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从Roomies to Life-Long Partners, How EC Played A Role In Their Love

埃尔迈拉大学 Alumnae Zoe Shelton Corato ’18 and Marissa Colson Corato ’18 exchanged vows in September 2023 in a camp-themed ceremony that included many nods to the College where they first met and became friends.

从一开始,两人就有联系. 一切从佐伊·科拉托走向玛丽莎·科拉托开始, 护理专业, 在他们开学的第一个晚上,他说, “我们会成为最好的朋友.” The boldness of the statement was slightly out of character for the typically shy Psychology and Business Administration double major, but she was swept up in the college experience of meeting people and making friends. 尽管如此,她还是不知道自己的话会有多么具有预言性.

At first, the friends lived next door to each other in Alumni Hall. Not long into their first year, they decided to become roommates. 从那以后他们就住在一起了.

Throughout College, neither was much into dating or going out to bars.

“我们都是宅男,”他们分享道.

当他们大四的时候, Zoe Corato was admitted to a doctoral program at the University of Rochester in Rochester, 纽约. She asked Marissa Corato to look for a nursing role there so that the two could continue to live together and be “best friends.”

“It was only after we were in Rochester for two years that we realized we were gay for each other,玛丽莎·科拉托开玩笑说.

The news that these longtime friends were now in a romantic relationship was less surprising to some of their friends than it was to themselves. 听到这个消息后,一个朋友问:“那是什么改变了?”

他们的回答是:“我们现在接吻.”

It didn’t take long for the two besties now lovers to begin thinking of marriage. 然而,谁会求婚呢? 结果他们俩都同意了.

Unbeknownst to each other, they each got rings and were planning to “pop the question.但玛丽莎·科拉托是第一个采取行动的人, inviting Zoe Corato to go with her to the Warner Castle Estate Gardens in Rochester to see the Alling DeForest Sunken Garden.

没有意识到, she tipped her hand and let on to her ulterior motive when she asked Zoe Corato to change out of sweats and into something more formal.

“I got suspicious and put the ring I had in my pocket, just in case,” explained Zoe Corato.

When Marissa Corato got on her knee and asked Zoe Corato to be her wife, 佐伊·科拉托说, “Uno逆转. I’m also proposing,” and then took out the ring she had for Marissa Corato. The whole double proposal was caught on video by a family friend who then took pictures of the engaged pair in the gardens.

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大约一年半之后, the two celebrated their love with family and friends at Camp Cory near Penn Yann, 纽约. About half of the bridesmaids were friends from 埃尔迈拉大学. The couple had special “Camp Corato” sweatshirts made for the bridal party that incorporated an octagon shape as part of the logo. And the entertainment was the Midwest Dueling Pianos, which they first heard as EC students.

Rather than taking either one of their last names, they created a new one. Corato combines their hometown names of Corinth and Cato, 纽约.

When asked how married life is going they turned to each other with big smiles and, 好像他们俩以前从未讨论过这件事, 玛丽莎·科拉托说, “我认为一切进展顺利.” And then Zoe Corato giggled and, with great satisfaction, replied, “I also think it’s going well.”

Zoe’s and Marissa’s bond is an example of the lifelong connections EC students create and a testament to the personal experiences so common to the tight-knit EC community.

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