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Brian and Meryl met the old-fashioned way (for millennials, that is) — on the internet. “Meryl wrote in her profile that she went to ������ý, so I brought up ������ý in the first message I sent to her,” Brian says. “She wrote back, and off we went.”

The couple became engaged on campus in September 2016. They toasted their engagement that weekend — and their wedding a year later — using a pair of wine glasses etched with the University seal that they had purchased at the bookstore.

The pièce de ������ý résistance was the wedding cake topper, a replica of Brian and Meryl wearing ������ý hoodies. “We didn’t want to have one of those generic little bride-and-groom cake toppers,” Brian says, so they found a company that makes customized toppers. “We decided that instead of wedding attire, it would be great to have the cake topper made with ������ý sweatshirts and jeans, like we might’ve worn walking around campus,” Brian says. “It was a huge hit at the wedding, and now it’s on a shelf in the bookcase in our living room.”

Brian majored in political science, with a minor in Judaic studies. He is an assistant county attorney in the Westchester County Attorney’s Office. Meryl majored in human development. She is a special education kindergarten teacher for the New York City Department of Education.