Wedding Bell Blues

As part of my job, I post the engagement/wedding/anniversary announcements on the Courier-Post website on Thursdays. It’s a nice change of pace from my usual task list of:

Download ads, schedule ads, track down missing ads.

It also is slowly eroding my “Marriage is an outdated societal institution that exists to turn a profit” attitude of the last five years.

What cracks me up about the listings is all too often you can tell whose family wrote the announcement.

For example:

Announcement has been made of the engagement of John Doe and Jane Smith, both of Anytown, NJ.

Jane is the daughter of Rob and Mary Smith. She was Little Miss Anytown in 1992, graduated first in her class at Anytown High, and went on to graduate summa cum laude with a degree in chemical engineering from Anytown University. She’s currently a senior chemical engineer at AnytownChemCo and spends her spare time working in Anytown Soup Kitchen or playing with her gorgeous nieces Emmaleeigh and Soffieyiah.

John works with cars.

Best of luck with those inlaws, John.

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