Wednesday, August 06, 2008

The Weird Weiss-Maliks

My parents met when my mother moved into the same dorm that my father lived in at Kent State University. Three years later, my mother was shopping in a supermarket with her own mother, my grandmother. They were discussing how my mom would deal with the soon to be long-distance relationship with my father. My grandmother asked, "Why don't you just marry him?" They walked the store five times without putting a single item in the shopping cart, and then my mother, a Weiss, called my dad, a Malik, to say yes to a question that he had posed before. And so the Weiss-Malik family came to be.

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My brother Andy met Leslie at work. They had been dating for a few months when he pulled out a twisty tie, playfully wrapped it around her finger, and marked the diameter. Soon, during a quiet evening at home, he took out a ring and asked her to marry him. And so within a year of dating, they tied the knot.

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Greg and I met at the dog park, less than two weeks after my big move to New Haven, and we were agreeable to the marriage idea from early on. We had been dating for two years and living together for six months; I was gone from New Haven for two weeks, and I think he missed me more than usual. He asked me to marry him when I got back. And so I did.

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Michael, my other brother, and Leslie (yes, we have two Leslies), met through a mutual friend. They had some quiet conversations about the topic at home. They decided to get married, kept it to themselves for a month, and then casually announced their engagement to the family. But Michael wasn't satisfied with the original proposal. And so, he went one step further, to Proposal 2.0.

http://www.marrymeleslie.com/

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This, from the guy responsible for googlemoon and googlemars and googlesky. This, from my brother who used to spend hours on the computer mimicking newspaper print typeset and copying the design of the Advil bottle to create unique party invitations that he could hand out to his friends. This, from the adult who wanted heelys for his birthday. This, from techno-geek supremo :). What I am saying is this: Michael is creative, technology-oriented, loving and fun. Of course he would do something as adorable as this.

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Congratulations to Michael and Leslie! (And to Andy and Leslie, who had their first child, little baby Alexandra, a few weeks ago!) Us Weiss-Maliks are getting settled...

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The newest addition to the family. Little does little Alexandra know how weird we Weiss-Maliks actually are...





(Updated: Michael made it into this Wiki entry)

8 comments:

theredplayroom said...

I love it! Just visited, voted, commented, the whole works.

I used to love those crazy font newsletters he used to make.

theredplayroom said...

PS I added you to my google reader. :p

Rachael said...

isn't michael funny? I always figured he'd get into prop/set design or something. That or counterfeiting stuff :D

Anonymous said...

aww -- you guys are so cute. :P i love proposal 2.0. congrats on becoming an aunt!

arielle said...

That's great! I love both 1.0 and 2.0. Has she gotten a lot of emails from the site?

And congratulations on becoming an aunt! Of course I must ask...what did your brother and sister-in-law do about their last names, and what did they give to your niece?

Anonymous said...

OMG..I totally didn't know you had this blogspot...
I Love it!!

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