I mean, you’d think they’d know that just because they call it “their” wedding, they don’t really own it

President Obama’s bizarre marriage-theme fund-raising scheme — where he asks couples to request campaign donations from their guests in lieu of wedding gifts — has been a total flop.

The desperate initiative, dubbed “the Event Registry,” is being mocked by event planners and couples — and shows how desperate the Obama campaign is to keep up with GOP contender Mitt Romney’s fund-raising. […]

So far, “the Event Registry” has been all but ignored on social-media sites — even though Facebook, Twitter and other networks have been a strong suit for the Obama campaign.

“The number of links and stories about the announcement is very low since the news went live on June 22,” said Meredith Klee, a spokeswoman for the social-media tracking firm Topsy.

Her site’s latest data show 1,137 posts on Twitter about the registry.

And only a few hundred links to the registry have been shared on Facebook — even though Obama has more than 27 million fans on the site, according to Topsy. […]

The Obama campaign didn’t return requests for comment.

But wedding industry pros called the ploy tasteless and divisive.

So-called business owners of the wedding industry should watch their back. Obama’s executive pen may have plans for your refusal to cooperate with such a patriotic duty in these Bush-induced hard times.

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