Wether it’s true or not, it just seems in bad taste. The girl probably wasn’t the Homecomming Queen, but she’s not ugly. If anything she looks too smart to bother with the “pretty boy, jock” type.
She looks more like one of the teachers, and I’m not sure if that’s entirely down to the hair and glasses. :dubious: 
And how do you know whether or not he’s a jock? They might’ve met in chess club. 
It is in rather bad taste, but it’s the kind of ‘humour’ where you laugh at it rather than with it. I know why it’s supposed to be funny and what it does to attempt to achieve this, but the end result is, well, laughable.
It’d be tacky if it read THEY got married?!? Then I think it would imply what you read into it- that a less-than-gorgeous girl bagged a slightly-above-average guy. As it is in your link, I read it more as a “those two that swore to be celibate forever got hitched?”… kinda like [sub]shudder[/sub] the end of Four Weddings and a Funeral, where Andie and Hugh’s characters live happily unmarried ever after.
'Course, I could be wrong. It’s happened before.
I don’t find it tacky. I don’t think it’s necessarily saying that she’s ugly. I think it’s saying that it’s apparent that they didn’t hang out together in high school, so it’s a surprise that they ended up getting married. She looks kinda nerdy, and it can be hard for people to let go of their impressions of their classmates, even years later.
I graduated 15 years ago, and two of my classmates who hadn’t dated in high school just got hitched. I was quite surprised. It’s not that either one of them was “dorky” or anything. It was just like a “holy shit! How did that happen??” sort of thing. As it turns out, they just ran into each other at some point, recognized each other, hit it off, and the rest is history.
Just going based on those pictures, the surprise that they got married doesn’t make sense to me. Sure, she’s got glasses and seems to be more serious. But she’s not ugly. And the guy isn’t all that.
But we all know people in high school that were so diametrically opposed that you’d be surprised to discover that they got married. So the ad works on that level.
I pretty much assumed that they grabbed two random photos and made up some text to catch the potential subscriber’s eye. As such, I found it mildy humorous in the ways described by the previous posters. I did not really find it tacky (although I might have considered that angle if the web site was describing a real marriage).
(No sheep were castrated in the composition of my post.)
[Not Another Teen Movie]And a ponytail, and ugh, there’s paint on her overalls![/NATM]
It’s been ten years since I graduated from high-school. Whenever I hear about any of my former schoolmates getting married - whether they married another schoolmate or not - I’m somewhat surprised. Not because I never envisioned them getting married, but simply because I haven’t seen or heard about them in a long time. It’s the same thing if I hear about a schoolmate having a baby, moving to the other side of the world, winning the lottery, or being in a bad accident. It’s news in which I’m personally connected to the people involved.
Anyhoo…
Tacky or not that’s freaking classic!
If they really wanted that ad to work though, they should have had it the other way around. Where the really dorky dude hooks up with the super-hot-cheerleader type.
(Stoopid ad men)
They also use a picture of the same girl by herself with the caption: “SHE’s a model?” so I guess somebody in their advertising department doesn’t find her that attractive.
She also bears a striking resemblance to my oldest niece (except for different glasses).
I hope they got permission to use her pic. And if they did, I wonder if they mentioned in what way it would be used.