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Can a Bills fan and a Patriots fan live together happily ever after?

By Howard B. Owens

Local residents Jim Collins, a.k.a., Jimi Jam, and Margot, are building a house divided.

Jim is a diehard Bills fan and Margot is equally passionate about the Patriots.

For their wedding, they decided to embrace their one fundamental difference in life and hold an NFL-themed wedding.

The wedding was recently highlighted on ESPN's Web site.

Collins wrote to us:

We got a Bills/Pats mat to stand on, the minister dressed as a ref. We exited the ceremony to a string quartet playing the NFL on CBS theme. For the reception, I donned a Cookie Gilchrist jersey and the ushers wore eye black. Guests were invited to wear a jersey if they wished at the reception, where we served the usual wedding fare and tailgate-style food, including hot dogs & beer. The cake was a logo masterpiece with a very cool cake topper. For the kids we set up a big screen with Madden on XBox and we cut the wedding cake to the Bills "Shout Song."

People said it was the most fun they ever had at a wedding.

The video below played before the couple entered the reception:

Sharilyn Fotiathis

My boyfriend and I? Yankees/Red Sox Bills/Vikings Sabers/Canucks It works because we don't live together! LOL

May 12, 2012, 12:10pm Permalink

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