He Said (I Do), She Said (I Do)

Stacey Chen and Nick Cugini first met in high school as members of competing debating teams. In college, they were on the same side.

When Nick Cugini received a Facebook friend request from Stacey Chen, he was intrigued, and a little amused. The two, who were then teenagers, had met for the first time at the Tournament of Champions, a top-tier debate competition for high school students at Northwestern University. Mr. Cugini, now 30, was a relative newcomer to the national debate scene and had been nervous. “I was probably a bit shy and antisocial; I mostly hung out with people that I already knew,” he recalled of that day in early May 2008. “Stacey and I didn’t converse that much. So it was kind of funny when she added me on Facebook, because really, we’d only exchanged a few words!”