Pop-ping the question! Soda judge marries feuding couple

HE SAYS/SHE SAYS: Robert Fisler and Jennifer Shappirio, outside the courthouse where they wed yesterday, differ on the soda ban. He’s con, she’s pro. (David McGlynn)

They should toast the wedding with a Big Gulp instead of champagne.

The judge who blocked Mayor Bloomberg from banning big sugary drinks yesterday married a couple who squabbled over the soda saga just moments before saying, “I do.”

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling Jr., ducked reporters’ questions about overturning the ban, but couldn’t avoid the topic when Robert Fisler and Jennifer Shappirio arrived in his courtroom to get hitched.

The Rumson, NJ,, couple said their debate was ignited when they were told at the marriage license bureau that Tingling, whom they knew to be the “soda-ban judge,” would be presiding over their ceremony.

“I think it was a little ridiculous right from the start. I don’t think the mayor should be telling people what you can or cannot drink,” Fisler, 36, a dock worker, told The Post.

But Shappirio, 35, an operations manager, retorted, “I think they should have the ban.

“We have an obese country, and it’s going to go on and on, then we have to pay for their health care.”

“We argue all the time,” Shappirio noted.

When Tingling interrupted them to conduct the wedding, Fisler said, “Good decision, by the way.”

Tingling replied, “Everyone has their own opinion. That’s why we have the courts.”

Tingling then asked Fisler if he promised to “argue with her and make up with her,” and Shappirio if she vowed “to allow him to think he’s right even when you know he’s wrong, as long as you live.”

At the end of the ceremony, Fisler quipped, “I’m gonna get a 40-ounce soda!”

“Oh, my!” Tingling chuckled.

Tingling, ironically, is a diabetic who eats healthy and regularly works out, friends said.

“Sugar is poison to the judge,” said attorney Ravi Batra, who noted Tingling inherited diabetes from his judge dad.