Always a Bride and Groom, Now Together as a Married Couple

Denise Fennell and Rick Pasqualone were married an estimated 5,000 times between them as stars in “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding,” the Off Broadway hit.

Among the first words that Denise Fennell and Rick Pasqualone ever said to each other were, “I do.” That was in 2006, when Ms. Fennell and Mr. Pasqualone were married at a casino in Temecula, Calif., — that is, in a production of “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding,” the Off Broadway hit where she played the part of Tina and he Tony. “When I married Ricky that day, I just couldn’t stop staring at him, he looked so handsome,” said Ms. Fennell, her words emanating not from a shallow rehearsal script but the deep recesses of her heart. “I couldn’t wait to meet him later at the bar and really get to know him.”