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I always like to see who is the more "dominant" in the photo, i.e. are they side-by-side both facing front, or is one turned slightly away or standing further back from the camera. Is one hogging the center of the shot with the other off to the side? Which has his/her arm around the other?

What I'd love kept track of are the professions of the nupialists, but even more important, what their mommies and daddies do. So often I'm reading about a worthy-but-kinda-dull couple, wondering why they're there, and then discovering that the bride's pa is a senior VP at a drug company or an investment bank or something.

And colleges, too. How many Harvardians, and how many when to wacky, exotic places like Bennington.

I'm with everyone who asked Gothamist to include racial and ethnic stats. It always seems like it's done for novelty's sake when they throw in a "different" type of wedding.

for statistics, there's also always the really funny three part series gawker did a while back with krucoff on all this.

I love Veiled Conceit, but dude up and moved to Chicago and hardly ever posts anymore. So sad, because there were a string of weddings this winter/spring that were comedy classics.

I love/hate the weddings. It's elitist and pretentious, etc. and I know if I were to get married I wouldn't be "good enough" to get in and that disappoints me. Nothing worse than being rejected by something you want to reject first. Gr.

instead of providing interesting statistics on the state of marriage laced with social commentary, i think you should catalogue the sick, dying, and demented of this world -- perhaps a list of all the possible illnesses and their current sufferers, laced with a world-wide comprehensive cataglogue of death.

Thanks for providing such a valuable service! Presuming that I can take the suspense and wait 'til monday morning, this saves me approximately 4.5 minutes on Sunday afternoon, which I can now allocate towards actually reading the editorials in the City section, instead of just skimming the headlines.

Providing stats re: age differences, racial and ethnic demographics, and perhaps a quick tidbit highlighting other exciting things like the missing bride would truly complete the experience.

I guess this would be hard to verify... but I've always wondered about the announcements that DIDN'T make it into the Times.

This is great! How about reporting greatest age difference between spouses?

As a silly aside, I've noticed that in the online version of the paper sometimes they cut one of the couple's faces out of the photo on the main page. And they almost ALWAYS cut out the groom's face. But today, I see for the first time that they cut out the bride's face on the 4th announcement down. Now this is news, people!

anon,

Sorry to disappoint, I guess we'll see what other peoples reactions are and go from there. Veiled Conceit is doing something a little different then we are, but I see your point. In any event, your idea about an Iraq tally isn't a bad one, though unfortunately a little off topic for a blog focusing on New York City specific news and events. In the meantime you can find the US casualty numbers here and Iraq casualty numbers here.

How about stats on the number of interracial marriages? Although tough to determine without pics, I counted 2.

And anon, you're what's known in the online blog world as a "downer". Time to up that Zoloft dosage.

The wedding section is without a doubt the lamest part of the times. Its dissapointing that you have decided to cover it for us. How about you start by not covering it at all. Those with an itch for the pathetic cheese can already go to veiled conceit at http://nytimesweddings.blogspot.com/

Perhaps instead you could give us a weekly tally of people killed in places like Darfur and Iraq.