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Rita V. & Andrew J. Zasowski Married: July 4, 2015, at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Rita: “My dad is a musician. He wrote a song for each of his kids when we were born, so we danced to my song for the father-daughter dance. There’s a line that goes, ‘If you ever go away, please don’t let it be too far away.’ My father-in-law, in the picture here, was among many fathers in the room who were brought to tears when they heard it. The videographer said it was the rare time that an original song actually went over well at a wedding.”

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