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New Orleans native Cristina Ortiz ’10 and Richard Carapezza of Salt Lake City may hail from different parts of the country, but it was clear that the two regulars at the Cambridge Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had more than religion in common.
But when he returned east to start a master’s degree in psychology at New York University, the relationship, now newly unfettered by continental distance, grew more serious.
By that fall, the two had started talking about marriage. Carapezza said he had a friend in the jewelry business who helped him find the ring, but even with forewarning, the timing of the proposal still came as a surprise to Ortiz. She was visiting Carapezza in New York for...
“I was pretty shocked,” Ortiz remembered. “We had talked about marriage before, but I wasn’t expecting it then!”
But Carloss had other plans. “I had all the reading down on the floor. Mike used to be a Senate page in high school—he knew all this stuff...It was definitely all about trying to get as much info out of him as possible...