PDA and TMI

One of my favorite blogs is Veiled Conceit, which chews up and spits out the goofy, pretentious and very entertaining weekly New York Times wedding announcements, where the hoi polloi of the city that never sleeps tell the rest of us: “Hands off.”

Of course, another weekly pasttime is reading the News-Gazette’s Engagement and Wedding announcements page. Perusing it yesterday, I wondered how Mr. or Ms. Veiled Conceit would handle the Hayward-Rasmussen installment. (For the uninitiated, The N-G engagement notices include the names of the future bride and groom, their wedding date, their educational background, their parents’ names, where they’re from, and where they work.)

It wasn’t the text that was so odd — although one wonders what the point of a 2-year, three-month engagement is — but what GRABBED our attention was the photo that accompanied it. Usually, these photos involve a cheesy pose designed to show off the bride-to-be’s new bauble. Instead, Thomas Rasmussen and Deborah Hayward elected to submit a photo of them lip-locked — with his shark tooth necklace stealing the show.

Wonder what the wedding photos will look like. Guess we’ll have to wait till November 2007.