{"id":2631,"date":"2007-08-17T09:31:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T17:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/with_this_drop_i_thee_wed.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:48:23","slug":"with_this_drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/with_this_drop.html","title":{"rendered":"With This Drop I Thee Wed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/brooklyn\/2007\/08\/16\/2007-08-16_wild_ride_just_the_start.html\">the Wonder Wheel was already booked<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Two Brooklyn lovebirds are getting hitched today at the summit of the Cyclone, the historic Coney Island coaster with as many twists and turns as a modern-day marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Meyer, 39 and Teri Muroff, 38, will be married on the coaster&#8217;s 85-foot-high peak by the Rev. Cliff Herring, a card-carrying member of the American Coaster Enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Going up the first ascent, Cliff is going to say the vows, and then we&#8217;re going to hit the first drop and scream &#8216;I do!'&#8221; said Muroff, a painters&#8217; union employee who planned the wild ride with Meyer when they got engaged in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 100 friends and family members will join the thrill-seeking couple on the platform of the 80-year-old wooden coaster before actually riding it to the top.<\/p>\n<p>Meyer and Muroff plan to read individualized vows during the one-minute, 50-second ride, but said they would take as many rides as it takes to accommodate each of their guests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were concerned that we wanted to have something that wasn&#8217;t too tacky,&#8221; admitted Meyer, a welder who said he and Muroff initially investigated a wedding on the beach. &#8220;But to us, tacky is chandeliers and mirrors in wedding halls.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just save the ring exchange for afterwards . . .<\/p>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/coneyisland\/cyclone\/index.htm\">The Cyclone<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the Wonder Wheel was already booked: Two Brooklyn lovebirds are getting hitched today at the summit of the Cyclone, the historic Coney Island coaster with as many twists and turns as a modern-day marriage. Robert Meyer, 39 and Teri Muroff, 38, will be married on the coaster&#8217;s 85-foot-high peak by the Rev. Cliff Herring, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}