The Meaning of Our Wedding Date
Update: We’re married! And our wedding date story was covered in the New York Times. We’ve also shared our vows as a public promise.
When Coley and I got engaged in late 2008, the first question people asked us was, of course,
Have you guys set a date yet?
We got to talking about dates and initially felt that 09/09/09 would be a good date. We’re not mathematicians nor numerologists but a date like 09/09/09 just has a good ring to it. With the Indian Summers that San Francisco has, a wedding in early September would be perfect. And though neither of us are superstitious, there was the added bonus that “9″ was considered by Chinese people to be a lucky number in weddings.
Alas, 09/09/09 also fell on a Wednesday.
So, at our friend Diana’s suggestion, we looked at 10/10/10 to see if that fell on a weekend. As it turned out, that was a Sunday. Then Diana suggested something which made both our geeky ears perk up:
You could have a binary themed wedding.
Indeed we could.
The next natural step was to determine what 101010 in binary equated to in decimal. Let’s see … 2 plus 8 plus 32 …
42
As in 42—The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.
Perfect.
That’s priceless, Kev. I love it!
I made a reference to the Hitchhiker’s Guide yesterday and was dismayed to see the “geek” didn’t get it. Is there such a thing as being too young to know it? Shouldn’t being a geek require that you have read or at least seen it?!
Happy for you two! xoxo
Fenchurch approves.
That is the Best Wedding Idea Ever.
Not to sound elitist, but you had to explain this to people? As soon as I learned the date, I realized what a nerd you were, on at least two levels (I’m not leaving out the possibility that the date isn’t also the EBCDIC-encoded value of the heart Wingding character).
always remember where your towel is…or the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal will see you
congratulations on setting the date !
PERFECT! Don’t forget to invite the dolphins and the rats!