This was created a few years ago for the wedding of Andrew Enright and Heather Samples. They gathered some of their favorite stories about the attendees of the ceremony and used them to illustrate their connections. I think this is a neat idea for a wedding because it’s not only a good way to seed conversations between previously unacquainted guests but also a fairly accurate representation of the way loosely affiliated people naturally learn about each other.
Side note: this is officially the first entry in my mental index of “neat wedding ideas.”
I also like this because reminds me of Sydney, whose stories often include enough interrelated characters to be good candidates for this type of data visualization.
I’ve seen a few diagrams similar to this before—generally for depicting who has slept with whom in soap operas—but never for weddings, and never this elegant.
