Strike the marriage bells!
A South Boston couple’s romantic Italian ceremony will go on as deliberate subsequent week, and the groom will probably be in attendance.
Donato Frattaroli is heading to the Boston Passport Agency for an appointment right now, the North End native instructed the Herald this morning. He is about to choose up a brand new passport (hopefully), simply days after his Golden Retriever pet, Chickie, destroyed his previous one.
U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch’s Office confirmed with the Herald that it had been dealing with the case ever since Frattaroli’s fiancee Magda Mazri reached out for assist from the congressman. A spokesperson stated the workplace secured the appointment for the couple.
Frattaroli had beforehand instructed the Herald that he additionally had been involved with U.S. Sen. Ed Markey. Local canine lover — PR guru George Regan — additionally assisted within the course of. The story, first reported by the Herald on Friday, went nationwide, with Frattaroli and Mazri showing in a Monday section on Good Morning America.
Chickie, brief for hen cutlet, chowed down the primary 4 pages of Frattaroli’s passport and some within the again, together with a stamp from Mexico the place he and his spouse obtained engaged over a 12 months and a half in the past.
The playful pet’s snack assault unfolded final Thursday evening on the couple’s South Boston dwelling, hours after Frattaroli and Mazri went to City Hall to fill out Intention of Marriage types.
Before Lynch secured right now’s appointment in Boston, the earliest Frattaroli might have been seen for a passport appointment was this Thursday in Atlanta. That would’ve meant a flight down south only for him to show round afterward to board a aircraft to Italy in Boston on Friday.
Crisis averted! The wedding ceremony is about to go on as scheduled, Aug. 31, exterior on the picturesque La Torre di San Marco, an previous watch tower overlooking Lake Garda in Gardone Riviera, in northern Italy.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”