Doc + opera star = marriage
After meeting Dr. Robert Montgomery the other day, he of the record-setting domino kidney transplant surgery completed last week at Johns Hopkins, I got to Googling. Apparently, finding a way to transplant kidneys into an eight-person chain of patients at four separate hospitals just wasn't enough to occupy the surgeon over the past three weeks.
Between the third day of these surgeries on June 22 and the last day of surgery on July 6, when the chain was finally completed, the 49-year-old Montgomery went out and got married. On June 29. To opera superstar Denyce Graves.
"An intimate thing, just the two of us," is what she told The Washington Post's Reliable Source column. Second wedding for both. ...
Reliable Source goes on to tell the tale of how the pair met on a flight from Dulles to Paris four years ago, how the small wedding was just the first of three ceremonies they are planning -- with one a blessing next month in a Masai village in Kenya and a big to-do at Washington's National Cathedral to follow in September.
The 45-year-old diva, in a good way, sounds like she is just wild about the bearded surgeon. "I am myself in awe and in great reverence for the way he lives his life," she told the column.
Photo/Matt Mendelsohn Photography via Washington Post
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Interesting post-wedding plans they have. I'm sure they'll be warmly received by their Masai hosts. In late 2007, at the end of a three-year stint in Africa, I spent a night at a Masai boma in Tanzania. This was not a touristy operation but the real deal. The villagers were wonderfully hospitable. At some point I was told that a goat would be slaughtered in my honor. "Stew or barbecue?" I was asked. I went with the barbecue and am here to say it was delicious.
Posted by: Scott Calvert | July 15, 2009 12:05 PM