Michael and Rick Dorfman have fun at Kim
and Bryan Schon's July 2002 wedding.

SHELL! LIEBMAN DORFMAN
Staff Writer

ti

Kim and Bryan Schon
under the chuppah.

hree siblings who are close
n age could be expected to do
similar things at nearly the
same time. So it should be no shock
for my husband Michael and I that
the years of diapers, bottles and car
seats would fast-forward to a world of
graduate school tuition, weddings and
our newest addition, granddaughter
Shira Chaya.
While our son Rick has been focus-
ing much of his time on being a stu-
dent at Rutgers School of Law in
Camden, N.J., our daughters have
been blending their school careers
with expanding families.
Just 3'/2 years ago, the thought of
married children with babies seemed
like a far-off dream — until Bryan
Schon came to discuss his intention of
asking our eldest child, Kim, for her

hand in marriage.
Since Michael and I became
engaged as we walked out the door of
my parents' home on our way to our
bowling league, we were not the
experts on romantic proposals. But we
should have expected the unusual
after watching our kids' friends
become engaged: one as a knight in
shining armor, one with a diamond
ring tied to the family dog's collar,
and one proposal as a purchase item
on E-bay.
We shouldn't have been shocked
that Bryan's request to marry Kim also
came with a plan.
While at dinner during a family
vacation in Florida in December 2001
— supposedly sans Bryan — he made
arrangements for 11 diners to greet
Kim with a single red rose, wishing
her mazel toy on her graduation from

,/' Shira Chaya Schon is now

18 months old.

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