{"id":8294,"date":"2015-07-25T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8294"},"modified":"2015-07-26T06:58:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T11:58:30","slug":"chicagos-fun-couple-ties-the-knot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/07\/25\/chicagos-fun-couple-ties-the-knot\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago\u2019s \u2018fun couple\u2019 ties the knot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8301\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/07\/25\/chicagos-fun-couple-ties-the-knot\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8301\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8301\" alt=\"Natalie Bomke and Ed Zwiderski\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Natalie-Ed.jpg\" width=\"429\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Natalie-Ed.jpg 429w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Natalie-Ed-224x300.jpg 224w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Natalie-Ed-150x200.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Natalie-Ed-400x534.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Natalie-Ed-200x267.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Natalie Bomke and Ed Zwiderski<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wedding bells rang high atop Chicago Saturday night for Natalie Bomke, weekend news anchor at Fox-owned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxchicago.com\" target=\"_blank\">WFLD-Channel 32, <\/a>and Ed Swiderski, a former contestant on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe Bachelorette.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two were married in an outdoor civil ceremony amid the flying buttresses of Tribune Tower's 25th floor in the private rooftop veranda known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrownchicago.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Crown. <\/a>The reception was held at Howells &amp; Hood, the restaurant on the building\u2019s ground floor.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The couple first went public with their romance in January 2014 when Swiderski rose to Bomke\u2019s defense in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2014\/01\/06\/were-a-fun-couple\/\" target=\"_blank\">strangely passive-aggressive letter<\/a> he sent after I\u2019d mentioned Bomke on this blog a few times. \u201cWe\u2019re a fun couple,\u201d Swiderski wrote after inviting me for a drink with them sometime. The meeting never happened.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a first marriage for both Bomke, 33, who grew up in Springfield and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2013\/09\/12\/is-this-the-face-of-the-future-for-fox-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\"> joined <\/a>Fox 32 in 2013 from KRIV-TV in Houston, and Swiderski, 36, a Chicago technology consultant who appeared in the fifth season of \u201cThe Bachelorette.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bomke\u2019s Fox 32 colleagues at the wedding included news anchors Corey McPherrin and Larry Yellen and meteorologist Tammie Souza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wedding bells rang high atop Chicago Saturday night for Natalie Bomke, weekend news anchor at Fox-owned WFLD-Channel 32, and Ed Swiderski, a former contestant on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe Bachelorette.\u201d The two were married in an outdoor civil ceremony amid the flying buttresses of Tribune Tower's 25th floor in the private rooftop veranda known as The Crown.... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/07\/25\/chicagos-fun-couple-ties-the-knot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8294"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8294\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}