TODAY Show Tells Story of Two Danbury Couples United at Stew Leonard's

DANBURY, CT — Over 100 couples have met and married at various Stew Leonard's stores in the company's nearly 50-year history, and the TODAY show recently interviewed five of those couples. Two of those couples met at the Danbury store.

According to the TODAY website, Anthony Bonacci and Marlene Caetano met when she was a cashier and he was a bagger in 2003. Caetano kept putting it off at first, but finally agreed to go out with Bonacci. The couple married in 2006.

"We finally set a night to go out, and he later told me that he was going to stop asking if I didn’t commit to a night," said Caetano according to Today.

Since marrying, the couple lost a combined 170 pounds and welcomed a son into the world in 2011. Both still with the company, Anthony works as the assistant manager of the seafood department at the Danbury store and Marlene works as a benefits administrator.

Nicole Manca and Art Weiss met in the early 90s at the Danbury store, when she was a cashier and he was a cook. The two developed a friendship quickly before Art asked her on a date and surprised her with Blue Man Group tickets in New York City. The two later engaged in the big city.

Referred to as the "Brady Bunch" of Stew Leonard's, Art had three kids from his first marriage and Nicole has two from hers. All of them except for one have worked at the store, and the couple still holds positions there.

You can read more about the couple and others on the TODAY show website.

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