This is an easy one, though not for the obvious reason. Though Susan Billheimer, Ben Allen and I share the same good taste in wedding venues, as evidenced by the fact that I was married at the same club back in 1997, this is an easy one for a far simpler fact: they look fantastic in all of their wedding pictures.

On November 8, 1997, Maya and I got married at the Friends' Meeting House in Dupont Circle. It's the one across from Restaurant Nora that you pass a million times but never get a chance to stop in. After the ceremony, we all boarded a trolley and drove a couple of blocks to the Washington Club, #15 Dupont Circle, yet another historic building we all drive by daily.

Built between 1900 and 1902, the Washington Club was originally the home of the owner of the Chicago Tribune. (If you went to the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, that would be her.) It's also worth noting that the Medill/Patterson family commissioned McKim, Mead and White as their architect. They're best known, sadly, for a building that no longer exists, New York's Pennsylvania Station, without a doubt the most beautiful train station ever built in America. (If you're thinking of that ratty place that currently houses AMTRAK and the L.I.R.R., think again!)

It's hard to miss any building built by McKim, Mead and White, probably because the firm operated in one of the great, if not the greatest, eras of American construction. Let's face it--building like this just don't get made anymore.

And yet for all it's beauty, the Washington Club quietly sits tucked off Dupont Circle, hardly even a landmark to anyone sitting across the street. If you were to say to someone, meet me at the Dupont fountain, they'd understand completely. But the Washington Club, not 200 feet away? Not so much. Perhaps that's for the better; it remains a hidden secret in a city with few left.

We chose it for our wedding in 1997 for the same reasons, I'm sure, that Ben and Susan did. It is both regal on the outside and yet intimate once you step through the doors. One thing is certain, though: there are few ballrooms that photograph as beautifully as the one at the Washington Club. From the moment Susan and Ben took the dance floor, it was if we were all transported, like Owen Wilson in "Midnight in Paris," back to a grander time. Add to this mix the imposing and colossal Cathedral of St. Matthew, the most beautiful of all churches in Washington, and I'd say these guys know how to pick 'em.

Truth be told, it also helps when you have someone who looks like Susan (and Ben!) in your photographs. Whether stuffed like an accordion into her father's Mercedes convertible, or standing tall in front of a mirror, Susan beams in every picture she takes.

Like I said, easy.

To see a mini gallery of pictures from the wedding of Susan Billheimer and Ben Allen, click HERE.

Take care, Matt