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<p>The leading legal gossip blog analyzes the announcements, too. They call it “Legal Eagle Wedding Watch.”</p>

<p>I confess that part of the fun for me is imagining the ethnic interaction at the reception. He’s an Orthodox Jew and her family is all Gujarati Hindus: what will the conversation be like between Auntie Hadass and Uncle Manooj?</p>

<p>I have to further confess that I went on a blind date my first year of law school with a guy who turned out to be a Princeton summa undergrad, returned Peace Corps volunteer, and was finishing his PhD in theoretical physics at Harvard. When I got his backstory, some part of my brain went: “Ping! We would totally make the NY Times wedding announcements.” (We stayed just friends.)</p>

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<p>In the most limited sense, nothing, of course. They don’t charge to print those. Circulation on the Sunday Times would plummet if they weren’t there. It’s the women’s sports page, and what passes for comics in the Times.</p>

<p>In any broader sense, as anyone reading this thread will surely appreciate, hundreds of thousands of dollars (at least) and years (generations, preferably) of blood, sweat, and tears to amass the necessary “points”.</p>