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just wanted to draw your attention to an [un?]intentionally most hilarious times wedding announcement. ever. i cut & paste for your convenience. no time for links or nuthin' (except those from the times). res ipsa loquitur, my friends.

Sophia Ruth Chaknis and Joseph Daniel Levy were married yesterday in the Old State House in Boston. The Rev. Mark D. W. Edington, an Episcopal priest, officiated at the nondenominational ceremony.

The couple both work at Harvard, she as the administrator of Adams House, an undergraduate residence, and he as a senior human resources consultant for the arts and sciences faculty. The bridegroom, a graduate of Harvard, is also a sophomore adviser at Adams House.

The bride, 32, will continue to use her name professionally. She graduated from the University of Florida and received a master’s degree in classical archaeology from Florida State University.

The bride is a daughter of Suella M. Chaknis and Manuel Chaknis of Hampton, Va. Her father is a clinical psychologist in private practice there.

The bridegroom, 31, is the son of Kathleen E. Levy and William D. Levy of Wauwatosa, Wis. His mother, who is retired, taught students who were struggling academically at Wauwatosa East High School. His father is a financial analyst in Milwaukee with the United States Postal Service.

The couple met through an online dating site in April 2005.

“My account was set to expire in May, and I was going to take the summer off from dating,” said Ms. Chaknis, who was living in Boston and had been on the site sporadically since January.

She decided to try the dating site one last time, she said, and was drawn to Mr. Levy’s profile: He was tall (6-foot-4) and worked in human resources, which she said she found “exotic.”

They exchanged daily getting-to-know you e-mail messages for two weeks or so, then arranged for a first date on May 1, at a neighborhood bar-restaurant in Boston that Mr. Levy had suggested.

After chatting a bit, Ms. Chaknis asked him to pick an appetizer. He ordered calamari.

“I had never been on a date with a guy who had eaten, much less voluntarily eaten, calamari,” she recalled thinking. So she said to him: “ ‘I love calamari. I’m going to have to marry you.’ ”

“I was only kidding,” she added, but by ordering the dish, “It showed that he was willing to try something a little different.”