After a US couple’s love story was posted to New York Times, their wedding announcement has gone viral after being called ‘obnoxious’ and ‘insufferable’.
The profile about Nathaniel Peters, 30, and Barbara Jane Sloan, 31, was published on the website and has since been shared hundreds of times by people ripping on it.
Peters is the great grandson of Maria and George Von Trapp, who inspired the Von Trapp family in the The Sound of Music, and the article includes some bizarre quotes from him about his partner.
The story includes the quote: “Eventually, Ms. Sloan said, the two were spending so much time together that she asked him: ‘Is this fair? We are not too close, right?’
He said: ‘No, we are just two pilgrims along the way, traveling together for a while.”’
The two met a mutual friend’s wedding four years ago, and Peters proposed over a picnic in 2014.
Peters would always sing to himself, usually opera, climb trees and analyse medieval texts,
Peters described his new wife to the New York Times as having an “introverted loveliness about her.”
And when he was asked how he’d describe himself, he chose the word “heady”.
He said: “On the one hand, we are people who enjoy lots of books and investigating particular questions having to do with the human existence, or God, or the nature of beauty. But at least three of us are capable of cooking dinner to Taylor Swift and enjoying that, too.”
When talking about their wedding, he described the 15 different pieces of music performed as “Joyful, rich, lush. Lush like a forest, not like an alcoholic.”
We’ll let you decide whether the whole thing is pretentious or not, but their own happiness is what matters in the end!
