Shopping: If you want to claim something is improper, the onus is on you. I would answer your question by saying that sometimes pictures of people help situations. It’s much easier to feel the Simcha of an engagement if you see a smiling and happy Chassan and Kallah than if it’s just names on a page. Just like a picture adds more to an obituary than the words ever would. Why do newspapers put pictures of relevant people on a story? They don’t just put pretty women to be stared at. They put people who are relevant and add to the ethos of the story (e.g. a mugshot of a criminal or a sad picture of a kid who R”L was in a tragedy and such). Putting up a picture for the purpose of being stared at does not seem like a good thing at all. Putting up a picture of a smiling Kallah so that you can feel extra happiness at her engagement does sound like a good thing to me, though.
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