Second marriage: John Partilla and Carol Anne Riddell

 A New York couple is causing quite a brouhaha after their wedding profile ran in the New York Times' Vows section this weekend. Why the controversy? The couple - a New York City television reporter and a high-powered ad executive - told the paper how their love blossomed while they were each married to someone else.Carol Anne Riddell and John Partilla met in 2006 in a pre-kindergarten classroom. They both had children attending the same Upper West Side school. They also both had spouses

That's right. They were each in long-term marriages, and each have children. In fact, it was the children who brought them together, sort of. You see, Riddell and Partilla met at their kids' school. So, while the other mommies and daddies are having parent teacher conferences, it seems Riddell and Partilla may have been having a little, um, conference of their own.

The two - who, along with their spouses, were good friends before romance blossomed. That's right, the four of them had dinners together, attended parties and hit the road for family vacations, along with their children.

They insist that the relationship was platonic, at first, yet admit to being instantly struck by one another. Eventually, they decided to leave their respective spouses - and, in turn, their children - to become an official couple.

They finalized their divorces this year. “I will always feel terribly about the pain I caused my ex-husband,” said Ms. Riddell, 44 and working freelance. “It was not what I ever would have wished on him.” Or on her children.

“My kids are going to look at me and know that I am flawed and not perfect, but also deeply in love,” she said. “We’re going to have a big, noisy, rich life, with more love and more people in it.”

Partilla joins Clear Channel from Time Warner, where he led Time Warner’s Global Media Group in its mission to work with major advertisers and help drive the growth of advertising and marketing revenue across all of Time Warner’s businesses. Prior to overseeing Global Media at Time Warner, John was President at Young & Rubicam, and founder and Chief Executive Officer of Brand Buzz. Launched in 2000, Brand Buzz is an “agency within an agency” at Young & Rubicam designed to provide solutions for smaller advertisers. Partilla spent eighteen years at Young & Rubicam and in that time amassed an extensive roster of strategic sales and brand development experience, having worked across many of the agency’s core accounts.