Some of the more prominent examples:
Katie Baker of Grantland (and Yale) described her ranking system in the fantastic article Matrimonial Moneyball, and she periodically reviews the weddings section in her Wedded Blitz column
Above the Law’s Legal Eagle Wedding Watch focuses on announcements involving lawyers
Gawker had Altarcations (not updated since 2010)
The now-defunct Wedding Credential database let you filter announcements based on certain terms, including colleges, but didn’t give any historical context, and was limited to ~3,000 articles instead of our 60,000
The Atlantic Wire tried to analyze your odds of getting into the weddings section
Sarah Jessica Parker’s character on Sex and the City refers to the weddings section as “the single woman’s sports pages.” Here’s the transcript of the scene
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