Maria von Trapp's hipster great grandson got married, and the NYT wedding details are hysterically awful

[EricMontreal22]

This is the funniest thing I've read in a long while.  Sigh.

The blog I first found it on (I thought it came from the Onion or something...) with pointed commentary http://postgradproblems.com/this-hipster-marriage-announcement-from-the-new-york-times-is-the-most-insufferable-yet/


 

[EricMontreal22]

And the original NYT piece with photos...  http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/fashion/weddings/nathaniel-peters-barbara-jane-sloan-wedding-sound-of-music.html?_r=0&module=Slide&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-10&action=Click&contentCollection=Weddings&slideshowTitle=A+Day+Filled+With+More+Than+a+Few+of+Their+Favorite+Things&currentSlide=10&entrySlide=1&pgtype=imageslideshow

[HorseTears]

JESUS.  I could barely finish it.  What an insufferable twat.  

[artscallion]

How can this be real? How can they be so self-unaware?

[madbrian]

artscallion said: "How can this be real? How can they be so self-unaware?"

Are you talking about these hipsters, or the people of Britain?

[artscallion]

Haha! Well, both. At least with the Britain situation, I can hope it inspires a Texit.

With these hipsters there's not much hope of anything but ukulele lessons on their honeymoon..

[darquegk]

God, it's like reading "The Secret History" all over again. At least they had the good sense to kill Bunny before Chapter 1 even began...

[Kad]

These don't seem like real people. They seem like characters in a written-by-committee young adult romance novel. And if I learned anything from those romances, it means one of these two will die tragically young and the other will have to learn to love again.

 

[EricMontreal22]

I admit if it wasn't the NYT, I would think it was the Onion. It seems telling that they and their quoted friends all describe and define each other by what they wear and read and nothing else. "Oh yeah I can tell you about my good friend the groom. He's the kinda guy who wears orange shoelaces and a bow tie when crashing his funky car on his way to Trader Joe's"

makes me almost wish that Geirg and Maria hadn't escaped the Nazis. (Too soon?)

[WhizzerMarvin]

I love the commentary from that first blogger. It just kept getting more and more absurd that by the end I had a serious case of the giggles. 

[Jane2]

Not a pretention fan!

[Jordan Catalano]

Oh, man that was amazing. And that does sound like a movie from 2001. I'm waiting for her to get elbow cancer or something like that and he travels by foot (with a donkey by his side) across Europe to find the one mystical tree in the world that he read about in a storybook that houses the elixir to cure her.

[madbrian]

I didn't know Nicholas Sparks wrote engagement announcements.

[Jordan Catalano]

That's too ridiculous for even Nicholas Sparks.

[Kad]

I refuse to believe these two have done anything more intimate than hold hands.

[EricMontreal22]

Jordan Catalano said: "Oh, man that was amazing. And that does sound like a movie from 2001. I'm waiting for her to get elbow cancer or something like that and he travels by foot (with a donkey by his side) across Europe to find the one mystical tree in the world that he read about in a storybook that houses the elixir to cure her.

 

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It could be called "Friends with Breadifits!"

[Jordan Catalano]

And like the article points out, it would have to be directed by Wes Anderson.

[gypsy101]

"I’d like to take you down to the Public Garden and have a picnic and read from P.G. Wodehouse."

Literally who would say that ever in any version of history

[Jane2]

Seriously, people can live however they like. These two just seem a little creepy to me, but they don't impact my life at all. 

[Jordan Catalano]

They are evil and must be destroyed. 

[hork]

This blog writer is way more obnoxious than the couple. Oh no, they're quirky and intellectual and the guy probably can't throw a football, haha! Douchebag.

[EricMontreal22]

Don't you go and make me feel bad for mocking rich entitled people again.  Grrr.

[darquegk]

Well, if "Whiteness" becomes an Olympic sport this year, we've got the American team picked.

[TotallyEffed]

This seemed like a joke piece written by Daniel Handler, the man behind Lemony Snicket.

[EricMontreal22]

Jane2 said: "Seriously, people can live however they like. These two just seem a little creepy to me, but they don't impact my life at all. 

 

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Nor mine, I hope.  But they are worthy of the New York Times, apparently, so I think they are worthy of being called out for being terrible, obnoxious people.  Your mileage may vary :P

[Jane2]

Well, I stopped reading the Times years ago, but I  used to read those wedding stories. I thought a lot of them were interesting and not of the norm. Lots of them were very wealthy and it was fun reading about the lavish nuptials. So, I'm not surprised to read this weird story.