December 5, 2003
Wishing to Be Dead...Or Married
For most people, being mentioned in the New York Times is a dream, as it signifies having made it in some way. The Post starts off its article about how the Times mistakenly published an obituary for a very much living woman (Katharine Sergava, ballet dancer and Greta Garbo's Hollywood "rival") with, "Many status-conscious New Yorkers dream of having their obituary run in The New York Times." Gothamist was amused because the only other democratic/selectocratic way to be mentioned, without infamy or some new patent or restaurant to speak of, is to have your wedding announcement run in the Times.
How to submit a wedding to the Times. And Times wedding cachet was captured well by Sex and the City with two prime examples: Finding your ex's announcement and Charlotte's maniacal drive for a good announcement picture.
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Strange, I didn't see any requirements regarding graduating from an Ivy calibre school.
I guess it's just "happenstance" that they all do...
A great wedding blog talks about the times and its archaic wedding pages:
www.planetgordon.com
I loved it and the rest of the site is great!!!
I'm betting on the international fugitive route, though I suppose that falls under "infamy".
And tying weddings and obits together, there's an obit in today's paper about a woman who was famous for making and selling wedding dresses.
I had the unfortunate experience of reading my ex's wedding announcement a few years back. Yuck. It was one of the ones that featured the barfingly cute story of how he proposed to her, so I had the pleasure of reading all about that too. Several friends who had also seen it called me that day to make sure I was okay.
I second the vote for PlanetGordon.com -- go check it out if you haven't yet!