I'm a simple emigrant and, so to speak, modern

When I read world literature, I wonder why people used to do things one way or another. For example, in Dreiser, people learned news about each other from newspapers. And I always thought, what nonsense it is to print in the newspaper that someone got married or went on a cruise. Moreover, these articles were not only about superstars, as now, but about ordinary mortals. And now, recently, a German girlfriend tells me that she received from her mother a photo from the newspaper of her classmate's wedding. Naturally, with the iconic line "look, all your classmates are serious, they're starting families, and you're still cruising around." But that's not the main thing. The main thing is that nowadays this still happens. Of course, in big cities you won't encounter this, but in small German villages, where the community is quite serious, everyone knows each other, and they are parishioners of one church, they publish similar things. It's like "the news of our church" today, for example, someone got married, tomorrow baptized (although I don't know if they write about that), but you get the gist. Here's such a story, and would you write about your wedding in a newspaper? In "Arguments and Facts," for example :) #holidays