My story: One day in class about 3 years ago i was daydreaming and flipping through my cell phone calendar when i stumbled upon 07/07/07. I thought 'Oh...that's so cute. What a memorable day that would make. If things go well with the boyfriend i shall get married THAT day!' Ever since then everyone around me knew that i had 'picked out' my wedding date. Thanks to my wonderful FH he made sure that he proposed in time for me to go fulfill my dream! But if you look you see that my date is 07/08/07! Yes...sadly and with ALOT of convincing from family and FH, i had to sacrifice for the day after due to budget reasons. Since 07/07/07 falls upon a Saturday, choosing the next day, Sunday, made about a $15-20 per person difference! To those girls getting married on 'MY day' ( )...i am extremely jealous! You are really LUCKY!
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I love daffodils and tulips and all the spring flowers--so I knew I wanted to get married in the spring . But being Jewish, there's a 7-week period of time after Passover that you can't get married, with the exception of 3 days, called the L'ag B'Omer (it pretty much rules out getting married in mid-April to late May, depending on when Passover falls).
We originally wanted 05/06/07, which happened to be a Sunday during those 3 days. It was perfect--the 5-6-7 is cool and 5+6+7 equals 18, which in the Jewish religion is a lucky, significant number. We went to check out our RH on April 30th of this year (which would be just a week prior to when the wedding would be), and it was FREEZING! I thought, as neat as it would be to have that date, I don't want to take that chance.
The next Sunday that we could get married was the 27th, so that's what we picked. And as it turns out, I got a new job, and the biggest event of the year (which is one of my primary responsibilities) happens to fall on May 17, and I wouldn't have been able to go on my honeymoon after the wedding had I chosen the 5/6/07 date. Funny how things work out.
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i always dreamed of an october wedding. i wanted an outdoor wedding. so i checked the farmers' almanac and that was the best saturday for the month of october. i should have gone with a sunday. the day after we got married was even prettier than our wedding day. but i can't complain.... yes, i can, but i won't go there
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I originally wanted April 8 because that's our dating anniversary but the next time it would be on a weekend was too far away. We chose 2009 because I will graduate from grad school in May of that year. May and June were too close to graduation, July already has too many anniversaries, the beginning of August is still really hot and any later than August FI's mom goes back to school (she's a teacher). The end of August seemed just right!
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jan 16 1998 is my dating anniversary - i always thought i would get married on that day but i would have had to wait too long to get it on a weekend so we picked the closest saturdays - the saturday after is MLK weekend so i didnt want to do that to my guests so i picked the Saturday before!
I will be on my HM for my ten year dating anniv. which is cool
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We picked 3/24 b/c we love March and we felt the end of the month would be a little warmer.
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Posted by mkc56
We picked 3/24 b/c we love March and we felt the end of the month would be a little warmer.
agree about the warmer part that's why I didn't pick our bf/gf anniversary which is 3/18....i feared the weather but March is unpredictable anyway so prayers prayers prayers we also knew we wanted it in March bc we met, started going out and got engaged all in March
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We tried to get it as close to the school vacation as possible because I have off from work. The church wouldn't marry us on the 31st...because it's the night before palm sunday...so we went with the 24!! Last day before the rates went up also!!
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The place only had April/ June dates. May was out so I had to toss up two dates. One fell the day before my bday and the other had a price difference and cheaper. SO that what we went with.
Worked out GREAT! Now my baby is due on our 1st yr anniversary.
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We originally wanted September 29th. The anniversary of the first time FH said I Love You. But the church was booked. We decided that we wanted to go to the caribbean for our honeymoon so we moved it up to May. My brother is graduating with his Master's on the 12th so that was out. And the church was booked on the 19th. So we went with May 26th.
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well we originally wanted a fall/halloween masquerade ball themed wedding (think more classy ball than creepy halloween) BUT my sister decided she wanted to do october and my cousin had also just gotten married in oct of 2005 so me and FH started to think of something a little different
Now we're having a March, Irish spring romance themed wedding and I have to say I like what we're doing now even better cause it's different from what else has been done in my family!
As far as the actual date goes, we didn't have much choice as the two weekends before the wedding are Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday and we couldn't do it on either of those, which left us with the first or last weekend in March. Figured that the last weekend in March has a better chance of better weather and voila! March 29, 2008.
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We wanted to do it in the summer because we are both teachers. That way we don't have to take 2 weeks off of work for the wedding and the honeymoon. At first we said May...and we'd wait till the summer for the honeymoon..but we both wnated to go on the honeymoon right after the wedding so we decided July was best. The date we chose is also 1 week before my birthday...we had the option for the 21st or the 28th...my brithday is on the 27th....we chose the 21st just so the 2 celebrations would be seperate. I'll be on my honeymoon on my birthday!!
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March was cheap and I wanted it towards the end to avoid possible snow!!! lololol XOXO Kitty
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Posted by glass012
My story: One day in class about 3 years ago i was daydreaming and flipping through my cell phone calendar when i stumbled upon 07/07/07. I thought 'Oh...that's so cute. What a memorable day that would make. If things go well with the boyfriend i shall get married THAT day!' Ever since then everyone around me knew that i had 'picked out' my wedding date. Thanks to my wonderful FH he made sure that he proposed in time for me to go fulfill my dream! But if you look you see that my date is 07/08/07! Yes...sadly and with ALOT of convincing from family and FH, i had to sacrifice for the day after due to budget reasons. Since 07/07/07 falls upon a Saturday, choosing the next day, Sunday, made about a $15-20 per person difference! To those girls getting married on 'MY day' ( )...i am extremely jealous! You are really LUCKY!
I almost have the same story. We were think summer, b/c I would have plenty of vacation by then. I was (also) going through my phone calendar for Saturdays and came across 7/7/07. I NEVER in a million years thought it would be so popular. But everyone reminds me of it all of the time
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Couldn't do a st patricks wedding in 07 (couldn't afford to get married that fast) so we moved it till 08 but it fell on a monday so we did it a day before.
Always wanted a semi-holiday themed wedding in order to incorporate the colors. It was St. Pats or Halloween and fh perfered the St. pats as well as i did.
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our date is july 21, 2007. fh proposed on july 21, 2005 and said that this date falls on a saturday in 2007. so fh picked it and planned ahead since we decided way before getting engaged, that we would have a 2 year engagement.....2 years right down to the day!
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In a very unromantic, yet practical matter, we decided how much we wanted to spend on the wedding, then calculated how long it would take to save enough to get to that figure based on what we already had, and then picked the closest Sunday to a Monday holiday.
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I always wanted a Christmas wedding. I love that time of the year, with the tree and lights and flowers, so we had 4 weeks to pick from. We wanted to be home from our honeymoon with our family for our first Christmas, so that only gave us 2 weeks to work with. His family comes here for Thanksgiving from Texas, so we did not want to make them travel for Thanksgiving and then again for our wedding, so we decided to get married the weekend that they were going to be here.
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we originally wanted to get married on our anniversary (7/1) but in 2008 that date falls on a tuesday.
since we didnt want to get married on a tuesday, we knew whatever date we picked would be special.
so we picked the firday before, this way we will be able to celebrate our marriage on our honeymoon and we will be gone for our 7 year dating anniversary
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We will be together 5 years on our wedding date.
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I love the Fall and I really wanted to be married in early October. However, my work schedule and the fact that the RH was booked didn't make it possible. Infact most of November was already booked when we went. The person we were working with mentioned Thanksgiving weekend. After thinking about it we thought it was perfect for us. Most people would have off from work and our OOT relatives would be in town for Thanksgiving.
