Wordless Wednesday Wedding
Many Chinese couples are planning to get married on Oct. 1, 2009, which is National Day in China and will mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, also known as the New China, according to Getty Images. My husband and I also chose an important date for our vow renewal in the United States - Nov. 29, 2008, which was the Saturday after Thanksgiving, a holiday that has always been special to us because that is when we shared our first kiss and decided to become a couple. Before meeting me, the Italian husband had never celebrated American Thanksgiving and now it's his favorite holiday. We've all heard about couples who marry at midnight on New Year's Eve or wait for Valentine's Day to tie the knot. I know a couple who is trying to plan their wedding for Oct. 10, 2010, so the date will be 10/10/10. Indeed, many other couples in China are wedding today, 9/9/09.
The thing about wedding dates is that they should be meaningful to the couple in some way. If your husband is forgetful like a lot of men, it might also help to choose a memorable date. After all, you'll be celebrating your wedding date once a year -- you hope -- for a lifetime. When is your anniversary? Or when would you like to get married if you haven't already gotten engaged and set a date?
What an interesting question…. I think I’d go for September, since I always associate happy changes with that month. And I think I’d plump for the 5th…I’m not sure why. It just seems such a comfortable number to me.
Hm…. now I suspect I’ll have to go look up whether these are considered auspicious or not.
Sometimes wives are just as bad at remembering wedding dates as husbands. We just passed a milestone anniversary, but didn’t check which exact date it was. We just celebrated when it was convenient.
Where I grew up, June is the most popular month to marry because it’s not too hot. We married in mid-July because that was when we could reserve the church and reception place we wanted. Sure, it was over 100 degrees outside, but we never noticed.
We didn’t get to choose. My in-laws picked July 31 (1998) after consulting a fortune teller. That’s suppose to be a good day for us. Some Asians are big believers in bad and good days for getting married.
We’re both born on the same day (but different month), so we got married on the same day of the month. That way, it’s really hard to forget.
September 2nd is our anniversary. We were married on a Wednesday evening 22 years ago. I remember wanting to wed on December 13th but my husband was concerned that weather in winter might be an issue for his aging mother who would be flying in for the ceremony so I caved and we had a fall wedding instead. It may have been her suggestion to marry on a Wednesday. Funny, I’m not sure. We waited until the following summer to go on our honeymoon. We spent almost two weeks in China!
I Think April 1st would make an ideal wedding date
No fooling, because that way it would take more than a single ceremony to keep a couple bonded and would require a daily renewal of vows.
The first time I got married, we choose one of my DH’s sister’s birthdays as our date because she was the only one in his family who was not going to be able to make it to the ceremony.
My anniversary is in December. Around here, you can get married in a hot air balloon floating over Lake Tahoe.
My husband’s terrible at remembering our anniversary. He never even remembers his own birthday, though, so I don’t take it personally.
I knew I would never remember my wedding date, so we had it engraved inside our wedding bands. My husband always remembers, but I have to slip off my ring every June to check the exact date.
Fabulous Picture. I just noticed he is holding her bouquet – how sweet. I Love the flow of the gown