Kari + Scott

Aquaman and me

I don't recall any career counselor ever telling me, "Here's a job you'll love. You're going to don a scuba suit with a professional golfer and wallow around in a murky public golf course pond in Wichita. Oh yeah, you'll have to make a nice portrait of him before he strangles you."

Woody Austin, left, is a top-30 PGA golfer who, unfortunately, took a dive into the water when he fell chipping out of a pond at the 2007 President's Cup. His fellow pros and the golf press have since dubbed him Aquaman. He's a good enough sport that we were able to, first, get him into the scuba suit, and, most importantly, get him in the water in public. I think having his wife there to cheer him on helped a lot.

Love of the Irish: Erin + Nick

If there's one time in your life to go all out, a wedding would be that day. Erin + Nick went 1st-class all the way. Even the girls bathroom at the reception was adorned so well, it was a shame I had to leave after taking a picture (security was, however, fairly insistent).

The dance floor was vast but I don't remember one inch of parquet being empty the whole night. My favorite flourish came at the end of the evening when waiters passed out slider hamburgers and old-school bottles of Coke. It was the delicious exclamation point of incredible day.