After first appearing on Jeopardy!, then celebrating a rather public engagement, and now having their wedding featured in the New York Times, Saint John teacher Maryanne Lewell and her husband Michael Townes are ready to "stop talking about ourselves."

"We are pretty ordinary people. We are just two regular teachers that have our entire lives ahead," said Lewell. "It's just the way we met that is interesting to people."

That being said, Lewell said she's glad she could share her wedding with so many people through the article.

"We are really glad that we have this souvenir of our special day," she said.

First Canadian teacher on game show

Lewell was a semifinalist and the first Canadian teacher to make it to the popular game show's Teachers Tournament in 2013.

She lost her first round by $1 but she did end up getting engaged to fellow contestant Townes, a teacher from South Carolina.

"We both happen to be kind of nerds, and into the same kind of thing, and with a weird sense of humour, and obviously both smart enough to get on Jeopardy!," Townes told CBC News after their engagement in 2015.

Townes said the couple recently got married in St. Andrews. They waited two years for the big day in order to allow the groom's sister to marry first, in 2016.

Townes said there was a lot of buzz around the wedding, especially because people already knew of their engagement from a CBC story.

Then Jeopardy! shared a picture of them for Valentine's Day on Instagram. That's when the New York Times called to propose a feature article for its wedding section, she said.

Maryanne Lewell was a semifinalist and the first Canadian teacher to make it to Jeopardy's Teachers Tournament in 2013, where she met her husband, Michael Townes. (Jeopardy Productions, Inc.)

The section previously featured stories about a variety of wedding couples, from a regular letter carrier to the Donald Trump Jr. wedding, she said.

In the end, she was interviewed by a writer from the Times over the phone, and a local reporter and photographer followed them through their wedding.

"It was an interesting process to see how they worked," she said.

Emigrating to Canada

And yet, they also wondered: "People aren't tired of us yet?"

"We are not the first Jeopardy! couple to meet and to get married, we are not even the first teachers to have done this," she said.

"There was a couple from the teachers tournament right before ours."

The next step in their relationship will be moving to the same city.

Lewell is waiting on a visa application to move to South Carolina.

"We are married now and we'd like to move on with that," she said.