Engaged Golfing Men, Keep Justin Timberlake Away from Your Wife-to-Be

This next story hits home a little bit for me on a couple of fronts: (1) I'm getting married on May 22 and (2) my fiance is a golfer that adores Justin Timberlake.

The same is true for this 29-year-old dude Mike, whose fiance Julie is a huge JT fan.  Julie's mom - doing the natural thing when it comes to making dreams come true - sent a letter to Oprah Winfrey's show and explained her school girl megacrush.  Winfrey responded by conspiring with Julie's fiance to organize a golf lesson with Timberlake as part of her Harpo Hookups.  (Get it? Harpo equals Oprah backwards!  How playful and alliterative.)

I can only imagine that the lesson went something like this:

For Mike placing his engagement at risk by allowing his wife-to-be into whatever the equivalent for women is of Penthouse Forum, Timberlake arranged for both he and Julie to get a set of Callaway clubs.  Huzzah for all!

Oh, there's a third reason why this story has a personal impact: in the fall, my fiance and I traveled to Chicago for a wedding.  By happenstance, she saw Ellen Degeneres send a tweet about meeting up with Oprah on the Magnificent Mile.  We - along with our friend - spent a good couple of hours just waiting for Oprah and Ellen to show up and say funny stuff.

These are the things you do for love.