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I think we chose a great date for our wedding.
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Don’t you think, ladies? On our wedding date:
1920 - The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1970 - The then-new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nationwide Women’s Strike for Equality.
1971 - The US Congress declares this date an annual Women’s Equality Day.
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Once Mr. Candy Apple and I decided on a date, I figured I should probably Google the date and check Facebook to see whose birthday will share our anniversary. Am I the only person to do this?!
I like to think that my subconscious, feminist self chose this date specifically for the above reasons, and that each time we celebrate our anniversary I will silently cheer on and toast the women who fought so that I could obtain an education. So that I could work in the profession that I do, earn enough to support myself, decide for myself whether or not I will change my last name, and feel a sense of self-worth and empowerment.
Did you choose your wedding date for any particular reason? Were there any sentimental associations with your wedding date? Did you find out later (like me!) that there were fun (or maybe not-so-nice) coincidences with your date?
Our wedding date is May 5th, 2012 which is Cinco De Mayo however we chose it because its 4 weeks after my birthday March 10 and 4 weeks before his June 27… kind of cheesy I know but our anniversary is November 19 which falls on a random week day and would make our engagement longer than we wanted
We’re getting married on 11.11.11 Enough said? LOL We do the whole 11:11 make a wish thing and so when we figured out it was a Friday (making everything cheaper) and veterans day (a holiday for most people) it was game on.
That’s so cool, CA! I have no idea why we picked our date now. I will have to see if anything cool happened on ours.
What is your date?! I am getting married 8/11, too and now I am interested!
After reading your post I totally went to look up historical events that share our wedding date. Apparently the airing of the series finale of Friends counts as one. 
My FI actually picked out our wedding date a year before he proposed. It’s our five year dating anniversary 
Ours was sorta random, but turns out it was my uncle’s birthday. My uncle died when I was three, the same year my grandmother died. Talk about a suckie year for a 3 year-old!
I’m really happy with that date because my uncle meant a lot to me and I still miss him and I cherish all the stuff he gave me. It’s the same with my grandmother.
We chose are date because it made a cool number pattern but after reading your post I Googled ours. Holy crap, we share a date with the Wright brothers first flight!!
Hi Candy, I know someone who chose June 18 because 8 means something like eternal and neverending. Your wedding date shouts Girl Power!
We choose our day because FI wanted to get married in May, I found that the 14th was a saturday, so I picked it because my birthday falls on Nov 14th and then I could remember our wedding date (exactly 6 months after my birthday)! I am not good at remembering dates.
Well after making May 14th be our wedding date I found out that it was the day that my mom and dad were married… But they have been divorced for quite a while now. Bad sign? Then a while after finding that out we found out that it was the same date that my father’s uncle got married, and they never got divorced! So maybe not a bad sign.
I just looked the date up on Wikipedia and May 14 is the date that the first Rugby game is played in New Zealand! (What a coincidence, we are going to New Zealand for our honeymoon)
We were in line at Burger king and I told him we HAD to pick a date because we had been engaged a month and I was tired of people asking. We decided on April because that would give us a year and a half to plan and save and we knew his brother, who is in the Navy, would be able to come then. Plus we knew we wanted an outdoor wedding and being from the South, we needed a month that wouldn’t kill our guest.
Ours is the same day as John Lennon’s birthday. Which just makes me really really happy.
We originally wanted to get married five years from the day we met. We didn’t know the exact date but we had sources to look it up. (We met as his work). We both thought it was sometime in August, but it ended up being September 11th - definitely not the most romantic date. We seriously considered it, but in the end, we didn’t want that heavy of a day for our anniversary.
oo fun concept! Totally googled my date and it’s all bad stuff- plane crashes, hijacks, conviction of serial killers…we didn’t choose for any reason though, just what was available, but I like that when you multiply the month x date, it equals the year!
Fun idea! You have some pretty noteworthy events. So far this is all I got that doesn’t involve death, destruction or boredom: 1985 – The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York … ha ha…
Interesting Fact: On our wedding date, in 1995, Christopher Reeves was paralyzed by falling off his horse IN the city we’re getting married in!
Wow, that’s sad. Especially since Superman is FI’s favorite hero. 
Interesting Fact: On our wedding date, in 1995, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed by falling off his horse IN the city we’re getting married in!
Wow, that’s sad. Especially since Superman is FI’s favorite hero.
I’m loving everyone’s date stories! It’s a fun game, and nice to be pleasantly surprised when you Google the date!
I didn’t realise until after, but our date is my great-uncle’s birthday! He’ll be 90, so he won’t be making the trip out from the UK though.
I didn’t realise it was the day Michael Jackson died until now though….
We chose July 4th…so there will always be fireworks (in one way or another, winky-winky) on our anniversary.
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Mrs. Candy Apple, Princeton Junction, NJ/ Seattle, WA Age and Occupation: 26, Project Editor Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Attorney Engagement Date: May 9, 2010 Wedding Date: August 2011 Venue: St. Joseph's Parish, Seattle Tennis Club About Me: I am a Pacific Northwesterner, born and bred. I have lived in many cities---Santa Clara, Durham (England); Florence; Boston; Princeton Junction---but my heart will always be nestled up near the Cascades and Olympics, which is why we are holding our wedding there. I am a bookworm and a History nerd: I love that my life consists of books, books, and more books, since I work in Publishing! Recently, all waking time not consumed by work and my daily commute has been overtaken by wedding planning. Well, that, and watching Premier-League soccer. There is nothing I love more than a good Tana French mystery, traveling to new places, Anthropologie shopping sprees, Iittala dishware, Kate Spade shoes, impeccable typefaces (think: Archer), and a nice English ale (hellooo, Old Speckled Hen!). Oh, and did I mention my obsession with wedding blogs? Yeah, there’s that too. Join Mr. Candy Apple and me as we prep for our wedding, and, more importantly, our marriage!
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