Thoughts

Calypso1977

dates were not important to me.  costs were important, and avoiding the season of Lent was a must.  we also didnt want to be engaged forever in order to have a particular season or venue.  based upon my research, the best deals were to be had in january/february/march, so we narrowed it down by january being too soon after teh holidays, most of march was consumed with Lent, so we picked feb, with the only date to avoid being feb 14 (and that fell on a saturday the year we married). 

i think putting your life on hold for a flashy/catchy date or causing yourself undue financial or plannign stress due to date popularity is ridiculous.

beckster5551

I tried at first to have the numbers have some meaning but in the end it was decided when the venue I wanted was free and mafe sure that the Badgers were planning an away game.

salt78

The couple you know is dumb.

1) The date for us was only mildly important. We just wanted to make sure we got married before spring breakers took over the resort. 

2) Candlelit ceremony? Won't the pictures be sort of awkward?

I was half drunk by the time my ceremony rolled around at 3pm. 

mkrupar

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[QUOTE]Oh, and as far as your friends wedding... I kind of think a candlelight ceremony would be beautiful.  But, 10 is not late to me, although it is to lots of people.
Posted by kikibaby[/QUOTE]

I'm with you on the candlelit ceremony, it will be beautiful. I'm not all about the 10 at night after the reception.

mkrupar

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[QUOTE]I think dates don't mean anything.  It's the day you decided to marry the person you love.  I mean, what is more special than that.  I don't mean to sound all... mushy and stuff.  But who cares.  Maybe if I was dead set on a may wedding and my birthday was on a saturday that year perhaps we'd chose that date.  Or if we wanted to get married in November and the 28th (our dating anniversary) was a saturday, then maybe yeah we'd chose a specific date.  <strong>But the whole 10.10.10 @ 10pm thing is silly.  IMO.  It's kind of juvenille or something...</strong> I can't think of the right word.  Trying to hard?  IDK.  I just think it's stupid.
Posted by mandysmear[/QUOTE]

Exactly - and this is an older couple too. That's what makes it even more strange.
 
ETA: I would also like to clarify that these are not friends of mine. They're clients of the place I work. When I work on their event it makes me crings a little each time. The ceremony that late on a Sunday doesn't work for me either. I'm in bed early most nights because I get up to go to the pool by 6am. I would also probably be a little drunk by the time the ceremony rolled around.  

mandapanda78

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[QUOTE]The couple you know is dumb. 1) The date for us was only mildly important. We just wanted to make sure we got married before spring breakers took over the resort.  2) Candlelit ceremony? Won't the pictures be sort of awkward? I<strong> was half drunk by the time my ceremony rolled around at 3pm. </strong>
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brennashae

Our date holds special meaning for us, but only because it's the same weekend (we didn't want to get married on a Sunday so it's not actually the same date) as my parents' wedding anniversary.

TTiger03

I had originally wanted an April wedding.  I always thought I would be married in April, but with Easter and Fiesta (San Antonio 10 day celebrations consuming downtown) all but the last Saturday in April were going to be hard to do.  I gave FI the option of April 30 or May 7 and when we realized that May 7 will be exactly 2.5 years together it didn't seem like there could be a better day.

He also proposed on May 7..... we had picked the day and venue before I had the ring, so it was not really a coincidence.   -- As it so happens, May 7th is also the anniversary of when he started working at his current job.  It happens to be a good day for him and now us.

As for time of day... no, I'm not that crazy.  We picked 5pm.... a nice normal time to start a wedding.

ETA: My sister picked Nov 8, 2008 (yes, if you do the math my FI and I started dating at the RD as the BM and MOH) because she thought the 8's looked like infinities.  I kept telling her it's not the same mathematically, but she didn't care.

Also, my parents were married one day shy of being together one year.  My dad likes to say "Today is our 30th anniversary and tomorrow will be our 31st".  It also happened to be the same weekend as my grandparent's anniversary.