Committed: The Ties that Bond
with Angella Dykstra
I'm a mom of three, a professional accountant, and an amateur photographer and writer. I am not a marriage expert. But my husband and I take "Til death do us part" seriously, and here I'll be sharing how we keep our marriage strong while we both do that insane work-life juggle.
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Today is November 11, 2011. It is Veteran’s Day in the U.S. (and Remembrance day in Canada) which is a day where we remember those who fought for our freedom. It is also 11/11/11.
According to Brides magazine, it is the luckiest day to get married.
This Friday (11/11/11) is the perfect day of the year to get married—literally. Some cultures believe that a calendar date when all the numbers read the same may symbolize luck and fortune; other people may just think it’s kinda cool. BRIDES estimates that 31,000 couples tied the knot on Sunday, October 10, last year (10/10/10)—10 times the weddings that usually occur on Sundays. This year’s magic date falls on a Friday, which may mean even more celebrations (we’re estimating it will reach 46,000), since everyone will have Saturday to nurse a hangover.
I can see how having a date like that for your wedding would be cool. My sister was born on 7/7/77 and I’ve always thought she had a pretty great birth date.
When my husband and I chose our wedding date, we decided to get married on the May long weekend, and the Saturday of that weekend was the 20th. 20 is one of my favorite numbers (the other one is 11), my birthday is on the 20th (of January) and the year was 2000. It seemed like a pretty good date to me. (One year later we moved into a house with a street number of 20. Weird. And awesome.)
How did you choose your wedding date?
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I wanted February 14. It would have been a Friday that year, and I thought that was perfect - Valentine’s Day, and an entire weekend for everyone to recover! I expected lots of guests who’d have to fly in, so I thought they could fly out on the Sunday and not be so exhausted. Anyway - my mother didn’t like that idea. My sister was still in high school and a bridesmaid, so she pushed me to have the wedding in March, over my sister’s March Break. Even though we paid for our wedding entirely by ourselves, I caved, and we ended up getting married on Saturday, March 22. My sister will only ended up flying in a day or two before our date. :S
I’m not very attached to the date but it worked for us, at the time. Now that I am older, I would definitely make the date when I wanted - not when my guests might like it!
Angela | November 11th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
BTW, 10/10/10 would have been a fantastic date to get married! Plus, in 2010, it fell over Canadian Thanksgiving, and might often fall close to Thanksgiving, giving you a long weekend to celebrate!
Angela | November 11th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Well, when we first started talking about getting married my husband thought maybe we should get married in the fall. I said “MUST BE SUMMER! WE ARE TEACHERS!” The other factor was that his sister was also engaged but hadn’t set a date. We quizzed them and they said they were not going to set a date for the summer.
Heather | November 11th, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Now to finish…
We were clear for the summer, yay! So, before we were engaged, we shopped around for a place and booked the room. We chose the 3rd weekend in July. Initially, I had wanted August, just because. My husband made the (excellent) point that we did not need to be focused on our wedding for the whole summer. Given the energy we put into for the first three weeks of July, I’m glad it ended there. Coincidentally, before we were engaged but after the deposit had been made, my sil announced that they would be getting married the weekend after. Close! But not too close. It all worked out.
I was a little nervous in the days leading up that our summer wedding would be way. too. hot in the non-airconditioned church. The day of our wedding was cool and rainy in the morning and perfectly nice for the afternoon.
The date itself was insignificant, it was all about timing in our vacation.
Heather | November 11th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
We chose ours around our siblings’ schedules. Noah’s sister was working in Haiti and returning at the beginning of November, and my brother’s wife was due with their first baby at the beginning of December. When we narrowed it down, we really only had one date to choose from if we did not want to wait until spring. We chose November 12, 2005. (it’s our anniversary tomorrow)
We originally wanted to get married on New Year’s Eve, but figured N&T wouldn’t want to travel with a newborn. Since we wanted them there, we worked around them.
Mrs. Wilson | November 11th, 2011 at 9:19 pm
My birthday is March 20, his birthday is June 20, and Christmas is Dec 25, so I wanted to get married around Sept 20 in order to evenly distribute the celebrations. (yes, I’m a nerd.) He was working at a college at the time, so it worked better to get married in August before school started. I don’t remember how we settled on the 17th - maybe because it was close to the 20th?
Teri | November 12th, 2011 at 2:22 am
My parents got married on 7/7/78. My mom’s favorite number is 7. She wanted to get married in 77 but she said they weren’t quite ready yet (my dad didn’t have a job at the time).
My fiance and I are getting married 3/3/2012. We were trying to decide and I originally wanted 9/10/11 but he wasn’t amused by the numbers like I was. He then randomly suggested March (which was the month we got engaged) and I looked at the dates and settled on 3/3.
K | November 13th, 2011 at 10:31 am
I wanted 07/07/07, but after realizing that I wasn’t the first bride with that idea ( every venue was booked years ahead of time for that date), we chose June 23, 2007… No particular reason, except I really wanted to be a June Bride…
Angela | November 13th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Angela, I did get married on Valentine’s Day - because we needed a Friday date, and 2/7 was too close to my sister’s birthday. One thing I can say is that it’s impossible to get a table anywhere on that day! We usually go out for dinner but go on the 13th, reasoning that that’s when 365 days have passed anyway…
Dani | November 15th, 2011 at 9:33 pm