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Metzinger
- Hong
Adrienne Metzinger,
29, and Sung Jin Hong, 30, both of the Brooklyn-based One
World Symphony orchestra, were married on Saturday Oct. 21
at the Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn
Heights, joined by 125 guests. The reception was held at Song
restaurant on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope.
The couple lives in Windsor Terrace.
The bride is the daughter of Ron and Donna Metzinger of Rochester,
NY. Adrienne attended Brockport High School, class of 1994,
and continued at the Alfred University School of Art and Design,
earning a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in 1998. She
is currently a graphic designer and opera singer with One
World Symphony.
The groom is the son of Il Pyo and Kyung Ja Hong of Peoria,
Ill. He grew up in Seoul, Korea, and moved to the United States
at the age of 10. He attended Peoria Central High School,
class of 1993. He continued his studies at Illinois Wesleyan,
earning a bachelor’s degree in Music and Religion in
1996, and attained a master’s degree in Conducting from
Bard College in 2003. He is artistic director and conductor
of One World Symphony and teaches at The Promise Academy in
Manhattan.
About the wedding
The bride says: “We had a very tight budget, but we still
wanted to make it a special and beautiful event. Having it
at St. Ann’s, where we have been performing with One
World for at least four years, has a lot of meaning for us
— sort of like having your wedding in your own backyard.
“Members of our One World Symphony performed music by
Johann Sebastian Bach, Gustav Mahler, music from ‘Cinema
Paradiso,’ and a piece that Sung Jin composed especially
for our wedding. How many weddings do you go to where there
is an orchestra playing?
“Our wedding was a beautiful candle-lit event. I think
what made our wedding so great was how we had so much help
and everyone really pitched in, including our friends and
family, like an old-fashioned wedding. One of my very closest
friends, Rebecca Kessler (rebeccakesslerdesign.com) gave me
the very special gift of not only being my wedding planner,
but also of making my wedding dress and all of the bouquets,
boutonnieres and floral arrangements.
“My co-worker Jean Wellington of Flatbush made one of
our wedding cakes — we had two — as her gift to
me. Jean is from Trinidad and it was a traditional rum cake
that she made and decorated. My friend Andrea Pinyan, also
a Flatbush resident, made my other cake, a tower of mini chocolate
bundt cakes. (I mean CHOCOLATE: chocolate cakes with chocolate
chips and chocolate ganache.)
“The rehearsal dinner was held at Lichee Nut on Montague
Street, and Sung Jin and I wore traditional Korean ‘hanboks’.”
(See picture, above.)
The groom says: “We both believe that sometimes music
can express more deeply than words, so music that has a special
place in our lives and hearts was performed during our wedding
ceremony.
“We had a tribute for our parents and grandparents during
the ceremony. During this unique moment, One World Symphony
played John Williams’ ‘Anakin’s Theme’
from “Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace”
because it expresses what one would do for love. (Anakin’s
sacrifice was very tragic, but his intent was for love and
to save his wife.) Our parents and grandparents have sacrificed
so much to raise us and guide us. For example, my parents
sold a lot of their personal things in order to immigrate
to the USA when I was just 10 years old; they sold their wedding
bands and engagement ring.
“One would think this piece will be loud and exciting
because it’s from ‘Star Wars’; but it’s
quite the contrary: very intimate, moving and sensitive and
tells the story about ‘What one would do for love.’
”
How did you meet?
The bride says: “We met while I was in my first year
in New York. I was singing in the chorus of a small, local
ensemble. Sung Jin came on as the chorusmaster. He said that
I sang too loud and never cut off with the rest of the singers.
But we have been fortunate to grow together.
“Our first date was at the Museum of Modern Art. Sung
Jin was over 15 minutes late! At a dinner party a week earlier,
Sung Jin made the statement that he would only wait 10 minutes
for someone before leaving. I argued that you had to wait
at LEAST 15 for someone. When he arrived late to the MoMA,
I said, ‘10 minutes, huh?’ ”
Who proposed & how?
The bride says: “On March 26, 2006, One World Symphony
made its debut performance at New York’s historic Town
Hall. After the final piece, ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’
there was a thunderous applause followed by a huge standing
ovation, which continued for some time with people cheering.
Then to my surprise, the ovation was silenced by Sung Jin
who began to speak. It soon became apparent that he was talking
about me.
“He started to falter and get emotional. I was seated
in the center of the balcony in a box seat that he INSISTED
that I sit in. And then there — in front of over 1,400
people (including my mother, father, brother AND his mother,
father and sister) — he said, ‘Adrienne has been
there with me from the very beginning and I hope she will
be there to the very end.’
“He reached in his pocket. I couldn’t believe what
was happening. ‘What was he doing?,’ I wondered,
and he pulled out a small black box. The audience went CRAZY!
People were SCREAMING, going absolutely NUTS. He got down
on one knee, with the orchestra in shock behind him. [The
audience members were] clapping and shouting — screaming
even louder — and he asked me to marry him.
“I have never been more shocked or surprised in my whole
entire life! Talk about swept away! The audience was in tears
and the orchestra was in tears. I can’t even conceive
that this happened to me in this way. After I agreed to marry
Sung Jin, the orchestra manager came up and got me out of
my box seat and led me through the ecstatic audience and back
stage and onto the stage where I met Sung Jin, and he placed
the ring on my finger.
“People were screaming and yelling congratulations. The
audience was filing to the front of the stage and congratulating
us! It was the most memorable event of my life. Sung Jin and
I have received an onslaught of e-mails from complete strangers
and friends who were in the audience.””
Yeffet
- Wininger
Charley Wininger, 57, and Shelley Yeffet, 55, were married
on Oct. 22 at Candela restaurant in Manhattan, in the presence
of 60 guests. Interfaith ministers Rev. Laurie Sue Brockway
and her husband, Rev. Vic Fuhrman, officiated.
The wedding program stated their upbeat outlook: “We’ve
done this before. We’re trying again. Today we declare
our undying love to each other — but we know full well
there’s just no telling. But when we stumbled upon what
feels and tastes and (the heart says) loves like the real
thing, how could we not kick the baggage aside and walk down
the aisle together?”
They couple lives in Clinton Hill.
The bride is a registered nurse who works at Forest Hills
Hospital in Queens.
The groom, a Gestalt psychotherapist and dating coach in Park
Slope, was dubbed “The Love Doctor” by Newsday in
2002. He has talked about relationships on numerous talk shows
and newspaper articles, and offers “RelationShop”
dating seminars around the city.
How did you meet?
The couple met at one of those RelationShop seminars, and
on their first date, at a park near Woodstock, NY, Yeffet
suggested they roll down one of the hills.
“I haven’t done that in 48 years,” she recalls
saying. Her exuberance led Wininger to add a new element to
his RelationShop dating advice.
“If you’re not having fun at the beginning, you
never will,” he said. “To have that joyful bond,
of play and celebration and fun, will get you through the
humps and the snags that invariably come.”
Who proposed & how?
Wininger proposed to Yeffet, an enthusiast of show tunes,
in a very creative way during a stroll through Times Square.
He started singing “New York, New York,” followed
by “Somewhere” from “West Side Story.”
To her surprise, people on 44th Street, faces concealed by
newspapers, chimed in. Then Yeffet looked up at the TV screen
at Times Square and saw their photo and a message asking,
“Will you marry me?”
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