It's Not About the Kids

...it's about the parents.

Looking for some additional examples of Jewish wedding announcements in the NYTimes, a pastime, I read this one and came to a quite belated realization:-

Jill Glassman, Joshua Cohen

Jill Cornick Glassman, a daughter of Sandra R. Glassman and Bill Glassman of St. Louis, was married last evening to Joshua Carl Cohen, a son of Jane Cohen of Florham Park, N.J., and the late Jeffrey S. Cohen. Rabbi James Bennett officiated at the Westwood Country Club in St. Louis.

The bride and bridegroom are directors of Camp Cobbossee, a summer camp for boys in Monmouth, Me.

Mrs. Cohen, 26, was until April a fashion merchandiser in the New York office of Bagatelle, a leather and suede manufacturer. She graduated from the University of Michigan. Her father is an owner of the EDCO Group, a provider of document scanning and storage services in Springfield, Mo. Until 1999 her parents owned the Huntleigh Corporation in St. Louis, a provider of airport services, sky caps and security screening; the bride’s father was the president of the corporation and the bride’s mother was president of the Huntleigh USA Corporation, a subsidiary.

Mr. Cohen, 31, graduated from Arizona State University. Until last year, his mother taught second grade at the Broadway Elementary School in Newark. His father owned Alice Travel, an agency in West Orange, N.J.

It's less about the kids getting married than all about the parents, how wealthy and successful and famous they are.