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What do you think of this engagement announcement?

posted 1 year ago in Paper
poll: What do you think of this engagement announcement?
It's bad. I would be embarrassed to submit that to the paper : (20 votes)

43 %

I think it's hilarious! I want to do something like that : (4 votes)

9 %

I get it is meant to be funny and I admire their creativity but I wouldn't do it : (21 votes)

45 %

Other : (2 votes)

4 %

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Ahone September 19, 2011

Is it bad etiquette to write something like this up? Is it funny? Tacky? Creative? I'm just curious to know what everyone thinks of it.

http://www.print2webcorp.com/news/portlandme/celebrations/20090111/p1_a3.htm

1 year ago

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egb January 2010

While it's probably very funny to those who know them, I don't think it's as funny for the public, who don't know them and may not laugh at all the inside jokes..

1 year ago

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KatyElle

Reads kind of inside-jokey I guess? I was reading it like "What do her degrees have to do with getting engaged?"

1 year ago

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smileyd August 10, 2011 Dartmouth, NS

I agree, its supposed to be funny, but it doesn't read that way.

Is this for real?

1 year ago

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glaca June 23, 2012

just makes her sound like she's marrying "down" and could be taken very badly. Just not a fan of that one.

1 year ago

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Ahone September 19, 2011

@smileyd: Yeah, it's for real. Personally it makes me feel like they both think very highly of themselves.. or at least she does.

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biscuit July 30, 2011

I'm all for humor, but this doesn't make me laugh. With some editing, it could have been humorous and appropriate, but I really don't think it is now. That bride needs a lesson in how to write self deprecating humor (you know, the kind others would also find funny).

1 year ago

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CharlotteMJ November 2012 Knoxville, TN

omg. lol. bbq. this is amazing.

1 year ago

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KatNYC2011 September 24, 2011 London, UK (american expat)

This feels really obnoxious and self-indulgent to me.

Does NOT make me think highly of the couple at all.

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MissNoodles September 14, 2011 Winnipeg, Canada

UH... I dont' think they wrote that themselves. It sounds like a bitter frenemy submitted that to the newspaper to me.

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NauticalBride2011 August 27, 2011

I just feel secondhand embarassment for them.

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DeathByDesign February 18, 2012 Lives in Ontario, married in Quebec

It might be funny for them, and they paid for it, so whatever lol.

1 year ago

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mistyeyes August 18, 2012

I get its suppose to be funny but I agree ony close friends would find it funny. I wouldn't send it out as an annoucement and definitely not in a newspaper. Hmm I could see it as maybe a bachelorette party invitation.

1 year ago

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SerenaSF October 15, 2011 San Francisco, Wedding in Mexico

I get what they are going for and maybe if I knew them in person I would feel differently, but it came off as really obnoxious and self absorbed to me.

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