Cinnaminson Couple Celebrates Leap Day Anniversary

Sue Dell-Priscoli and her husband Mike were married in 1992. Today, they celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary.

“We really only have one every four years,” Sue said, laughing.

The Cinnaminson couple was married on Leap Day—Feb. 29, 20 years ago today. And every four years, the two make it special.

“We usually try to take a nice, big trip,” Sue said.

Sue and her husband went to Hawaii twice and Las Vegas once over the years. And the other years of their anniversary?

“We don’t really do anything,” said Sue, a hairdresser at in Cinnaminson.

Sue and Mike met through friends 24 years ago. Sue, originally from Hainesport, was living with a friend in an apartment in Berlin. Sue’s roommate’s sister was dating Mike’s brother at the time and introduced the two. They dated for two years before getting engaged. Two years after that, they married.

And it was Mike’s decision to get married on Leap Day.

“My husband picked it,” Sue said. “He thought it would be cool to have a different anniversary.”

Sue’s mother swears her daughter said she'd never get married in the winter.

“I don’t really remember saying that!” Sue said. “He just said it would be different and I went with it.”

For their honeymoon, the couple took a cruise to the Caribbean, with stops in St. Thomas and Barbados. And while on the cruise, they met three other couples that got married the same day they did.

“We’ve even kept in touch with them over the years,” Sue said.

One couple is from North Jersey and Sue and Mike visited them years ago. They keep in touch on Facebook now.

This year, Mike won’t be home for their anniversary. He’s a welder in Philadelphia and he’s away on a business trip. But the two still want to take a trip somewhere. They are planning a Punta Cana vacation later this year to coincide with a family wedding there.

The couple have two kids—a 19-year-old daughter Jaima who goes to James Madison University, and a son, Nick, who’s 17 and is a junior at .