More Scenes You May Have Missed From The Steinbrenner Memorial 2

nothing like those down home country wedding ceremonies. from April 15, 2009

YOU'VE heard Yankees co-chairman Hal Steinbrenner married Christina DiTullio, a very good-looking New Yorker with dimples on both cheeks, Saturday at papa George's horse farm in Ocala, Fla. What you haven't heard is how simple and sweet a famous family can be.
This was a down-home country ceremony. The couple stood under a tree laden with Spanish moss. A Connecticut minister whom both love officiated. Flowers in the bride's hair. Her old-world Italian parents from upstate cried. Ronan Tynan, positioned behind an oak tree someplace, missed his cue but finally sang "Ave Maria." The guest list included Christina's dachshunds, Otto and Stella, dressed in a necklace with bows.
The groom told me how they met: "November '07, two months after my divorce, a mutual friend introduced us on a blind date. Christina's from Rochester and very down-to-earth. Kind of like I am. She knew nothing whatsoever about baseball. Never even heard the name A-Rod. Today she knows more about the game than I do."
Said the bride, sitting alongside her husband of half a week: "Hal's such a good man. Caring, loving, nurturing, sincere and so smart. Also handsome. With blue eyes. I pledge to him all my love."