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Facebooking about your wedding. Good or bad idea?

October

Lauren Estes, a 22-year-old from Plano Texas, might get the Mean Girl of the Year award for using Facebook to fret over her small diamond engagement ring.

Rather than consulting friends in private, she did the digital-age equivalent of plastering a sign on a corner lamp post: she turned to the Facebook Wedding application.

“My ring is less than half a carat. I was kind of freaking out,” she told the Dallas Morning News. “I posted a question saying, ‘What do you guys think?’ because I was genuinely upset about it. Within two or three days, I had over 150 hits from people who gave me their opinion.”

Subjecting the love of your life to public humiliation? Eek. Hopefully her fiancee or any of his buddies isn’t a Facebook friend.

But some 20-somethings are using the Facebook Wedding application for more innocuous wedding purposes, such as seating arrangements (Now youÂ have time to prepare for sitting next to your pal’s party-too-hard former college roomie) and “Save-the-Date” announcements (No more dumb snail mail cards urging you not to plan anything for some random June weekend in 2010.)

Yet until grandma and grandpa get their own Facebook profiles, don’t expect the eradication of traditional invites anytime soon.

(AP Photo)

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm by Theresa Juva. | Email This Post

3 Responses to “Facebooking about your wedding. Good or bad idea?”

Laurel Babcock October 21st, 2008 at 5:37 pm
“Genuinely upset” over the size of her engagement ring. Then posts it on Facebook? Oh yeah, I see this marriage lasting….
Stacy A October 21st, 2008 at 5:48 pm
wow, that’s a bit much to put online. how can you complain, if you are really in love and that’s all that matters? i hate to say it, but all these online networks have made us all a bit showy and materialistic. can we get back to what’s relevant?
Larry Vollmer October 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
If I was a betting man, and I am, I’d love to drop a few bucks on this marriage lasting under 2 years.

I wonder what the oddsmakers would put the spread at.

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