Wedded to Their Newspapers

By: Sam Chamberlain If you happened to pass the corner of North Roosevelt and Kennedy Boulevards in Key West, Fla., on June 27 at 10 a.m., you would have been a guest at the wedding of Mark Stevenson and the former Jeanne Marie McGinnis ? who regularly use that spot to hawk copies of The Key West Citizen. "We weren't able to do a fancy wedding with a reception or anything like that," the groom tells E&P. "So that's what I decided to do."

"We wanted to do it on the street so that our regular customers could take the time off work and come down and see us," the blushing bride adds.

Stevenson, who was formerly homeless and has sold copies of the Citizen for two years, met Jeanne Marie in March of this year. "Two days later, she was out there hawking papers with me," he says.

Citizen Circulation Director Bob Timmerman, who attended the nuptials, says both Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson earn "$110 to $125 per day" hawking copies of the 50-cent paper. Mark Stevenson plans to keep hawking "indefinitely," and he and the Mrs. sold their customary 150 papers following the ceremony.