Merrifield's family and friends from Texas and Bosco's contingent from Kentucky, as well as guests from California, where Merrifield served an LDS mission, had flown to Salt Lake City on Friday, Aug. 19, for the Saturday, Aug. 20, event.

They gathered at Liberty Park for pre-wedding festivities, eating pizza and throwing Frisbees, laughing, joking and having a good old time until somebody mentioned the words, "marriage license."

Suddenly, they realized they forgot that detail and it was 9:15 on Friday night.

Several ideas were put into motion. A family member even called an LDS official in Las Vegas to see if the couple could wed in that temple, since Las Vegas has a 24-hour marriage license service.

Then family friend Amy Rae Mullins and Jeremy Bosco, the bride's brother, decided instead to go to Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s house to plead for help.

It was after 10 p.m. by the time they convened at the Governor's Mansion, ignoring a warning from the groom's mother, Skyler, that, "I'm not bailing anybody out of jail."

They pressed a buzzer at the gate and roused a security guard who said the governor was not at home. Just then, Huntsman and his wife, Mary Kaye, drove up to the gate and noticed the commotion.

After Mullins ran to the car and excitedly explained the emergency, Huntsman invited the group inside. He asked his constituent affairs director, Mike Mower, to solve the problem. Mower called Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon, who gave him the home telephone numbers of County Clerk Sherrie Swensen and Chief Deputy Clerk Jason Yocom, who agreed to meet the couple at the County Government Center on Saturday morning. They got the license in time for the 2 p.m. wedding, had a great reception and left the next day for their Caribbean cruise honeymoon.

Side note: The last four digits of Mower's home telephone number are 5683, which spells "love" on the telephone pad.

The Bermuda Triangle? A number of listeners were stymied when KALL-AM, now calling itself Hot Ticket-AM, released, with no explanation or fanfare, veteran talk show host Tom Barberi, dubbed the "Voice of Reason," after more than 30 years with the station.

Now, Barberi's replacement, John Wright, has been unceremoniously dumped from the program. His morning slot has been replaced with a syndicated sports show.

With allegations in the past that the station's owner, Clear Channel Communications, fires radio personalities who don't follow the conservative party line while giving their commentary, some folks have wondered if that was Wright's fate.

Others say that Clear Channel, called by critics the Wal-Mart of the television and radio industry, simply likes to get rid of a paycheck whenever it can.

Whatever the reason, its decisions don't seem to be working. The station's latest Arbitron rating is 0.05, the lowest in its history.

We may never know the answer. Program director Jason Wilmot won't return telephone calls.