April 21, 2005

Your Wedding Sucks

If you’re not reading Veiled Conceit regularly, you should be. It’s a blog with a great niche: every week, it makes fun of the New York Times’ Weddings and Celebrations page, more than anything else mocking the snobbery and unintentional ridiculousness of such proceedings.

This week the author, known only as “Zach,” gives us Troy and Leanne, a couple that finally married this month after a long courtship in which, as described in the Times announcement, there were numerous times when he didn’t call her after first dates, until their mutual friend intervened.

Well in telling this story, Zach actually went to the trouble of creating an elaborate fake blog for the groom, purportedly written by Troy and complete with fake dates and timestamps dating back to 1999, where “Troy” describes the entire courtship. The real Troy hasn’t sued him- not yet, anyway. Though Zach does get bonus points for including references to Elian Gonzalez and the Y2K problem in the “1999” posts- even though Blogspot didn’t even exist for public consumption until two years later.

Posted by Stephen Silver at April 21, 2005 01:02 AM
Comments

I've loved this blog since I found it a few months ago. It can be so cruel...and you'll find yourself wondering if it's too mean, esp. when you find your friends the subject of the ridicule. But the whole section's kind of ridiculous on its own--Zach's just running with it...

Posted by: Esther at April 21, 2005 10:23 AM
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