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"Few wedding rituals are more mysterious than getting your announcement into the veritable fortress known as The New York Times. A new site just may make breaking in a little easier. Find out why. WeddingCredential.com is a search engine specifically for the last 3,910 wedding announcements in the paper. Type in any word you wish, and you&amp;amp;#8217;ll find out how many and what percent of wedding announcements use that word. Plus, you&amp;amp;#8217;ll get a list of the couples whose announcements included that search term. For instance, &amp;amp;#8220;editor&amp;amp;#8221; appears in about 7.5 percent of all of the announcements (hey, that called up Susan Cernek&amp;amp;#8217;s!). But if my chosen profession (or my parents&amp;amp;#8217;) involved the word &amp;amp;#8220;medical,&amp;amp;#8221; my odds of getting chosen to be featured just may be higher, since 17.3 percent of the recent announcements included that word. &amp;amp;#8220;Housewife,&amp;amp;#8221; on the other hand, has been in zero (that&amp;amp;#8217;s right, zero) announcements. In case you&amp;amp;#8217;re wondering, the word &amp;amp;#8220;homemaker&amp;amp;#8221; appears in about as many. So which other words up your chance of getting featured? Try &amp;amp;#8220;executive&amp;amp;#8221; (about 20 percent), &amp;amp;#8220;director&amp;amp;#8221; (a whopping 40 percent!), and &amp;amp;#8220;president&amp;amp;#8221; (about 36 percent). And for colleges, no surprise, but Harvard gets nearly 12 percent, Columbia&amp;amp;#8217;s at 15 percent, and Princeton, Yale, and Brown get about 7 percent a piece. My own alma mater, Brandeis University, gets 1.2 percent--I&amp;amp;#8217;ll take it! Not an ivy leaguer? Not a (huge) problem: The words &amp;amp;#8220;cum laude,&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;magna cum laude,&amp;amp;#8221; and &amp;amp;#8220;summa cum laude&amp;amp;#8221; appear in 26, 12, and 5 percent of announcements, respectively. And just for fun, the word &amp;amp;#8220;freak&amp;amp;#8221; actually shows up in nine announcements! Confession: I submitted an announcement for my and Paul&amp;amp;#8217;s wedding, but alas, we weren&amp;amp;#8217;t chosen. I&amp;amp;#8217;ll blame it on my late-in-the-game submission, two weeks before instead of the recommended six weeks before, the presence of many flyaway hairs in our photo, and the fact that our eyebrows aren&amp;amp;#8217;t lined up, as the guidelines required. Are you planning on submitting your announcement to The Times? Will you play around with this new search engine to see how the words in your would-be write-up fare? Challenge: Type in a word you wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t expect to appear (like my freak example above), and post in the comments what the results are! More About Wedding Announcements Oops! The New York Times Accidentally Publishes a Not-So-Nice Editor&amp;amp;#8217;s Note in a Wedding Announcement Will Ferrell Pops Up in a Couple&amp;amp;#8217;s New York Times Wedding Announcement I Love This: Epic Wedding Announcement More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Top photo: Chris Clinton; bottom photo: Travis Huggett Photography"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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