B.I.O.: Banded For Life

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CURTIS BATEMAN WANTED to pop the question to Nancy Perschbacher with flair, so he got them into Breakfast With the Penguins at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. (Why not? Their first date was a visit to see baby Tai Shan at the National Zoo.) During the penguin talk, the zookeeper explained that penguins mate for life, and that the zoo puts bands on the penguins to show which penguin is mated to which. The keepers, who were in on Curtis' plan, "asked for volunteers to demonstrate the banding process. I didn't want to volunteer, but Curtis insisted. They put a band on Curtis and then he interrupted them and said he had his own band for me." "Her surprise at seeing me down on one knee was priceless," Curtis said.

Nancy, 28, is a collections manager at the International Spy Museum. Curtis, 26, is a collections manager at the IBEW Museum. They live in Alexandria and will marry Oct. 10, 2010, in Leesburg, Va.

Written by Express contributor Rachel Kaufman