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THE NEW YORK TIMES WEDDINGS SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 2002 VOWS ST Photographs by Peter Corless for The New York Times Lisa Faden, Robert MacDougall Mr. MacDougall, 30, was raised by wolves in the Canadian wilderness. OU should not believe There he learned their cunning and everything Lisa Yoshiko Faden cruelty, but his noble bloodline and Robert Duncan reasserted itself when he was MacDougall tell you about their discovered by missionaries and restored relationship. Ms Faden, for instance, to his family’s ancestral estate. “Asays that she “picked up” her future wooooooo-oo!” said James husband “in a dive bar.” Mr. MacDougall, the bridegroom’s brother MacDougall claims that the two first and best man. met in Hong Kong. In truth, the two On June 29, a crowd of family and were introduced by mutual friends at friends gathered at the bride’s alma the Hong Kong, a Boston bar of last mater, a picturesque New England resort known for sticky floors and a college, to see the happy couple wed. cheerful disregard for legal drinking Guests sipped cocktails of litchi, ages or closing times. “The Kong is not pomegranate, and prosecco, and where you’d expect to find Mr. Right,” danced to a hair-metal band containing said Jennifer Morrill, one of the friends for mer members of Poison and who brought the couple together. “Just Warrant. After much coaxing, the bride his evil twin, Mr. Available.” Daniel sat in on bass guitar for a rousing Hamilton, another friend who rendition of “Unskinny Bop.” AMHERST, MASS. JUNE 29 Guests, top, mingled in an idyllic woodland setting engineered that meeting, agreed. “You In the spirit of the occasion, before the ceremony. Above, the happy couple share an embrace. will never find a more wretched hive Americans and Canadians mingled of scum and villainy,” he said. together, mostly without incident. (The ‘Good Will Hunting.’” For her part, Ms Faden won But both bride and groom are sincere when they Canadians were polite in mixed company, but huddled Mr. MacDougall’s heart with a “really goofy” marvel at their good fortune in finding one another. amongst themselves to complain about Yankees who impression of Alexis de Tocqueville. “Plus, she dances “Think of all the unlikely things that had to happen conflated the Ottawa and Saskatchewan Roughriders, just like a Muppet,” he said. just so that Lisa and I would meet in that exact place while American guests laughed openly about the Friends described the couple with enchanting, if at that exact moment,” said Mr.MacDougall. “The Canucks’ pronunciation of the word “sorry.”) meaningless, paradoxes. “Lisa is daring yet traditional, only rational explanation is that all of human history The ceremony reflected the couple’s diverse grounded but berserk, sensible yet spontaneous, highhas been an immense and secret conspiracy to bring heritage. Bride and groom composed their own vows, flying yet down to earth, out-going but shy,” said us together.” entwining elements of medieval French love poetry, Elaine Worthy Thomas, a bridesmaid. “Rob is the last, History is a subject the couple knows something the Kabbalah, and lines from “The Simpsons” and or maybe the second-to-last, of the neo- quasi- postabout. Ms Faden, a graduate of Amherst College and “WKRP in Cincinnati.” Ms Faden, who is of Jewish retro- Renaissance men,” said Mr. MacDougall’s friend Harvard University, teaches world, American, and East and Japanese descent, wore an antique kimono in the Peter Stuart. “But he hates labels.” Asian history at Newton North High School in style of Tomoe Gozen, a legendary woman samurai. Ms Faden, 29, grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. Newton, Massachusetts. Mr. MacDougall, a graduate The couple stood under a chuppah hand-quilted by She has traveled throughout Japan and China, where of Queen’s University at Kingston, is completing a the bride’s chakra circle. Mr. MacDougall’s Scotchshe gained the mysterious power to cloud men’s minds. PhD in American history at Harvard. “He charmed Canadian ancestry was reflected by a cash bar. Returning from the East, Ms Faden made a name for me on our first date talking about Gordon Wood’s “Iä! The stars are right, the age of man is at an herself in the 1990s as an international art thief. But ‘Creation of the American Republic,’ how Wood end! By marrying you I complete the ancient she soon learned that with great power comes great drastically underestimates the impact of social prophecy!” said Lakota shaman Donald Scary Bear, responsibility—and gave up her life of crime for a distinctions predicated on wealth,” recalled Ms Faden. who performed the ceremony. career in teaching. “Wait—on second thought, that was a scene from “Mwaa ha ha ha ha ha!” he added. By LOIS SMITH BRADY Y 9