The best man reportedly called it “a betrayal the Bronx will not soon forget”
A Staten Island wedding reception briefly descended into chaos over the weekend after the groom was discovered wearing cufflinks bearing a rival team’s logo, a detail groomsmen say went unnoticed until the reception’s photo slideshow revealed it in high definition.
A Reception, Interrupted
“I got them as a gag gift years ago,” said groom Anthony Marchetti, attempting to explain himself to a room that had, by his own account, “gone very quiet, very fast.” “I forgot I was wearing them. It was an accident. A twenty-year accident, apparently, judging by the reaction.”
The best man reportedly used part of his toast to formally apologize to attending relatives “on behalf of the family,” while the bride, for her part, said she found the entire ordeal “the most New York thing that has ever happened at one of my events.”
Fallout
Marchetti says he has since replaced the cufflinks with a properly branded pair, gifted by his father-in-law “as a wedding present, and also, I think, a warning.”
The London Prat‘s sport desk covers Britain’s own football rivalry etiquette, including a groom once asked to remove a scarf before entering his own reception hall.
The New York Daily News notes the incident has since become a minor local legend among the couple’s extended family.
Marchetti says the marriage, unlike the cufflinks, remains “fully intact and, honestly, stronger for it.”
A Happy Ending
The couple has reportedly agreed that all future team-branded items will require prior approval from a three-person family panel.
Marchetti says he has considered framing the offending cufflinks “as a warning to future generations,” a plan his new mother-in-law has enthusiastically endorsed.
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