Greenwich, Conn Wedding
Rivalries were pushed aside at a New Year's Eve 2007 party, where Katherine Pushkar, 37, features editor for the New York Post, and Eric Barrow, 38, deputy Sunday sports editor for the Daily News, were set up by their respective colleagues. "I think he was complaining about being single," the bride guessed as to why their friends thought to make the match. "I was very actively dating, so [my friend] put us together. When I met him, he looked up and smiled, and it was really, really great."
Her position at a rival paper didn't seem to bother Eric either. "She had an astounding intellect, a fascination and love of baseball and just the right amount of hokeyness that I liked," says Eric. "Her working at the Post was not as big a hindrance as you might think."
Six months later, Eric proposed. "We were just hanging out and had a really great day," Katherine recalls. "At the end of the day, he asked me to marry him. He didn't have a ring or anything, so I don't think it was planned because he's very much a planner and traditionally romantic. I think it was just a super-fun day and the spirit moved him."
Escorted by her father, Katherine made her way down the aisle at Christ Church wearing an A-line dress that "felt very me." She carried green and blue hydrangea with white roses. Standing at her side were six bridesmaids, wearing green and blue tea-length dresses, and her brother, the man of honor, with a matching green tie.
More blue and green hydrangea filled the Riverside Yacht Club, where the 150 friends and family members were treated to carrot cake and chocolate-covered strawberries. The pair performed their first dance to "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now," by McFadden & Whitehead, choreographed by MatriMonyMony. Favors were reporters' notebooks with a cartoon the Daily News' own Bill Gallo created for the couple's save-the-date. The pair of wordsmiths continued their celebration with a honeymoon throughout Rome, Florence, the South of France and Barcelona.
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