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The wedding: ‘The Cloud’ to the rescue

A dozen minutes behind schedule, Aaron O’Meara, flanked by his beaming parents, entered the main ballroom at Philadelphia’s D ...

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Countdown to ‘huppah’: The best man seeks a comeback

“Sorry, Molly, the airport’s closed. We’re heartsick about it, but we had to give up and head home. Give Aaron a hug fo ...

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The best man blows it: The case of the missing rings

After a well-oiled, highly kibitzed viewing of the latest X-Men movie in the hotel suite, the male side of the Levy-O’Meara wedding ...

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Wedding morning: The world wears white; the boys play some street ball

On Rachel Levy’s wedding day, the world wore white. Early that morning, snow was general over the Delaware Valley. It had fa ...

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Rachel in love, with a frosty beverage in hand

A few blocks away from the Omni hotel, Aaron O’Meara continued to gaze at Rachel Levy with lovestruck eyes, as she downed a very sm ...

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Parental postmortems on the rehearsal, and dread for a snowy dawn

About midnight that night, the Levys and O’Mearas each lay in their hotel rooms in Old City. Each husband and wife stared into the ...

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How Rachel Levy and Aaron O’Meara got together

“Gator!”  “Big Dude!” Kris Mason elbowed his way past a few tired businessmen holding Scotch and soda ...

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‘Gen. O’Meara’ arrives at Philly wedding HQ to take command

Try as she might, Molly O’Meara couldn’t really sustain the pretense that Suzanne Levy’s crazy wedding calendar was spo ...

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About the author, illustrator and radio cast

Chris Satullo and Tony Auth have done a serialized, illustrated Christmas story together every year but one since 1996. The first dozen s ...

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How the legend of the Levy-O’Meara wedding began

Later on, once the tale of the wedding weekend of Rachel Levy and Aaron O’Meara had settled into legend – to be told and retold a ...

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