Meaning behind wedding date

This was on my wedding website, we had a pretty special meaning too:

July 11th is special in many ways. When I was 7 years old, my older sister was 11. As a 7 year old, I would get excited every time the digital clocks in the house read "7:11" because it correlated to our ages and rhymed. It doesn't take much to entertain a 7 year old. It became a family thing to shout "711, 711, 711" every time someone saw that time and as I grew up 711 became my favorite number. Then when I was 21 I met DH, and he asked me to be his girlfriend on July 11, 2010 - 7/11. At the time I thought that maybe it was fate, and that if everything worked out then God had a pretty awesome sense of humor. Well as we know, things did work out so in 2015 me and DH entered our married life on 7/11, our 5 year anniversary. The 7 year old inside me can't believe how amazing it all came together!

ETA: We also were extremely lucky that 7/11 was a Saturday!

We knew we were either going to choose something that had meaning to us or our parents. We chose 10-16-15 because it is 6 years to the day that we met (on a Friday too). We already celebrated that day so it just made sense to us.

I know a lot of people just get married on any day that is available, nothing wrong with that but we both didn't want that. It was something we felt strongly about.

There's not as much meaning behind our date as OP and Happy in Hawaii! LOL FH asked me to marry him at our house warming party on the 4th of Jul. We decided on a date two years from then, and the closest weekend date to the 4th was the 2nd, which is a Sunday. Bam... there it is.

7/22/17 will be our 15th dating anniversary. We originally thought we'd get married at an 'off-peak' time of year, but when I saw our anniversary fell on a Saturday in 2017, it just made sense. Plus, 15 years!

There is zero meaning behind our date. We do an annual Disney trip. We normally go sometime between the middle of September and the beginning of November to avoid crowds. We're planning to stop by Disneyland on the to and/or from our honeymoon in Hawaii. So, we needed a wedding date that fit into our Disney schedule. I ruled out Oct. and Nov. for weather reasons. That's it.

Umm, our date is because it was the only Friday left available this fall at the church and venue. Voila! And we're going to MAKE that date special because it's our wedding day!

September 16 is Mexican Independence Day- which I learned on a job site many years ago in some random but very interesting conversation with a laborer who was on the job. It always stuck with (one of those random factoids you hold on to mentally) And it just so happened we had a come to jesus talk about our relationship on the 15th- the morning of the 16th- we were both leaving for the day (him for the week) and we pulled up to a light and I jumped out of my truck ran back to him and kissed him through the window and said THERE_ now it's official- today's the day.

And we both agreed we didn't want 2 dates to remember- and Mexican Independence day = Margaritas... so win win everywhere.

Not much meaning when we picked it since whenever we got married would be significant anyway. Originally wanted a fall wedding sometime in September. Venue in season pricing literally triples for September-November. I also have a birthday during the holidays and a lot of family members do too so September was as late in the year as I wanted to go. Didn't really care for winter or spring or early summer weddings. We chose the last weekend in August so it would be slightly cooler (and still not officially football season since this is the south)...and it was! Our first date anniversary was 8/8 but we figured that it would be way too hot then and that's right around school and college start/move in here.

I get it, but I am of the mindset that you don't choose your wedding date based on sentiment, but that you make the anniversary sentimental because of what it is. Our date was chosen based on availability of the VIP and the venue.

None. I wanted an October wedding, it was the only available Saturday left in the month at my top venue.

There was a post that was similar to this the other day. I said something similar to Janeen. Our reasons for picking out date weren't romantic... But we will make the day special.

But our reasons were off-peak cost, and vacation time.

No meaning behind my date...we are both very sweaty people (so cute right) so a summer wedding was definitely out. I had though about May and September because of the great weather, May would have been too soon of a turn-around so we looked at September. Between the venue's availability and the schedules of the VIPs we ended up in October!

@Lynnie. HAHAHA!! "We are both very sweaty people" Had to laugh! People keep asking me why I didn't have a summer wedding because I am a teacher and it would make the most sense. My reasoning is the same as yours. Sweaty person syndrome!

*applause for Janeen* Very well said, I completely agree.

We didn't intentionally pick a special date, it was all dependent on our venue's availability, sports, and the academic calendar, but it is very close to the 1-year anniversary of when he proposed.

I wanted some what of a spring or summer wedding, FH let me choose the date. My mom has been married three times around that time of year & I didn't want to get married on any of her wedding dates. So we picked the first weekend of June. FH loved the date & for some reason reminded him of something. Turns out that something was his parents anniversary lol (he forgot). So next yr we will be getting married on there 38th wedding anniversary in the same spot they got married on FH's grandfathers farm. It has a lot of meaning & his parents had tears of joy that we picked that date even without us knowing. They said it was definite fate

I wanted springtime. DH wanted June. We picked the only weekend in June that we could do. Boom.

Yes we will make our Wedding date very special whether it had meaning behind it or not. My FH was like most of ya'll and was like we will make it special just because we're marrying...But with me it was something I had to compromise with I'm the type of person that if I couldn't have the wedding on our Original Anniversary then it would have to mean something...To each to there own...I believe in fate and hidden messages so we had to choose our date to have a hidden message. Every date that has had something meaningful attached to it is to me more meaningful of course it will be special just because it's our wedding date but I wanted to go back and be able to tell our kids and grandkids the reason behind our wedding date....Congrats to all the brides every wedding day is special was just wondering if I was the only one...

Happy in Hawaii thats cool I've always like that number too it was actually a date we were thinking about too my son was born and weighed 7 lbs. and 11 ounces so every time I here those numbers I think of him

LMac 3/12 is my FH's Birthday pretty cool

We picked ours because:

1. Open enrollment for insurance is around that time

2. The venue was open.