Citizen journalism ... with wedding bells ...

Or quasi-citi-j hits the NYTimes, sorta.

You too can submit a homemade how-we-met wedding video to the Grey Lady.

"Beginning Wednesday, February 21, couples who submit announcements to the Weddings/Celebrations pages of The Times will be able to submit their own homemade videos. We ask that these videos focus on the story of how the couples met and ultimately decided to make the relationship permanent.

Please note that only couples whose announcements have been selected to appear in the Weddings/Celebrations pages of the newspaper will have their "How We Met" videos run at NYTimes.com/weddings."

The site goes on to talk about the guidelines for submitting video.

At least they have a vetting process for how the videos will be selected (sort of) - "A Times staff member will review the submission and, if approved, the submission will appear at NYTimes.com/weddings on the same Sunday that the couple's wedding announcement is scheduled to appear." So, who's going to review? And on what criteria?

Is this going to spawn a new industry - "we'll help you create the best video ever to submit to the New York Times"?

I don't know how I feel about this. I know the wedding section is always heavily read and important to a lot of people, and I admit to scanning through it once and a while. And "how-we-met" stories are always popular.

And in a way, I think this process is better than the one currently in place - where videos done by NYT would feature one couple each week. See this week's happy couple.

But, is this where journalism is headed? Are we going to see more of this? Will it work? Or, is it not really journalism but still something that's viable?