently retired as a partner at Wachtell after 28 years there; he’s now of counsel.
The Case Against:
– This isn’t the most appealing picture. Zehra looks like she’s gearing up for a grueling proctology exam. But she looks spunky and probably cleans up well.
The Verdict:
Team Dincer-Mazur went to the best law school, Team Nyenke-Robinson is the most attractive, and Team Marziani-Nuzum has an actual Biglaw job (a January 2010 “start date” doesn’t count).
So it’s a close one. Readers, you make the call:

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