Boston Couple's Italy Wedding Put in Jeopardy After Pet Dog Eats Groom’s Passport
Donato Frattaroli and fianceé Magda Mazri are due to fly out to Italy to get married on Friday
A South Boston couple’s destination wedding hangs in the balance after their pet dog ate one of their passports.
Husband-to-be Donato Frattaroli was left in an unexpected predicament last Thursday, when he discovered his golden retriever Chickie had chewed up several pages of his passport — days before his Aug. 31 wedding ceremony in Italy, reported WCVB in Boston.
Frattaroli found out what his mischievous dog had been up to when he returned home after visiting city hall with his fiancée Magda Mazri to collect their marriage license, added the outlet.
“I’m just a little stressed,” Frattaroli recalled to WCVB. “Luckily, Congressman (Stephen) Lynch’s office and Sen. (Ed) Markey’s office have been super responsive. They’ve been in touch, at least with me and the State Department, to try to expedite things and help me get a new passport.”
“Keep my fingers crossed and, hopefully, everything will work itself out,” he added.
Frattaroli and his fiancée are scheduled to fly out to Italy for their wedding on Friday, reported WCVB.
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The engaged couple’s 18-month-old pooch chewed up the first four pages of Frattaroli’s passport, along with a stamp from Mexico, — where the pair got engaged — they shared with NBC Boston.
"It was like every important page,” bride-to-be Mazri told the outlet. “Like all of his personal information — completely torn up, his picture page was torn up, the barcode on the back of the passport was torn up."
Despite the disastrous mishap, Mazri insisted that Chickie was a "very good dog,” adding “She's not a house destroyer.”
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Frattaroli added that “ultimately it really comes down to the State Department and the passport office” to help him sort out a passport replacement before their impending wedding.
On Monday, it appeared as if the Boston Passport Agency had come through for the couple after Frattaroli told the Boston Herald that he was traveling to an appointment to pick up a new passport.
"I'm not allowing myself to even think of Plan B. There's no other option for me," Mazri told NBC Boston on Friday. "We are going to Italy on Friday one way or the other."
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