Hashtags and Retweets at Weddings: Sign of the Times?

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<p>Talk amongst yourselves :-)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/fashion/digital-weddings-2-0-hashtags-and-retweets.html?src=recg&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Recommended&pgtype=article”>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/fashion/digital-weddings-2-0-hashtags-and-retweets.html?src=recg&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Recommended&pgtype=article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I actually don’t care- to each their own. I haven’t really noticed a cell phone problem at the weddings I’ve been to lately, but then again most of the weddings I go to are small and intimate. You are surrounded by people you actually want to spend time with and the phone becomes secondary. </p>

<p>I’ve never heard of a hashtag wedding. </p>

<p>Side note, I take issue with this rewriting of history:

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<p>Oh please. I have a program from 1948 describing how to put on a “proper” wedding. Their tips would be almost unrecognizable even ten years ago before social media hit. Let alone from your “grandmother’s grandmother” time where weddings were almost always held in living rooms with just a handful of people there. </p>