Dilbert's creator, Scott Adams, weds aboard yacht

SAN FRANCISCO — Scott Adams called his weekend wedding aboard a yacht in the San Francisco Bay "tremendous," but said he doesn't expect to win a dance competition anytime soon.

Adams, 49, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, and Shelly Miles, 37, were married Saturday evening on the Commodore Galaxy yacht by the ship's captain. About 150 guests attended.

It's the first marriage for Adams and the second for Miles. They met at his health club four years ago.

Miles has two children, a 6-year-old son and an 8-year-old daughter, and both participated in the ceremony, Adams said.

"We included the kids in the vows because we're making a new family unit," Adams said Tuesday, reached by phone at his home in Dublin, Calif. "The kids had to promise to pretend to enjoy my jokes."

Adams said he and Miles exchanged rings and gave the children family medallions.

The couple also took dance lessons in the months leading up to the wedding, Adams said. He chronicled his anxiety on his Web journal.

"This wedding has taken more planning than the invasion of Iraq. And yet there is still one guaranteed failure built into the plan: the first dance," he wrote in an entry dated Saturday.

The first song was Keith Urban's "You're the Only One," and it was "not as embarrassing as I thought it would be," he said Tuesday. "We had actual moves."

On Friday, the couple, Miles' children and both sets of parents will head to the western Caribbean for a Disney cruise honeymoon, Adams said.

There will be no vacation for Dilbert, though. Adams said he has a week's worth of comic strips ready.

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