Times Weddings by the Numbers
It's birdseed throwing or bubble blowing time with this weekend's NY Times wedding announcements.
Total Number of Weddings: 12 (including Vows column)
Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 1
Youngest Bride: 24
Oldest Bride: 48
Youngest Groom: 26
Oldest Groom: 56
Biggest Age Difference: 8 years
Number of Couples Where Bride and Groom Are the Same Age: 3 (ages 27, 36, and 37)
Number of Cornell Graduates Married: 2
Number of Penn State Graduates Married: 2
Number of Occidental College Graduates Married: 2 (same couple)
Number of University of North Florida Graduates Married: 2 (same couple)
And the rest: Wake Forest, NYU, University of Rhode Island, H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, SUNY College at New Paltz, Davidson, Emory, University of Pennsylvania, SUNY Binghamton, McGill, Tufts, U. Michigan, Washington University and Yale
Number of Weddings With Couple Photographs, print edition: 7 (not including the Vows)
Number of Weddings With Couple Photographs, online: 4 (not including the Vows)
Number of Weddings with Bride-Only Photos: 0
Number of Weddings Without Photos: 4
Number of Grooms with Glasses in Photos: 1 (the two grooms in the same-sex marriage both have glasses - and great smiles)
Number of Brides with Glasses in Photos: 0
Number of No-Teeth Smiles in Photos: 7
Number of Bald or Nearly Bald Grooms in Photos: 0
Number of Couples Whose First Meeting Was During Junior Year of High School: 1
Number of Proposals That Incorporated The Theme Music From The Television Show, 24: 1
Number of Weddings At Steiner Studios At The Brooklyn Navy Yard: 1
Number of Grooms Whose Father Ran For Mayor of New Orleans with a "sole focus on the need to obtain a gorilla for the Audubon Zoo": 1
Photograph by nycjournal on Flickr
