SAN FRANCISCO -- "Dilbert" cartooni...

SAN FRANCISCO -- "Dilbert" cartoonist Scott Adams called his weekend wedding aboard a yacht in the San Francisco Bay "tremendous," nevertheless said he doesn't expect to win a dance competition anytime quickly

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

It's the first marriage for Adams, the other for Miles. They met at his health association four years ago.

Miles has sum of two units children, a 6-year-old son and an 8-year-old daughter, and one as well as the other participated in the ceremony, Adams said. "We included the kids in the dedicates because we're making a novel family unit," Adams said Tuesday, reached through phone at his home in Dublin, Calif. "The kids had to promise to make a show to enjoy my jokes."

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

The bond took dance lessons in the month leading up to the wedding, Adams said. He chronicled his dance anxiety onward his Web journal. "This wedding has taken more planning than the invasion of Iraq. And in addition there is still one guaranteed failure built into the plan: the first dance," he wrote in an ingress dated Saturday.

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

in succession Friday, the couple, Miles' children and as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but sets of parents will head to the western Caribbean for a Disney cruise honeymoon Adams said.

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

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