Speaking of weddings, here's a New York story out of love, symbols and the law. A guy named Sheldon decides that the first declaration of love needs a ritual as much as wedding . . . and ends up getting escorted from the Empire State Building by police. Excerpt below; full story in the latest Time Out New York.

See, Sheldon did more than just gaze into her eyes and say the words. He needed arts and crafts to express his feelings. He wanted to make a heart. “There are rituals for weddings and anniversaries,” he explains innocently, “but nothing for the first time you say ‘I love you.’ So I made one up.” In short, he crafted a wooden box, filled it with clay and wire, and led an unknowing Diane to the 102nd floor, where he planned to put it all together—unaware that the process would look exactly like assembling a bomb.