Weddingbee Blog

On our fourth date, I took Mr. Lemon for “dim sum and then some” at my faux-Chinese restaurant, Chin Chin. We started sharing stories at dinner and he reminisced about his picky food habits as a kid. To illustrate the story, he started to talk about a trip to Paris with his parents and his insistence upon eating McDonald’s on the Fourth of July. He started to remark about how horrible his request truly was, as it was his parent’s anniversary, when my mouth dropped to the ground in shock.

You see, we’d already shared a ridiculous number of these similarities in our earlier three dates (left knee surgery, former lives as costumed characters, public policy, etc.) and this one was just too silly to believe. MY parents were also married on July 4th… just five years after his parents wed. I’d yet to meet anyone who shared my parent’s anniversary, and most people just figured my family to be ridiculously patriotic because of it. In reality, for both sets of our parents, it was convenience. The church was free that day and everyone could make it to the wedding due to the holiday!

After Mr. Lemon proposed, he immediately said we should get married on July 4th…which happens to fall on a Wednesday. I’m pretty sure that Wednesday is the single most unpopular and inconvenient day for a wedding, so I nixed that idea quite quickly. (In boy logic, it was never that unreasonable…*sigh*) So, I looked at that following Saturday and … 07/07/07?

What could be cooler than that? We get to honor our parents by celebrating their anniversary just days before we get married, and we get our own twist on the fun date! The popularity of the date doesn’t take away from our reasons in choosing it, and so far it’s been fun to be a part of the mass hysteria around the date!