SEPT. 22 – After dating for two years, Sam Consentino took Roxana Valerio out for his birthday to a spot right next door to his office, where they first met in 1997. “He said he thought long and hard about what he wanted, and that no other gift could compare to me,” says Valerio, office manager for Consentino’s dental practice in Queens. The pair wed at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Corona, Queens, then joined 130 guests for cocktail hour on a yacht cruising around the city.
ESSENTIALS
* First dance: Christina Aguilera and Andrea Bocelli’s “Somos Novios” mixed with Perry Como’s “It’s Impossible”
* Ring: an emerald-cut stone framed by two smaller diamonds
* Honeymoon: two weeks in Italy