Journalists Tie the Knot in Newspaper-Themed Ceremony
Posted: 8/15/2011 | By: Heidi Kulicke
A creative Maryland couple paid homage to the industry that brought them together during a recent wedding ceremony and reception.
Megan Poinski and Tim Fields first met in 2003 after both were hired as reporters for the Virgin Islands Daily News. They became a couple, and soon after, a “powerhouse investigative reporting duo,” said Poinski, current associate editor for nonprofit news site MarylandReporter.com. Although Fields no longer works in the newspaper industry, the couple found it fitting to throw a newspaper-themed wedding bash to reflect their life together so far. “Having a newspaper theme was a natural thing to do,” Poinski said.
From the invitations to the wedding favors, the wedding reflected the couple’s tie to newspapers, not soon to be forgotten by their guests. In fact, after urging from several guests in attendance, including other journalists, Poinski contacted Jim Romenesko of the Poynter Institute. In her letter to Romenesko, Poinski outlined the meticulous details that took a year to plan.
The invitations were written in press release style using typewriter font, and gift bags for out-of-town guests were crafted out of saved newspapers. An eight-page newspaper announced the wedding program, and Poinski even recruited her 10-year-old twin cousins to dress up as old-fashioned newspaper boys to hand them out to guests. The place cards for guests were designed as press passes, complete with neck lanyards — which about half of the guests actually wore. Poinski created centerpieces from old typewriters, passed out notebooks and pens as wedding favors, and set out an old paperboy bag for guests to put cards in.
The couple didn’t want to go overboard; Poinski and Fields wore a traditional dress and tuxedo and had a traditional cake. “We were mostly interested in making our wedding a reflection of who we are and what our relationship is, not necessarily borrowing someone else’s ideas or being overly creative,” Poinski said. And the best part? “Marrying the man I love,” she said.
Megan Poinski and Tim Fields first met in 2003 after both were hired as reporters for the Virgin Islands Daily News. They became a couple, and soon after, a “powerhouse investigative reporting duo,” said Poinski, current associate editor for nonprofit news site MarylandReporter.com. Although Fields no longer works in the newspaper industry, the couple found it fitting to throw a newspaper-themed wedding bash to reflect their life together so far. “Having a newspaper theme was a natural thing to do,” Poinski said.
From the invitations to the wedding favors, the wedding reflected the couple’s tie to newspapers, not soon to be forgotten by their guests. In fact, after urging from several guests in attendance, including other journalists, Poinski contacted Jim Romenesko of the Poynter Institute. In her letter to Romenesko, Poinski outlined the meticulous details that took a year to plan.
The invitations were written in press release style using typewriter font, and gift bags for out-of-town guests were crafted out of saved newspapers. An eight-page newspaper announced the wedding program, and Poinski even recruited her 10-year-old twin cousins to dress up as old-fashioned newspaper boys to hand them out to guests. The place cards for guests were designed as press passes, complete with neck lanyards — which about half of the guests actually wore. Poinski created centerpieces from old typewriters, passed out notebooks and pens as wedding favors, and set out an old paperboy bag for guests to put cards in.
The couple didn’t want to go overboard; Poinski and Fields wore a traditional dress and tuxedo and had a traditional cake. “We were mostly interested in making our wedding a reflection of who we are and what our relationship is, not necessarily borrowing someone else’s ideas or being overly creative,” Poinski said. And the best part? “Marrying the man I love,” she said.