Did you read last week's New York Times Sunday's Style section? Of course you did! And, knowing you as we do, you paid particular notice to the Wedding/Celebration section, particularly to the announcement of Ikeolu Gbadegesin and Oreoluwa Adetunji Adeyemi's nuptials, where you especially noticed the part describing Gbadegesin's academic honors.

If not, let us refresh your memory.

Ms. Gbadegesin, 29, was, until May, a senior international lawyer at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a government agency that provides grants to poor countries. She will begin working next month as an associate in the London office of the New York law firm White & Case. She received bachelor’s and law degrees from Harvard and graduated magna cum laude from both schools.

Ah, another high-performing Harvard law school graduate finds love, or so it seems. 'But wait!' warns a tipster. Gbadegesin's academic achievements might not be quite as impressive as they appear.

For, as you undoubtedly already know, there was a correction issued this past Sunday regarding Gbadegesin's wedding announcement from the week before. And, as it turns out, someone (perhaps an old Harvard law school nemesis!) took issue with the "magna cum laude" claim.

Writes the Times:

Because of an editing error, a report last Sunday about the marriage of Bosede Ikeolu Gbadegesin and Oreoluwa Adetunji Adeyemi referred incorrectly to the academic honor given to the bride by Harvard, from which she holds both bachelor’s and law degrees. Although she did indeed graduate magna cum laude as an undergraduate, she did not do so as a law student.

But what was the precise nature of that "editing error?" we wondered. After all, it's not particularly shocking to learn that overachieving types pad their wedding notices in the hopes of being one of the few, the proud, the elite couples selected for publication.

More suspicious, however, is the timeliness with which the New York Times appended their correction. Which raises the question, how did this particular oversight come to the Times' attention so quickly?

Was it, as our tipster hypothesizes, "due to the [responsiveness] of a university registrar or a disgruntled classmate? Did the groom have pangs of doubt? Was it (less interestingly) a typo that the NYT only caught after the fact?"

Unfortunately, we may never know.

In fact, at this time, all we can say for sure is that (a) Ikeolu Gbadegesin lied, (b) Ikeolu Gbadegesin got caught, and (c) Ikeolu Gbadegesin (who most certainly did not graduate magna cum laude from Harvard law school) is heretofore to be known as Ikeolu Gbadegesin Adeyemi.

Oh, and that if she ever wrote (or plagiarized!) a book about herself,* it would probably be titled, "How Ikeolu Gbadegesin Got Kissed, Got Married and Got a Life, All While Graduating Without Distinction."

Has a rather nice ring to it, don't you think?

*Like another Harvard phony we know!"