Rebecca Smith wed

Rachel West Smith, middle child of BJ veterans Tim and Jane Smith, got married at the Columbus Zoo on Aug. 6, to James Nelli, a computer programmer. Rachel teaches gifted 4th and 5th graders at Hilliard Schools on the west side of Columbus and James works for a software firm in the city. They met last year at a games convention. As part of the entertainment, zookeepers provided a 43-year-old turtle, a baby wallabie, a clouded leopard on loan from another zoo and a macaw (very large parrot) named Lapis -- something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. While the bride and groom were the main attraction, grandson Zebediah, 21 months, son of youngest child Bryan and wife Wendy, stole the show with a marathon dance session. Smith, who left the BJ in '86 for Kent State, now has all three of his children married off.

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