The tradition of having your wedding announced in the Times Sunday Style section is a long and venerated one. Not to minimize the whole finding of one's soul mate aspect, but for many, the announcement is reason they're getting married. So it had to have chafed pretty badly for one couple when the husband's employer, a shop known for its intelligence but apparently not so much its sensitivity, ruined the whole thing.

Until last week, the bridegroom, 33, worked at D. E. Shaw & Company, an investment and technology development firm in New York, where he was a developer of software for trading and investing on stock exchanges.

It's one thing to layoff ten percent of your staff but when you fuck with the Times announcement, you go too far. This could've waited.